Financials Spend Functional Consultant - Workday Success Plans

Workday Workday · Enterprise · Costa Rica

This role is for a Financials Spend Functional Consultant at Workday, focusing on Workday Success Plans. The consultant will work directly with customers to solve business needs using the Workday application, acting as a trusted advisor. Responsibilities include providing configuration guidance, demonstrations, troubleshooting, and delivering various customer enablement services. The role requires expertise in Workday Financials modules such as Procurement, Supplier Accounts, Banking & Settlement, and Expenses. Basic qualifications include 3+ years of experience with HR/Finance systems and implementation experience. The company mentions being an AI platform, but the core function of this role is functional consulting on their existing application, not direct AI/ML development or research.

What you'd actually do

  1. Conducting research to ensure understanding of customer questions and related Workday concepts
  2. Delivering small scope consulting in response to customer requests; providing configuration guidance, demonstrations, considerations, tips & trick
  3. Troubleshooting product configuration to resolve or provide optimal product configuration to meet customer business requirements.
  4. Clearly and effectively communicating responses and value to customers
  5. Creating and delivering customer presentations on how to use Workday features to achieve business goals (Accelerator Webinars).

Skills

Required

  • 3+ years of experience with HR and or/ Finance systems, including but not limited to Workday, PeopleSoft, SAP, Oracle, and/or JD Edwards
  • 3+ years of Implementation experience
  • 2+ years of software consulting/support experience
  • Candidates need to be fully bilingual in English and Spanish

Nice to have

  • Workday Certification or ability to certify in one of the following: Record to Report, Contracts to Cash, Procure to Pay
  • Ability to gain a thorough understanding of Workday concepts as new features are released
  • Ability to multitask and work on multiple engagements and deliverables simultaneously
  • Strong critical thinking skills so as to understand complex, technical process issues and facilitate/influence decision making
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
  • Bachelor’s degree or relevant work experience required. Advanced degree preferred
  • Travel up to 10%