Workday Certified Financials Accounting Center Manager

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You are…

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. From rapid deployments to entire transformations, you’ll deliver integrated, payroll, cloud-based HR and financial management solutions that put organizations on the fast track to a better way to work.

As a Workday Financials Accounting Center Manager, your primary responsibilities may include:

• Manage teams in the identification of business requirements, functional design, process design (including scenario design, flow mapping), prototyping, testing, training, defining support procedures 

• Formulate overall project planning, budgeting, forecasting and reporting strategies. 

• Develop statements of work and/or client proposals 

• Develop and manage vendor relationships 

• Lead workshops for client education 

• Manage resources and budget on client projects 

• Serve as the escalation point for critical functional issue resolution 

• Provide subject matter expertise to aid in decision-making related to the functional solution 

• Lead, mentor, counsel and manage performance metrics of project staff 

• Conduct working sessions with clients to gather, understand, and analyze business requirements. 

• Architect Workday Financials solution to ensure that all work streams are cohesive and cross-functional impacts are considered and mitigated 

• Advise clients on industry standards and leading practices. 

• Demonstrate design options through the use of prototyping. 

• Understand and apply Workday and Accenture methodologies. 

• Provide the Project Manager with status updates and keep them apprised of overall project status. 

• Demonstrate strong client and stakeholder management to achieve project objectives 

• Ensure the client takes advantage of Workday best practices. 

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

Why should I join the Accenture Workday team?

It’s not just what you know or where you’ve been that propels success at Accenture: It’s who you are, fundamentally, as a person. We prize diversity in backgrounds and perspectives. Whatever your unique qualities, a few key traits should apply: You’re passionate about technology and motivated to apply the latest technology trends. You’re proactive and collaborative; a leader with effective communication skills. You’re driven by new challenges and are motivated to improve. You’re a creative problem solver with the flexibility to navigate uncertainty. You’re focused on the future with a desire to develop inclusive, responsible and sustainable solutions to complex challenges.

Travel may be required for this role.  The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirement