Workday Compensation Manager

Accountabilities:

As a Workday Compensation Manager, you will lead final-stage testing and implementation activities to ensure accurate compensation calculations, reliable system integrations, and operational readiness for go-live.

• Lead final integration testing and validation between Workday Compensation and the MAPS crew management and scheduling system.

• Review and validate Workday Compensation configurations to ensure alignment with business requirements and complex shipboard compensation policies.

• Verify compensation rules, union requirements, collective bargaining agreements (CBAs), pay rates, allowances, bonuses, and other compensation elements.

• Identify configuration defects, integration failures, and compensation discrepancies, coordinating corrective actions with the systems integrator (SI).

• Drive the systems integrator to resolve issues quickly and maintain progress toward implementation milestones.

• Support testing cycles, defect tracking, validation activities, and go-live readiness for the planned January 1 launch.

• Partner with HR, HRIS, HR Technology, and Compensation teams to ensure compensation configurations accurately reflect operational and contractual requirements.

• Provide hands-on leadership and guidance to contractors and potentially one or two direct reports.

• Coordinate stakeholders and communicate implementation risks, testing outcomes, and outstanding issues clearly.

• Support the transition to a stable compensation solution for shipboard employees while maintaining a strong focus on accuracy and compliance.

Requirements:

The ideal candidate is an experienced Workday Compensation professional with implementation expertise, a strong HR or HRIS background, and a proven ability to manage complex compensation configurations and integrations. Experience with unionized workforces and collective bargaining agreements is particularly important.

• Demonstrated experience as a Workday Compensation Manager or in a comparable senior Workday Compensation implementation role.

• Hands-on experience implementing Workday Compensation, including configuration, testing, validation, and deployment readiness.

• Strong understanding of unionized compensation structures, collective bargaining agreements, and contractual pay requirements.

• Experience validating compensation rules, pay rates, allowances, bonuses, and other complex compensation elements.

• Proven ability to lead integration testing, identify defects, and coordinate resolution with systems integrators.

• Background in HR, HRIS, or HR Technology, with experience working closely with Compensation teams.

• Ability to translate HR and compensation requirements into accurate system configurations and test scenarios.

• Experience managing implementation activities, coordinating stakeholders, and driving urgent issues to resolution.

• Leadership experience supporting contractors or managing a small team.

• Strong analytical, organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to work effectively with distributed teams and stakeholders in U.S. Eastern Time (EST/ET) working hours.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting shipboard, maritime, cruise, or similarly complex workforce compensation programs.

• Previous experience implementing or managing compensation systems for unionized U.S. workforces.

• Familiarity with MAPS or comparable crew management and scheduling systems.

• International payroll experience, particularly across multiple countries.

• Experience working directly with systems integrators during complex HR technology implementations.

Benefits:

• Remote work arrangement.

• Contract-to-hire opportunity, with an anticipated four-month contract period before potential conversion to permanent employment.

• Opportunity to lead critical implementation and testing activities for a complex Workday Compensation program.

• Exposure to advanced HR technology, compensation configuration, and systems integration work.