Trident Consulting is seeking a " Workday Absence Analyst" for one of our clients in " Remote” A global leader in business and technology services.
Title: Workday Absence Analyst
Location: Remote
Type: Contract
Pay rate: $85/hr on W2
Job Summary
We are seeking a Workday Time & Absence Analyst to support Workday migrations and configuration for employees joining the organization through M&A and acquisition activities.
The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience with Workday Time Tracking and Absence, along with direct experience migrating employees from acquired companies into Workday. This role will support international populations across Europe and APAC and will work closely with HR, Payroll, People Technology, integration partners, and business teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Support Workday migration and implementation activities for acquired companies.
- Configure Workday Time Tracking and Absence based on business and country-specific requirements.
- Gather requirements from HR, Payroll, and business stakeholders and translate them into Workday configuration.
- Configure time-off and absence plans, accrual rules, time tracking rules, validations, schedules, calendars, time entry, approvals, and exceptions.
- Support employee migration across Europe and APAC.
Required Qualifications
- 3–5+ years of hands-on Workday Time Tracking and Absence experience.
- Strong hands-on experience configuring Workday Time Tracking.
- Strong hands-on experience configuring Workday Absence.
- Direct M&A/acquisition experience involving employee migration into Workday — mandatory.
- Experience with international Workday implementations — mandatory.
- Experience supporting multiple countries and time zones.
- Experience with relevant international populations, particularly US, UK, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and/or UAE.
- Strong experience with requirements gathering, configuration, testing, UAT, and deployment.
- Experience working with HR, Payroll, IT, integration partners, and business stakeholders.
- Strong understanding of global time tracking and leave/absence policies.
- Ability to work/overlap with US Eastern Time.
- Strong communication, problem-solving, and documentation skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Workday Schedule experience.
- Workday certification in Time Tracking and/or Absence.
- Experience with Workday and Greenhouse.
- Experience with complex accrual rules.
- Experience with time tracking integrations, including payroll and scheduling.
- Experience managing employee history and data within Workday.
About Trident Consulting
Trident Consulting is an award-winning staffing and consulting firm headquartered in San Ramon, CA. Since 2005, we’ve partnered with Fortune 500 and high-growth companies to deliver high-quality talent across technology, engineering, business operations, and professional services.
We specialize in contract, contract-to-hire, and direct hire placements, supporting roles across IT, data & analytics, cloud, cybersecurity, finance & accounting, HR, operations, and more. With a strong focus on hard-to-fill and niche positions, our global recruiting engine enables us to deliver speed, quality, and scale.