Workday Financials Senior Manager

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Through Transformation Powered by Workday, we help HR and Finance define their strategy, technology and approach to become agile, strategic advisors that drive critical business outcomes and revenue. By automating day-to-day tasks, then uniting and orchestrating the data and planning abilities of Finance and HR in one seamless system, organizations can better align to business strategy and ensure that the right skills and resources are available when they are needed.

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 https://www.accenture.com/au-en/services/workday-index

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 current and future 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 Senior Manager / Director, you should expect to influence and manage deployment or significant part of the deployment of Workday Financials implementation and have the following responsibilities:  

• Align technology with business strategy and goals, work directly with the client or guide a team to gather requirements to analyse, design and/or implement technology best practice business changes.

• Be an expert internally and externally for your deep functional or industry expertise, domain knowledge, or offering expertise, enhancing Accenture's marketplace reputation.

• Serve as Subject Matter expert in digital Finance transformation and advise clients in their Finance technology decisions and strategies

• Solution integrated offerings that enable a client’s digital finance experience through Workday

• Lead the delivery and deployment of Workday Financials solutions leveraging your deep finance and Workday technology expertise

• Participate in and giuide sales pursuits supporting client technology strategies and end-to-end transformation efforts enabled by Workday

• Mentor and guide junior finance consultants

 
Your skills and Qualifications: 

• 7+ years previous Financials consulting or implementation experience 

• Played key roles in 2-3 Financials implementations  

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

• Proven experience guiding high performing teams

• Superior communication skills, both written and verbal 

• Senior Stakeholder management experience

• Existing and current Workday Financials certifications preferred 

Additional preferred attributes: 

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

• 3-5+ years of Workday experience

• 7+ years of previous consulting experience or congruent professional experience either as an internal consultant or with a consulting/software company

• Implementing Workday Financials with a certified Workday implementation partner

• Multiple Workday certifications 

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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