Principal Financial Implementation Consultant

Workday • Chicago, IL

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

Workday’s Functional Financials Consulting team's main purpose is to build an outstanding customer experience by delivering engaging and innovative consulting services to help customers, partners, and employees make the most of their Workday financial system. As a Principal Functional Consultant, you will be responsible for ensuring the successful implementation of Workday's product solutions. You will provide your implementation expertise to our clients while understanding how to best configure and test Workday solutions to meet their business requirements. We are looking for a hardworking, innovative, and collaborative Financials Consultant to join our team. In this role you will ensure the successful implementation of the Workday Financials solution with customers through product and implementation expertise. The ideal candidate for this position should have extensive experience implementing or supporting Financial systems, requirements capturing, configuration, data conversion, and testing. You should be detail oriented, self-motivated, proactive, results-oriented and able to successfully partner with customers and your project team. Be ready to be challenged and have fun! Become a specialist in the Workday Financials product suite

Requirements

• Prior experience implementing Workday as a customer or consultant is a MUST
• A minimum of 7+ years as a customer or consultant in at least one of the following Financial solutions: Foundational Data Model (FDM), Financial Accounting, or Accounting Center
• Passion for customer service
• Proven project management experience
• Functional experience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Business analysis and requirements gathering abilities.
• Ability to learn technology quickly through instruction and self-training.

Nice To Haves

• Experience deploying multiple projects simultaneously a plus
• Ability to travel up to 30% if needed

Responsibilities

• Perform the following on an engagement: understand client business requirements, configure the Workday Financials solution, demonstrate the configurations through the development of prototype systems, assist the client in testing the Workday Financials solution
• Work with the client to help convert legacy data into Workday
• Assist the integration consulting team in helping to configure and test integrations between Workday and third party/custom solutions
• Understand Workday’s Implementation Methodology and use it on all engagements
• Help mentor new consultants
• Ensure the client is referenceable once the client is in production
• Share product knowledge with other consultants
• Provide the Engagement Manager with status reports and keep them informed of overall project status

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed