Workday Compensation and Benefits Manager

Workday Compensation and Benefits Manager

Canada

Exciting contract opportunity supporting a long-term Workday HCM transformation across seven healthcare organisations, helping standardise HR processes, compensation, benefits and workforce structures.

Target start: 26 October 2026. Initial contract through 31 March 2028, approximately 17 months, with two potential six-month extensions, subject to confirmation of the overall contract term.

The role:

• Support the design and delivery of Workday Benefits, Compensation and Job Architecture across a complex, multi-organisation programme.
• Lead requirements gathering, stakeholder workshops, gap analysis and future-state HR process design.
• Support benefits eligibility, enrolment and life events, alongside salary structures, grades, ranges, premiums and allowances.
• Develop and align job families, job profiles, classifications, career frameworks and job governance.
• Work closely with HR leaders, Workday functional teams and implementation partners on design decisions, configuration validation and process standardisation.
• Produce requirements, process maps, user stories, operating procedures, test scenarios and executive recommendations.
• Support data conversion and validation, integrations testing, UAT, change readiness, cutover and post-go-live stabilisation.

Requirements:

• 7-10 years of progressive business analysis experience supporting large-scale transformation programmes.
• 3-5 years of experience supporting Workday implementations or post-production enhancements.
• Demonstrated experience across Workday Benefits Administration, Compensation and Job Architecture.
• Experience with compensation design, salary structures, job evaluation and workforce classification.
• Strong understanding of Workday HCM, business processes, configuration principles, security concepts and testing.
• Experience harmonising processes across multiple organisations and managing stakeholders with competing priorities.
• Strong documentation, workshop facilitation and executive communication skills, including process mapping using Visio or similar tools.
• Experience supporting data quality, conversion readiness, testing, deployment and organisational change.
• Experience in complex healthcare, public sector or highly unionised environments, including collective agreement considerations.