Workday Financial Consultant
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 and integrations landscapes 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 2,700 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 Consultant, you should expect manage the deployment of Workday Financials Modules for Workday implementation effort and have the following responsibilities:
Conduct working sessions with clients to gather, understand, and analyse business requirements.
Provide subject matter expertise on key business process decisions.
Advise clients on industry standards for Workday Financials in order to provide suggestions to achieve clean configuration and streamlined processes.
Design and implement requirements in the Workday Financials solution.
Demonstrate configurations through prototyping.
Understand Workday’s Implementation Methodology and use it on all engagements.
Provide the Project Manager with status reports and keep them apprised of overall project status.
Leverage prior related Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) experience.
Participate in update training and other events that help share one’s product skills with other consultants.
Skills and Qualifications:
Experience in an enterprise financials related role and solid understanding of financial accounting.
Experience with Workday or an alternative ERP (Oracle, SAP, etc) in an enterprise financials environment
Desire to learn deep Workday technology skills along with enhancing your finance functional knowledge required to grow a successful Workday career
Ability to take-on complex problems and resolve through collaboration.
Superior communication skills, both written and verbal
Preferred Attributes:
Charted Accountant or CPA certifications
Current Workday Financial Core Certification(s)
2-5 years’ experience in Workday implementations (either as a customer or an implementation partner)
Experience with implementation of new financials system either as a user or a consultant.
Successfully completed at least one end-to-end Workday Financials implementation.
Ability and willingness to travel within COVID guidelines
All of our consulting professionals receive comprehensive training covering business acumen, technical and professional skills development. You’ll also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialisation. We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialised skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with teammates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.
Preference will go to candidates that have current working rights for Australia or New Zealand.
Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.
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