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Workday Payroll Consulting Manager

HuronWorkdayChicago - 550 Van Buren
Posted 19 MarFound 31 OctSeen 6 hours ago

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The Posting

Huron is a global consultancy that collaborates with clients to drive strategic growth, ignite innovation and navigate constant change. Through a combination of strategy, expertise and creativity, we help clients accelerate operational, digital and cultural transformation, enabling the change they need to own their future.
Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.

The multi-faceted role you’ve been looking for… Managers play a vibrant, integral role at Huron. Their invaluable knowledge reflects in the projects they manage and the teams they lead. Known for being politically savvy, they build long-standing relationships with clients, while collaborating with colleagues to solve their most important challenges. They plan, shape and deliver technology solutions that deliver results and seamlessly align with client goals, visions and missions. Remarkably versatile, our Managers also spend significant time mentoring junior staff on the engagement team—where they tirelessly share expertise as well as feedback and encouragement. This benefits Huron profoundly as it promotes a culture of respect, unity, collaboration and personal achievement.
Our environment inspires and rewards growth… As a Manager, you have the unique ability to specialize in certain areas of enterprise software products that showcase and employ your areas of expertise while pursuing your “career vision”. Huron is big enough to offer the opportunity and exposure you need for your career growth—but small enough to give you individual attention for your professional development. Every Manager adds to who we are as an organization—and the more you evolve, the more we do. An exciting career experience awaits you where you’ll be challenged to discover your true potential: It’s analytically rigorous… it’s practical… it’s entrepreneurial… it’s intellectually stimulating—and most definitely—it’s career-defining. It’s the Huron way.
We see what’s possible in you and help you achieve it.

Preferred Skills & Experience:

  • Workday certification in Payroll.
  • Prior experience as a Workday HCM functional lead
  • US Payroll experience is a MUST.
  • Experience in Higher Education, Healthcare or with Commercial clients is a huge plus
  • Prior management consulting experience in HR transformation
  • Institutional strategic planning; Project financial management, client executive relationship management and; multiple cradle to grave implementation experience
  • Excellent communication skills - oral and written - and the interpersonal skills needed to quickly to establish relationships of trust and collaboration
  • The ability to train and participate in the professional development of Huron staff in both project management and technical dimensions
  • The ability to contribute on multiple projects of differing scale and duration
  • Strong analytical skills used to translate information from meetings into documentation that can be shared with meeting participants and project teams
  • A desire and willingness to learn new tools, techniques, concepts, and methodologies
  • Willingness to travel when needed

The estimated base salary for this job is $145,000 - $170,000. The range represents a good faith estimate of the range that Huron reasonably expects to pay for this job at the time of the job posting. The actual salary paid to an individual will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to specific skills or certifications, years of experience, market changes, and required travel. This job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s annual incentive compensation program, which reflects Huron’s pay for performance philosophy. Inclusive of annual incentive compensation opportunity, the total estimated compensation range for this job is $166,750- $212,500. The job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s benefit plans which include medical, dental and vision coverage and other wellness programs. The salary range information provided is in accordance with applicable state and local laws regarding salary transparency that are currently in effect and may be implemented in the future.

Position Level

Manager

Country

United States of America

Facts

Source
Workday
External id
JR-0014448
Location
Chicago, United States; New York, United States; Denver, United States
Remote
Hybrid, from the posting
Employment
Full time
Pay
$145,000 to $170,000, stated
Posted
19 Mar 2026
First seen
31 Oct 2026, 05:12
Last seen
2 Nov 2026, 08:26
Status
Not yet added
Posting id
e1ac00fd-fcfc-5f12-978b-227e7ed1c501