Workday Data Conversion Lead

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent and innovation led company with 774,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Accenture Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients succeed and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.  Visit us at www.accenture.com.

As a member of one of the world’s largest Workday-certified teams, you’ll be part of a team of advisory professionals who deliver more than just technology. You’ll deliver HR and financial management solutions that help organizations realize the Workday promise of integrated, cloud-based capabilities that put them on the fast track to a better way to work. 

Grow your career with leading-edge technologies, continuous learning opportunities and a global community with deep industry expertise that help to solve clients’ biggest challenges.

Now is the perfect time for you to join the Accenture Workday team, where you’ll:

• Assess, strategize and manage Workday deployments for organizations across the globe. Accenture has worked with more than 600 clients to deliver Workday deployments to unlock the potential of their organizations. 

• Design and deliver future-ready Workday solutions to help organizations optimize their HR and Finance functions and enhance their employees’ experiences.

• Join more than 3,000+ professionals certified in Workday, collaborating to drive enterprise-wide transformational projects on a global scale. 

• Expand your Workday skills and advance your career with unparalleled training and professional development opportunities. 

Key Responsibilities:
As a Workday Data Conversion Lead, you should expect to lead a large, complex Workday Data Conversion effort and have the following responsibilities: 

• Lead a team of one to four+ Data Conversion consultants on one or more project teams

• Work with clients to understand their data requirements across HCM, Finance, Planning and other operational and analytics domains. 

• Leverage your expertise to recommend the best solution based on the client’s requirements, budget, and timeframe; with the flexibility to adapt the scope as additional needs are identified. 

• Guide the client through facilitated design sessions and data configuration decisions based on best practices and an understanding of the customer’s unique business requirements at all stages of the project. 

• Regularly engage and support the client through all phases of the project, ensuring a smooth transfer from legacy systems to Workday. 

• Support end to end data solutions from acquisition, cleansing, transformation, load and certainly not least reconciliation. 

• Actively engage with key Accenture and client stakeholders 

• Manage onshore and offshore data teams. 

• Mentor other consultants and analysts, including providing support for shadow assignments. 

• Actively participate in update training and internal opportunities to share skills and learnings with others within the organization. 

• Maintain up to date knowledge of Workday and Accenture tools and accelerators. 

• Demonstrate strong client and stakeholder management to achieve project objectives 

• Support and drive innovation through the creation of new industry leading methods and assets  

•  Be the driving force behind business and technology transformation projects

• Define requirements and create functional and/or technical specifications

• Support proof of concepts, estimates, and conceptual designs

Basic Qualifications:

• 2+ years’ Workday experience

• 5+ years’ previous consulting experience or congruent professional experience, ideally in data analytics or data conversion in an enterprise platform context (SAP, Oracle, Salesforce) including 1 or more of the following: 

• Database schemas 

• Data architecture principles 

• Data taxonomies 

• Advanced proficiency in Data management and Integration

• Advanced proficiency in Workday Data Mapping & Conversions

• Data cleansing

• Existing and current Workday Data related certification 

• Experience in HRIS or Finance fields with Workday related experience in data migration from SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, or similar applications 

• Deep Experience with XML, XSD, XSLT or XPath and ETL tools (e.g. Clover, Informatica)

• People Management experience

• Ability and willingness to travel

Preferred Skills:

• Keen understanding and demonstration of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

• Demonstrated experience in Reporting/Analytics 

• Consulting-based leadership experience on specialized projects with deep, overall knowledge of information systems

• Ability to lead teams of consultants and clients to reach the goals around data conversion

• Self-starter with proven ability to work within a team-oriented environment

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and to adapt to frequent change

• Demonstrated ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment

• Demonstrated experience with Excel, Visio, MS Project (or equivalent) and PowerPoint

• Superior communication (both written and oral) effectiveness with project leadership

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent and innovation led company with 738,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Accenture Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients succeed and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.  Visit us at www.accenture.com. 
 
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