Workday Financials Senior Consultant

Deloitte Deloitte · Consulting

This role is for a Senior Consultant in Deloitte's Emerging ERP Solutions practice, focusing on Workday Financials and other cloud-based ERP applications. The consultant will help transform finance and supply-chain processes for clients, working closely with business leaders. Responsibilities include leading project workstreams, gathering business requirements, providing functional design, prototyping, testing, user training, and defining support procedures. Experience with full life cycle Workday Financial implementation and multiple business processes is required.

What you'd actually do

  1. Leads project workstreams, identification and documentation of business requirements and requirements management.
  2. Provide functional design, prototyping (including scenario design, flow mapping), testing, user training, defining support procedures.
  3. Additional duties may include: coordination of schedules, creation of documentation and collateral, creation and execution of test / use cases, configuration of Workday software, assisting with prioritization and sequencing of the workstream’s efforts and assisting project leadership as required.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of relevant consulting or industry experience
  • 2+ years of experience leading workstreams or small teams
  • Workday Financials Professional certification or capability to obtain upon joining
  • A minimum of 1 full life cycle Workday Financial implementation
  • Hands-on functional experience
  • Proficiency in multiple business processes
  • Ability to travel 50%, on average
  • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent professional experience

Nice to have

  • Other leading Cloud based SaaS financial application implementation experience (ie: NetSuite, Fusion Intact, PeopleSoft, Oracle, SAP, Lawson)
  • An advanced degree in the area of specialization
  • Strong functional knowledge around financial systems and processes
  • Proven skills as a team member, team lead or project manager on at least one full life cycle implementation
  • A proven resource in defining systems strategy, developing systems requirements, designing and prototyping, testing, training, defining support procedures, and implementing practical business solutions under multiple deadlines
  • Ability to work independently, manage small engagements or parts of large engagements
  • Willingness to mentor junior staff
  • Committed to gaining exposure to multiple industries
  • Adept at implementing technology-enabled business solutions for clients as part of a high-talent team
  • Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills (MS Visio, MS PowerPoint)
  • Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to exercise mature judgment
  • Ability to collaborate with clients

What the JD emphasized

  • Workday Financials Professional certification or capability to obtain upon joining
  • A minimum of 1 full life cycle Workday Financial implementation