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# Workday HCM Functional Consultant

- **Company:** Guidehouse Inc.
- **Location:** Washington, DC, United States
- **Salary:** $130,000.0 - $216,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Business Process Modeling, System Configuration, Data Validation, Workday HCM, Integration Frameworks, Workday
- **Published:** August 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9085802/workday-hcm-functional-consultant

## About the Role

* An ACTIVE and MAINTAINED TS/SCI Federal or DoD security clearance. Once onboard with Guidehouse, new hire MUST be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN TS/SCI with a COUNTERINTELLIGENCE (CI) polygraph.
 * Bachelor's degree
 * FIVE (5) or more years of consulting or industry experience delivering ERP solutions within HCM including knowledge of the SDCL and/or project methodology with at least TWO (2) year of hands-on Workday implementation and configuration experience.
 * ONE (1) or more years as Functional Leador subject matter expert in Human Capital Management business processes, regulations, and reporting requirements.

What Would Be Nice To Have :

 * Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
 * Previous consulting experience with a consulting/software company.
 * Experience working in Federal Government HCM environments with an understanding of the issues facing agencies today.
 * Experience working with the Department of War and/or Intelligence Community customers.

## Description

* From initial assessments to entire transformations, you'll deliver Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions equipping organizations with the information they need to make better business decisions.
 * You will specifically focus on Human Capital Management with knowledge and subject matter expertise in Workday Core HCM.
 * In this role, you will be responsible for:
 * Leading clients through all phases of their system implementation as the Workday HCM functional expert - including business process discovery, design, configuration, and testing phases
 * Coaching clients during business process design, offering options, risks, and downstream impacts related to decisions.
 * Configuring the Workday system per client business requirements and Workday standards.
 * Timely and accurate delivery of project deliverables and documentation.
 * Collaborating on client integration design, configuration, and testing.
 * Collaborating on client data migrations.
 * Coaching clients in Workday project approach and act as a role model in project tasks, such as testing, data validation, issue management, and communication with project leadership.
 * Proactively communicating project risks and issues to project leadership.


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