Senior Technical Consultant - Data Conversion

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Workday is the leader in enterprise-class, software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for managing global businesses. Our solutions combine the lower cost of ownership of SaaS with a modern approach to applications. Founded by PeopleSoft veterans Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri, Workday delivers Human Capital Management, Payroll, Financial Management and Worker Spend Management solutions for midsize and Fortune 500 companies.

The Data Conversion consultant works on Workday's deployment projects, with a focus on the successful implementation of Workday’s Data Conversion processes to make our deployments successful. The Data Conversion Consultant works closely with the client's project team as they extract legacy data, partnering to transform the data to Workday standards and ultimately load it into Workday. This role will gain a proficiency in Workday's Implementation methodology, bring technical knowledge to uptake Workday’s tooling, and be a good partner and consultant to our Customers, combining those skills to deliver successful integration deployments.

About the Role

A Data Conversion Consultant will be responsible for ensuring the successful implementation of Workday’s Data Conversion processes on customer projects, helping establish and champion best practices for all deployments.  Workday is looking for a Data Conversion Consultant who has complete project lifecycle experience in a data conversion role.  This role is within Workday’s Financial Services & Insurance (FSI) & Professional Services (PS) industries, and spans both Human Capital Management and Financials domains, experience with all domains and industries is not required, but is a positive.  Experience with packaged HRMS/Financial systems is also preferred.  This position requires a self-motivated, customer-focused professional with strong follow-through who consistently keeps commitments to customers and fellow employees. You will be the primary point of contact for data conversion between the project team and customers.

About You

• Work directly with customers, functional consultants and integration consultants to establish conversion approach, complete migration of configuration and to complete the data conversion / load of customer data into Workday.

• Understand technical data conversion issues, expertly resolve issues and communicate solutions.

• Become a functional expert in one or more Workday functional areas (e.g., HRMS, Payroll, Financials).

• Assist customers with their data extract, explaining the conversion process, defining data requirements, and working with them to accurate data in their legacy systems and prepare for the data conversion cycle.

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