Medium Enterprise Account Executive - Ocfo

Workday Workday · Enterprise · Pleasanton, CA +9

This role is for a Medium Enterprise Account Executive at Workday, a company that provides an AI platform for managing people, money, and agents. The Account Executive will be responsible for business development and selling cloud-based Financial applications and products to net new enterprise accounts. The role requires experience in selling SaaS/Cloud based ERP, Financial, Planning, or Analytics solutions to C-levels within enterprise accounts and strong negotiation skills. While the company mentions an AI platform, this specific role is in sales and does not involve building or directly working with AI/ML models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Ability to drive a complex sale, operate respectfully in a team selling environment, and have strong project management skills. If you have a stellar sales track record capitalizing on strategic accounts, are a self-starter, and love working in a dynamic environment, then Workday is the place for you.
  2. Initiates and runs sales cycles, maximizing Workday Financial products suite including Accounting, Planning, and Expense Management. You will lead the sales process, negotiations, customer agreements, and closing plans with prospective enterprise accounts.
  3. You will use your experience and consultative selling skills to initiate long-standing relationships with prospective customers at the executive-level.
  4. You will use your extensive experience within Financials and ERP to help drive demand for Cloud Financial Management in the marketplace. You will employ your consultative selling skills to successfully position Workday as a viable alternative ERP Financial solution.
  5. Coordinates, collaborates, and provides direction to various extended team members and sales/services resources. With a laugh or two thrown in!

Skills

Required

  • software sales
  • SaaS/Cloud based ERP, Financial, Planning, or Analytics solutions
  • negotiating deals
  • business-driven discussions with CFOs and their finance teams
  • business transformations
  • complex sales cycles
  • transformational and consultative selling
  • strategy
  • sophisticated negotiations
  • understanding business challenges and create solutions
  • working as part of a team
  • organization and communication skills
  • maintaining accurate and timely customer, pipeline, and forecast data

Nice to have

  • experience in a team selling environment
  • experience in business transformations in medium and large enterprises, preferably across multiple industries
  • An appreciation of the responsibilities and challenges of the Finance function of today, with an interest in co-creating desired business solutions
  • contributing best practices to aid the success of all
  • continuous learning mentality

What the JD emphasized

  • selling cloud-based Financial applications and products to net new enterprise accounts
  • 5+ years of professional experience in software sales
  • 5+ years of experience selling SaaS/Cloud based ERP, Financial, Planning, or Analytics solutions to C-levels within enterprise accounts
  • 5+ years experience negotiating deals with a variety of C-Suite Executives to close opportunities
  • Deep financial product skills and confidence in developing relationships by conducting business-driven discussions with CFOs and their finance teams