Workday Compensation and Benefits Manager

Job summary

Support the design and delivery of Workday Benefits, Compensation, and Job Architecture across a multi-organisation healthcare transformation, including requirements gathering, process design, and stakeholder workshops. Produce programme documentation and support data conversion, testing, change readiness, cutover, and post-go-live stabilisation.

Job details

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.

What you’ll do

Support the design and delivery of Workday Benefits, Compensation, and Job Architecture across a multi-organisation healthcare transformation, including requirements gathering, process design, and stakeholder workshops. Produce programme documentation and support data conversion, testing, change readiness, cutover, and post-go-live stabilisation.

Requirements

Requires 7–10 years of progressive business analysis experience and 3–5 years supporting Workday implementations or enhancements, with demonstrated expertise in Benefits Administration, Compensation, and Job Architecture. Candidates should have strong Workday HCM, documentation, facilitation, testing, and stakeholder skills, ideally in complex healthcare, public sector, or highly unionised environments.

Listed skills

• Change Management · Preferred
• Process Mapping · Preferred
• Business analysis · Preferred
• Requirements gathering · Preferred
• Stakeholder Management · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Workday Benefits Administration
• Workday Compensation
• Job Architecture
• Business Analysis
• Requirements Gathering
• Stakeholder Management
• Compensation Design
• Salary Structures
• Job Evaluation
• Workforce Classification
• Workday HCM
• Process Mapping
• Data Conversion and Validation
• User Acceptance Testing
• Change Management
• Collective Agreement Considerations

Job areas

• Human Resources
• Technology
• Management & Leadership
• Healthcare
• Consulting