Workday Financial Managing Consultant - Virtual

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The Workday Financial Managing Consultant (deployment) primarily responsible for ensuring timely and quality execution of client deliverables and consulting with clients on Workday projects. Consults without supervision on complex projects, and/or lead Medium Enterprise or Large Enterprise projects depending on domain area(s) specialty.

• Responsible for leading all stages of the project lifecycle for the client, from requirements definition gathering to project planning and implementation. Liaison between clients and the internal staff to ensure effective coordination and delivery of Workday implementations.
• Individuals in this role may be expected to either:
• Manage and guide a team a small team of individuals as well as to take on a lead role within any project in which they may serve as an active participant OR
• Become the lead Subject Matter Expert within the Financials functional area of Workday.
• Work in a fast paced environment that requires tasks to be completely quickly and accurately.
• Use the methodology and processes to implement successfully while remaining agile and flexible to client-changing needs.
• Provide high level of customer service to ensure client is enthusiastic about Alight Solutions.
• Leads projects through all stages of the project life cycle.
• Leads discovery sessions to gather requirements to help refine Workday configuration.
• Analyzes, defines, configures and documents complex business requirements and processes.
• Lead configuration and business process walk-through with the client.
• Build and test Workday and ensure that all requirements meet the client needs.
• Troubleshoot business processes, calculated fields, business logic, file loads and configuration.
• Completes assigned tasks in prescribed timelines consistent with deliverables and asks for support and direction as appropriate
• This role will develop your skills to grow towards a Workday Senior Consultant opportunity.

Required Experience:

• 5 to 7 years previous experience implementing Financials systems. Such experience may include PeopleSoft, SAP, ADP, Oracle E-Business, Ultipro or other SaaS software solutions.
• Previous consulting experience either as an internal consultant or with a consulting/software organization.
• Experience in transforming business requirements into complex system configurations.
• Advanced MS Excel Skills to be used to transform data. (advanced formulas).
• Possesses strong facilitation/presentation skills.
• Understands the scope and details of project plan and is able to identify and communicate the need for resources for tasks or assigned areas of responsibility.
• Understands IT impact to the overall business and the purpose and process of operating plans.
• Prioritizes and multi-tasks, responding with a sense of urgency to immediate needs.
• High attention to detail with innate need to dig in and solve complex issues and thoroughly test solutions.
• Works well in a team, willing to help others and share information to create a collaborative working environment.
• Embraces entrepreneurial spirit in work through recognizing and capitalizing on opportunities to improve the organization.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and to adapt to frequent change.
• Excellent oral and written communications skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to travel up to 50%.
• This role does not support sponsorship
• Workday Financial, Accounting, R2R, certified required. FDM certified a