Workday integration
Built by a Workday system owner.
For Workday system owners.
Kinnect was born from redesigning position management after inheriting a broken implementation.
We understand Workday's data model because we lived inside it on the client side.
Client-side experience includes
- Slack
- Coinbase
Standard APIs. Workday stays the system of record for workers and positions.
System Owner
Kinnect Founder
- 15+ years in the Workday ecosystem
- 10+ years in client-side roles
- 40+ enterprise implementations
The Challenge
Why Workday Customers Need Kinnect
Workday is powerful, but it wasn't built to govern headcount across Finance, HR, and Recruiting in real time.
Position Management Complexity
Most customers implement position management and spend years cleaning up the mess. The staffing model decision determines your entire headcount architecture.
No Real-Time Governance
Workday tracks changes but doesn't enforce budget controls or approval workflows across Finance, HR, and Recruiting teams.
Disconnected Systems
Your ATS doesn't talk to Workday. Your FP&A tools don't sync. Every headcount decision requires manual reconciliation.
Workday and Kinnect connected: Workers and org structure, inbound to kinnect; Positions and their attributes, inbound to kinnect; Supervisory orgs and cost centers, inbound to kinnect; Hire and job change events, where the connector supports it, outbound from kinnect.
The Solution
Kinnect Sits on Top of Workday
We provide the governance layer that Workday doesn't have natively. Your Workday data stays clean. Your headcount decisions stay governed. Your teams stay aligned.
Technical Capabilities
Deep Workday Integration
- 1
Bi-Directional Sync
Changes in Kinnect push to Workday. Changes in Workday sync to Kinnect. Position creation, supervisory org updates, compensation changes, and terminations all flow both directions in real time.
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Position Management Expertise
The thing most Workday customers struggle with most is position management. We built our entire platform around it. Position-level governance, not just headcount-level. Every position tracked, managed, and governed against budget.
- 3
Workday Security Model Alignment
Kinnect's role-based access controls align with Workday's security architecture. Your sensitive data stays protected with the same rigor your HRIS team expects.
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No Workday Customization Required
Kinnect works with your existing Workday configuration. No custom reports. No calculated fields. No integration studio headaches. We connect through standard APIs and handle the complexity on our side.
Resources
Existing Workday Resources
We've published deep technical content on Workday headcount management
- 01Choosing Workday Position Management vs. Job Management
- 02Ways to Streamline Workday Position Management
- 03Workday Integration Architecture for Headcount Data
- 04Automate Your Workday-Greenhouse Integration
- 05How to Fix Workday Position Management Security Access Issues
- 06Position Management Optimization Toolkit (free download)
See it live
See Kinnect working alongside Workday
Tell us how a position moves through Workday today. We will show one requested, approved, pushed to the ATS and reconciled back to Workday.
- Twenty minutes
- Demo data, shaped by your requirements
- No custom Workday configuration
A Kinnect position request at the approval step, with the approver's required comment recorded against the decision
Workday integration questions
Is the Workday integration bidirectional?
Yes. Changes made in Kinnect push to Workday and changes made in Workday sync back to Kinnect. Position creation, supervisory org updates, compensation changes and terminations flow in both directions, and a requisition can be pushed to Workday from the Kinnect requisition detail.
How deep does the position management integration go?
Kinnect governs at the position level, not just the headcount level. Every position carries its manager, cost center, location, planned hire date, pay band and linked requisition, and its lifecycle from draft through open, recruiting, filled or closed stays reconciled with Workday.
Do we need to customize Workday to connect Kinnect?
No. Kinnect connects to your existing Workday configuration through standard APIs. Setup in the Kinnect integrations hub is credentials, an event-report URL, and mappings for event subcategories and compensation plans. No custom reports, calculated fields or integration studio work is required.
How does Kinnect align with the Workday security model?
Kinnect uses role-based permissions grouped into Workflows, Workday and Protected Data capabilities, and manager and budget owner roles are derived from org ownership rather than assigned by hand. Sensitive data such as compensation is gated behind explicit Protected Data capabilities, so access lines up with what your HRIS team already enforces in Workday.
Can we use Workday Recruiting as our ATS with Kinnect?
Yes. The ATS is a system setting in Kinnect: choose Workday Recruiting or Greenhouse, and the integrations hub adapts. Requisitions created from an approved position are pushed to the configured ATS and candidate movement syncs back into the requisition detail.
What stays the system of record?
Workday stays the system of record for people and organizations, and your ATS stays the system of record for candidates. Kinnect is the governance layer: it owns the plan, the approvals and the position lifecycle, and keeps both systems in agreement so Finance, HR and Recruiting read one number.
Your Workday implementation deserves a governance layer.
Let's talk about your position management setup and how Kinnect can help you govern headcount without rebuilding your entire Workday implementation.