📖 About this Domain
This domain covers the business processes that drive compensation changes within the Workday tenant. It focuses on how compensation events are initiated, routed for approval, and integrated with core HCM transactions. You will learn the configuration of key processes like Request Compensation Change and its role in managing worker pay.
🎓 What You Will Learn
- You will learn to configure the Request Compensation Change business process, including its definition, steps, and condition rules.
- You will learn to differentiate between various compensation-related business processes and their specific use cases, such as Propose Compensation Change versus Request One-Time Payment.
- You will learn how compensation changes are initiated as sub-processes from primary staffing events like Hire, Promote, and Transfer.
- You will learn to troubleshoot compensation event workflows by analyzing the business process history, transaction status, and security overrides.
🛠️ Skills You Will Build
- You will build the skill to modify business process definitions to add, remove, or reorder steps like approvals and notifications.
- You will gain proficiency in initiating and testing compensation events to validate workflow logic and approval routing.
- You will develop the ability to secure compensation event initiation and approval steps using role-based and user-based security groups.
- You will learn to use reporting tools to audit and track the status of in-flight compensation events within the tenant.
💡 Top Tips to Prepare
- Practice initiating the Request Compensation Change business process for multiple scenarios in a GMS tenant to understand its behavior.
- Memorize the key differences and initiation methods for standalone compensation events versus compensation changes triggered by staffing events.
- Focus on the security configuration, specifically which security groups are assigned to the initiation and approval steps of the business process.
- Review how condition rules on business process steps control the workflow routing based on worker or event attributes.
📖 About this Domain
This domain covers the configuration of compensation eligibility rules to control worker access to compensation plans and grades. It focuses on creating condition rules that segment the workforce for specific compensation components.
🎓 What You Will Learn
- Configure compensation eligibility rules using a variety of criteria fields and logical operators within the tenant.
- Apply eligibility rules to compensation packages, plans, grades, and grade profiles to govern assignments.
- Understand the processing logic and evaluation sequence for condition rules and rule sets.
- Troubleshoot eligibility issues for workers by analyzing rule setup and worker data.
🛠️ Skills You Will Build
- Constructing complex condition rules by referencing different business objects and data fields.
- Structuring and managing compensation packages by correctly attaching eligibility rules to components.
- Auditing compensation configurations to validate that eligibility rules are correctly implemented and functioning.
- Diagnosing and resolving eligibility assignment errors for workers and compensation elements.
💡 Top Tips to Prepare
- Practice the 'Create Compensation Eligibility Rule' task extensively with various worker attributes.
- Understand the functional difference between a single eligibility rule and a rule set with multiple steps.
- Utilize your GMS tenant to test how changes in worker data impact their eligibility for configured plans.
- Memorize the hierarchy of how eligibility is applied from the compensation package down to the plan level.
📖 About this Domain
This domain covers the foundational compensation framework within the Workday tenant. You will configure the core components required for all compensation-related business processes. These components include eligibility rules, compensation grades, and various compensation plans.
🎓 What You Will Learn
- Configure compensation eligibility rules to control which workers qualify for specific compensation elements.
- Create and manage compensation grades and grade profiles with associated pay range data.
- Set up core compensation plans like salary, allowance, and bonus plans.
- Define compensation packages and compensation basis to structure total rewards for workers.
🛠️ Skills You Will Build
- Configure foundational compensation objects directly within a Workday tenant.
- Apply conditional logic using eligibility rules to automate compensation assignments.
- Structure and link compensation components to core HCM business processes.
- Troubleshoot and validate compensation setups using standard Workday reports.
💡 Top Tips to Prepare
- Master the creation and sequencing of compensation eligibility rules as they are fundamental to all setups.
- Practice building compensation grades and grade profiles with localization for different regions.
- Understand the distinct configuration requirements for salary, allowance, and one-time payment plans.
- Use the 'View Compensation for Worker' report to test and verify the impact of your configurations.
📖 About this Domain
This domain covers the extraction and analysis of compensation data from your Workday tenant. It focuses on utilizing the Report Writer, calculated fields, and analytics dashboards. You will learn to leverage Workday's reporting framework to support compensation business processes.
🎓 What You Will Learn
- You will learn to locate, run, and configure standard delivered compensation reports and worklets.
- You will learn to build custom reports using the Report Writer, selecting appropriate data sources and business objects.
- You will learn to create various types of calculated fields to manipulate and display compensation data.
- You will learn to configure dashboards and scorecards to visualize key compensation metrics for stakeholders.
🛠️ Skills You Will Build
- You will build proficiency in using the Report Writer to create advanced, matrix, and composite reports.
- You will build the skill to identify the correct primary business object and data source for complex reporting needs.
- You will build the ability to construct complex logic within calculated fields for specific data outputs.
- You will build the skill to configure report security and share reports with appropriate security groups.
💡 Top Tips to Prepare
- Master the primary business objects for compensation, such as Worker and Compensation Plan Assignment.
- Practice creating different types of calculated fields, as they are frequently tested in reporting scenarios.
- Understand the functionality and limitations of standard compensation reports before building custom ones.
- Memorize how security domains impact report data visibility and the process for sharing reports.
📖 About this Domain
This domain covers the foundational elements of compensation structures in Workday. You will focus on the configuration of salary, allowance, and one-time payment plans. Mastery of these components is critical for managing employee pay data and executing compensation business processes.
🎓 What You Will Learn
- Configure salary and hourly plans, defining their core structure, currency, and frequency for base pay administration.
- Create and manage various allowance plans, including setting up eligibility rules and calculation logic for recurring payments.
- Set up one-time payment plans used for non-recurring payments such as spot bonuses and referral awards.
- Define and apply compensation eligibility rules to control which worker populations can be assigned to specific plans.
🛠️ Skills You Will Build
- You will build the technical skill to create, configure, and modify all compensation plan types within the tenant.
- You will develop proficiency in constructing complex condition rules to manage compensation plan eligibility for targeted worker groups.
- You will gain the ability to manage plan assignments through core business processes like Hire and Request Compensation Change.
- You will learn to troubleshoot and resolve common issues related to plan eligibility failures and incorrect assignments.
💡 Top Tips to Prepare
- Master the configuration of compensation eligibility rules, as they are a critical and heavily tested component of plan setup.
- Utilize your GMS tenant to practice creating each plan type from scratch to understand their unique configuration options.
- Focus on the relationships between compensation plans and other objects like compensation grades and packages.
- Trace how plans are defaulted and assigned during key business processes to understand the data flow within the system.
📖 About this Domain
This domain covers the configuration of compensation-related business process definitions. You will focus on workflows like Request Compensation Change and the Initiate Compensation Review process, including their steps, condition rules, and security policies.
🎓 What You Will Learn
- Configure business process definitions, including steps, actions, and notifications for compensation events.
- Create and manage condition rules to control the routing logic within a business process.
- Secure business process transactions using domain and business process security policies.
- Differentiate the configuration of the Advanced Compensation BP from standard transactional BPs.
🛠️ Skills You Will Build
- Designing and modifying business process workflows to meet specific compensation requirements.
- Applying rule-based logic to automate routing and approvals for compensation changes.
- Administering security for business process steps to control who can initiate, approve, and view transactions.
- Troubleshooting in-flight business process events and identifying root causes for errors.
💡 Top Tips to Prepare
- Memorize the key steps and sub-processes within the Initiate Compensation Review business process.
- Practice creating complex condition rules that leverage calculated fields for precise routing.
- Use the 'Business Process Security Policies for Functional Area' report to analyze security configurations.
- In your tenant, test various scenarios for Request Compensation Change to see how different rules and security affect the workflow.
