Workday Financials Manager

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About the role

Are you interested in helping clients navigate their digital transformation from where they are now, to where they want to be? Can you uncover their strategic intent that will help shape the use of new technologies to drive new innovative ways of working?

Using Workday, we help clients unlock trapped value across their organisation and drive transformation in service design and workforce experiences.

As a member of one of the world’s largest Workday-certified teams, you’ll be part of a team of professionals who deliver more than just technology. You’ll deliver financial management solutions that help organisations realise 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 organisations across the globe. Accenture has worked with more than 600 clients to deliver Workday deployments to unlock the potential of their organisations.

• Design and deliver future-ready Workday solutions to help organisations optimise their Finance functions and enhance their employees’ experiences.

• Join more than 2,600 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 Financials Functional Lead/Manager, you should expect to lead the deployment or part of the deployment of Workday Financials implementation and have the following responsibilities:  

• Lead the conversations with the clients to gather, understand, and analyse business requirements during the implementation life cycle

• Work with clients to share our Accenture and Workday best practices 

• Provide subject matter support in helping clients making key business process decisions

• Provide guidance and support to the Financials module leads

• Manage the delivery of deployment/ part of the deployment of the Workday Financials solution

• Understand Workday’s Implementation Methodology and use it on all engagements. 

• Ownership of the Workday deliverables and provide regular project updates to the client in governance meetings.

• Participate in Workday certification and update training and other events that help share one’s product skills with other consultants.

• Mentor junior resources 

 
Your skills and Qualifications: 

• Previous Financials consulting or implementation experience 

• Successfully completed at least 2-3 end-to-end Financials implementations  

• Led one or multiple Financials functional areas, including experience in defining how multiple Financials modules work together.  

• Superior communication skills, both written and verbal 

• Stakeholder management

• Existing and current Workday Financials Certifications preferred 

Additional preferred attributes: 

• Ability and willingness to travel to meet project needs within COVID guidelines 

• Implementing Workday Financials with a certified Workday implementation partner

• Experience with pre-sale and sales activities 

• Multiple Workday certifications 

• 3-5 years’ experience in Workday implementations (either as a customer or an implementation partner) 

NZ Working Rights

Preference will go to candidates based in New Zealand with current Working Rights.

Visa Sponsorship Transfer may be available for candidates already based in New Zealand.

At this point we will not be considering overseas candidates unless they already have NZ Citizenship or Permanent Resident status.

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