Workday Solutions Associate (pre-sales) Remote

Strada is a technology-enabled, people powered company committed to delivering world-class payroll, human capital management, and financial management solutions to organizations globally.

With a team of more than 8,000 experts, Strada blends leading-edge technology with human

ingenuity to help businesses across the globe design and deliver at scale. Supporting over 30 years to 1,400 customers in 33 countries, Strada partners with customers at every stage of their journey, to help drive their vision forward.

It’s why we’re so driven to connect passion with purpose. Our team’s expertise in human insights and cloud technology gives companies and employees around the world the ability to power confident decisions, for life.

With a comprehensive total rewards package, continuing education and training, and tremendous potential with a growing global organization, Strada is the perfect place to put your passion to work.

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Workday Solutions Associate

Strada partners with clients to enable organizational transformation through the deployment of Workday, a next generation Software as a Service (SaaS)-based solution.  As a Workday Solutions Associate, you will collaborate with sales executives to understand the competitive Workday landscape and sales pipeline, support scoping efforts to ensure an accurate and appropriate solutions are achieved for customers in a cost-effective manner, and execute Alight’s go to market approach by responding to client RFPs/RFIs. Workday Solutions Associates play an integral role by working with multiple clients across a wide spectrum of industries to address business challenges and needs. At Alight, we are committed to investing in your future by providing the training, coaching, and hands on experience you need to effectively connect with clients and jumpstart your career.

The Role

• Partnering with Sales Executives to gather client requirements and understand their strategic vision

• Coordinating project scoping with Sales Executives, Solution Architects, and Delivery SMEs

• Leveraging Workday knowledge/expertise to complete due diligence and prepare content for sales meetings

• Collaborating with Solution Architects to document detailed system estimates for solutions and offerings

• Supporting Sales Executives and Solution Architects in review of Statement of Work 

• Creating content for RFPs/RFIs and sales presentations including timelines, estimates and scope assumptions

• Owning maintenance and modification of business development tools including content for proposals and SOWs

• Leveraging problem solving skills to manage issues and risks

• Participating in internal Strada initiatives to support innovation and enable continuous career growth

The Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a technical, business or other relevant field of study

• 1 - 3 years of prior work experience

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Proven ability to thrive and excel in a lean, fast-paced, dynamic environment with high performance expectations

• Able to multi- task, work under pressure and meet deadlines

• Focused on attention to detail and accuracy

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Proven ability to learn new tools, technologies, and methodologies

• Ability to work with multiple teams including sales and delivery

• Flexible within the role and displays a willingness to get involved in appropriate tasks as requested from time to time

• Able to demonstrate customer management / service skills

• Self-driven and resourceful to achieve goals independently as well as work well in groups

• Workday HCM or Financials certification preferred

• Human Capital Management, Financial Management, Enterprise Resource Planning software knowledge is a plus (i.e. Oracle, PeopleSoft, Workday)

• If not already a holder of the relevant Workday Certification, successful completion of appropriate Workday Certification(s) is a requirement of the role 

Benefits

We offer programs and plans for a healthy mind, body, wallet and life because it’s important our benefits care for the whole person. Options include a variety of health coverage options, wellbeing and support programs, retirement, vacation and sick leave, maternity, paternity & adoption leave, continuing e