Senior Financial Functional Consultant - Spend Management - Workday Success Plans

Workday Workday · Enterprise · VIC, Australia +3

This role is for a Senior Financial Functional Consultant specializing in Spend Management at Workday. The primary focus is on helping customers optimize their use of Workday's financial products, specifically around the Purchase to Pay lifecycle. This involves functional configuration, tenant reviews, customer advisory, and delivering enablement sessions. The role is customer-facing and requires deep expertise in Workday Financials Spend Management. While the company mentions being an AI platform, the role itself is about functional consulting and configuration of existing financial systems, not direct AI/ML development or research.

What you'd actually do

  1. Serve as a functional configuration expert for Workday Spend Management, helping customers optimize requisition-to-pay processes, supplier management, and spend controls.
  2. Perform tenant reviews, configuration assessments, and targeted, micro-consulting engagements and office-hours style sessions to help customers solve specific spend-related business problems using Workday.
  3. Design and deliver feature demonstrations, Accelerator webinars, and enablement sessions to help customers understand and adopt new and existing Workday Spend Management capabilities.
  4. Partner with customers to translate business requirements into scalable, best-practice Workday configurations.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of hands-on Workday Financials Spend Management configuration experience
  • 5+ years of experience with Workday Financials and financial systems
  • 3+ years of customer-facing consulting or advisory experience supporting Procure to Pay processes

Nice to have

  • Workday Certification or ability to obtain a Workday Certification
  • Ability to clearly explain complex Procure to Pay and security concepts to non-technical stakeholders
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to manage multiple customer engagements and deliverables concurrently
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Experience supporting large, global enterprises with multi-entity and multi-currency accounting
  • Ability to travel up to 20%, based on customer and business needs