Workday Financials Functional Consultant (Projects & Expenses Modules)

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With in-depth specialization in more than 40 industries and an unmatched, global delivery network, Accenture is uniquely positioned to guide its clients in this transformation, tailoring each journey to your specific needs. For more information, please visit Accenture + Workday

About the role

Are you passionate about helping clients transform their finance operations and adopt better ways of working through Workday Financial Management?

We are hiring a Workday Financials Functional Consultant to support clients in designing and deploying cloud-based finance solutions, with a particular focus on Workday Projects and Expenses.

As a member of our Workday practice, you will work with implementation teams and client stakeholders to translate project accounting and employee expense requirements into practical, scalable Workday solutions. You will help clients improve financial control, streamline processes and gain clearer insight into project costs and spend.

Grow your career through leading-edge Workday delivery, continuous learning and a global community of finance, technology and industry specialists solving complex client challenges.

Key Responsibilities 

As a Workday Financials Functional Consultant, you will contribute to the design, configuration, testing and deployment of Workday Financial Management solutions, with primary responsibility across Workday Projects and Expenses. Your responsibilities will include:

• Work with functional leads and client stakeholders to conduct discovery and design sessions, gathering and analysing finance, project accounting and expense management requirements.
• Support clients in making key process and design decisions across project setup, project financial management, costing, billing, expense reporting, approvals, audit controls and accounting treatment.
• Configure Workday Projects and Expenses Module capabilities in line with agreed requirements, leading practices and a clean, maintainable design.
• Design and document end-to-end solutions, including business processes, security considerations, validations, calculated fields, reports and integrations required to support Projects and Expenses.
• Build and demonstrate configurations through prototypes and playback sessions, incorporating client feedback into the solution design.
• Apply Workday implementation methodology, delivery standards and quality controls across all project activities.
• Provide clear status updates to the Project Manager and functional leadership, escalating risks, dependencies and decisions where required.
• Collaborate with Workday Financials, Integration, Data, Reporting, Security and Change Management teams to deliver a cohesive solution.
• Share Accenture and Workday leading practices, contribute to knowledge assets and participate in Workday certification and update training.
• Coordinate the implementation of solutions and support change management efforts.

Requirements

• Relevant consulting or implementation experience in Workday Financial Management, finance transformation, project accounting or expense management.
• Typically 2-5 years of relevant Workday, cloud ERP or finance transformation experience, gained with a customer or implementation partner.
• Experience contributing to at least 1-2 end-to-end Workday Financials or comparable cloud ERP implementations, preferably covering Projects and/or Expenses.
• Experience implementing Workday Projects, Workday Expenses or related Workday Financial Management modules with a certified Workday implementation partner.
• Those with current Workday Financial Management, Projects and/or Expenses certification will be highly regarded.
• Hands-on experience gathering requirements, designing business processes, configuring solutions and supporting testing through to deployment.
• Understanding of project accounting concepts, including project structures, costing, time and expense capture, billing, revenue recognition interfaces and financial reporting.
• Strong knowledge of expense management processes, including expense items, spend authorisations, expense reports, approvals, corporate card transactions, audit controls and accounting.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, analytical and communication skills, with the ability to explain functional design decisions to finance and business audiences.

• Nice to have
• Experience with adjacent Workday Financials capabilities such as Accounting Center, Customer Accounts, Supplier Accounts, Banking and Settlement, Business Assets, Procurement, Reporting or Prism Analytics would be advantageous.
• Experience supporting data conversion, integrations, security, reporting, cutover, change management or post-production support within a Workday Financials program.
• Experience supporting pre-sales and solutioning activities would be highly regarded.

Mandatory Requirements

Candidate must be an Australian Citizen with current or ability to gain Baseline Security Clearance

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