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Title: Client Lead Workday HRIS Consultant
Contract Duration: 6+ Month Contract with the possibility to turn Perm.
Business Unit: Human Resources Information Systems
Location: Charlotte, NC; Boston, MA; London, UK
Barings is seeking a Lead Workday HRIS Consultant to provide functional leadership across the Workday platform and broader HR technology landscape. This contract position, with potential for contract-to-hire conversion, will support the configuration, optimization, and delivery of Workday solutions across Payroll, Compensation, Benefits, Time Tracking, Absence, Security, and related HR processes.
The successful candidate will combine strong Workday expertise with a collaborative approach, serving as a trusted advisor to the HRIS team while supporting system enhancements, troubleshooting complex issues, and delivering scalable HR technology solutions.
Primary Responsibilities
- Serve as a functional lead and subject matter expert for Workday and HR technology initiatives.
- Provide hands-on configuration, support, testing, and troubleshooting across multiple Workday modules.
- Lead system enhancements, releases, testing activities, and continuous improvement efforts.
- Mentor HRIS team members, providing guidance on solution design, configuration, and issue resolution.
- Partner with Payroll, Compensation, Benefits, HR, and Talent teams to deliver effective Workday solutions.
- Collaborate with technical teams on requirements, integrations, testing, and deployments.
- Support Workday releases, feature adoption, and production readiness activities.
- Perform impact assessments, root cause analysis, and configuration reviews.
- Develop documentation, testing materials, and knowledge-sharing resources.
- Recommend Workday best practices and opportunities for optimization.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of HRIS experience with strong Workday expertise.
- Experience supporting multiple Workday functional areas, including Compensation, Benefits, Time Tracking, Absence, Security, and Payroll.
- Strong understanding of Workday configuration, business processes, reporting, security, and testing methodologies.
- Experience building reports, dashboards, calculated fields, EIBs, and supporting data initiatives.
- Demonstrated ability to partner across business and technical teams.
- Experience coaching and developing HRIS analysts.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
Working Conditions
- Charlotte, NC area strongly preferred.
- Hybrid work schedule with three days per week onsite
This is a contract position and will be paid hourly: $65-75 USD an hour.
Eligible to elect benefits through third party staffing partner.
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Additional Skills
Barings is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer; Minority/Female/Age/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Individual with Disability/Protected Veteran. We welcome all persons to apply.
Skills Required
- 7+ years of HRIS experience with strong Workday expertise.
- Experience supporting multiple Workday functional areas, including Compensation, Benefits, Time Tracking, Absence, Security, and Payroll.
- Strong understanding of Workday configuration, business processes, reporting, security, and testing methodologies.
- Experience building reports, dashboards, calculated fields, and EIBs; supporting data initiatives.
- Demonstrated ability to partner across business and technical teams.
- Experience coaching and developing HRIS analysts.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Charlotte, NC area strongly preferred and hybrid schedule with three days per week onsite.
Barings Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Barings and has not been reviewed or approved by Barings.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k) with company match and a pension plan, noted as uncommon in the industry. Charitable contribution matching further strengthens long-term financial support.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage spans medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance with mental health benefits. FSAs and a fitness stipend broaden health and wellness support.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off provisions cover paid vacation, sick days, holidays, and dedicated volunteer time. Parental, caregiver, and bereavement leave add depth to the leave portfolio.
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What We Do
Barings is a $481+ billion* global asset management firm that partners with institutional, insurance, and intermediary clients, and supports leading businesses with flexible financing solutions. The firm, a subsidiary of MassMutual, seeks to deliver excess returns by leveraging its global scale and capabilities across public and private markets in fixed income, real assets and capital solutions. Learn more at www.Barings.com.
