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Become a Workday Consultant
Become a Workday Consultant
Configure and deploy Workday HCM or Financials end-to-end for enterprise clients.
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Bhavya Z. ★ 5.0
Senior Software Engineer at PayFriend | 8+ years of experience
About this Path
Built for HR technology specialists, functional analysts, and ERP consultants moving into the Workday ecosystem. You will configure core HCM or Financials tenants, master business process frameworks, and learn the reporting tools that make clients self-sufficient. This path targets your first Workday Pro certification and prepares you to lead a workstream on a real deployment.
Path Overview
Intermediate LevelCertificate of CompletionAbout 44 hours to completeEnglish language16+ curated videosLearn online at your own pace5 modules with resourcesGamified & interactive
Path Curriculum
Workday object model: orgs, positions, and workers
Understand how supervisory orgs, job profiles, and positions relate hierarchically.
Tenant setup and workday implementation strategy
Walk through sandbox, implementation, and production tenant purposes and promotion flow.
Security architecture: roles, domains, and policies
Configure domain security policies and assign security groups without breaking integrations.
Business process framework overview
Map client approval requirements to Workday BPF steps, conditions, and routing rules.
Job architecture: job families, profiles, and management levels
Build a scalable job catalogue that supports compensation banding and reporting.
Staffing models: position management vs headcount
Choose and configure the right staffing model to match your client's hiring process.
Compensation structures, grades, and plans
Set up salary grades, merit plans, and bonus plans tied to performance results.
Absence and time-off plan configuration
Create accrual-based leave plans with carry-forward and balance expiration rules.
Report Writer: standard vs custom reports
Build multi-instance reports with filters, prompts, and column groupings from scratch.
Calculated fields and BIRT custom reporting
Write calculated fields using Workday formula language for derived compensation metrics.
Dashboards and worklets for self-service insights
Compose role-based dashboards that surface KPIs to managers without IT intervention.
Prism Analytics fundamentals
Blend external datasets with Workday data in Prism for advanced workforce analytics.
Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB) inbound and outbound
Design EIB templates to load or extract worker, compensation, and org data safely.
Workday Studio and document transformation basics
Understand when to use Studio over EIB and how XSLT transformations work.
Payroll integration architecture with ADP and SAP
Map Workday payroll outputs to downstream payroll system file format requirements.
Workday Activate deployment phases and deliverables
Follow the Architect, Design, Configure, Test, Deploy stages for a workstream.
Testing strategies: parallel, parallel-parallel, UAT
Plan and execute parallel payroll runs that validate data accuracy before go-live.
Change management and hypercare best practices
Build adoption plans that reduce post-go-live support tickets by 40 percent or more.
Workday Pro certification exam preparation
Review HCM Core exam objectives and practice configuration scenarios end-to-end.
What you'll learn
- ✓Configure Workday tenant foundations including org structures, supervisory orgs, and security groups.
- ✓Build and modify business process frameworks to match client approval hierarchies.
- ✓Create calculated fields, custom reports, and dashboards using Workday Report Writer.
- ✓Configure Workday HCM modules including Recruiting, Absence, and Compensation.
- ✓Perform EIB inbound integrations to bulk-load worker and financial data accurately.
- ✓Navigate a Workday deployment lifecycle from requirements through hypercare using Workday's Activate methodology.