Sr. Presales Solution Consultant, Financials - Tech and Media

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About the Team

As a member of our diverse and skilled Presales North America team you will have the opportunity to wear lots of hats and be challenged daily. On a typical day, you As a member of our diverse and skilled North America Presales team, you will have the opportunity to communicate and demonstrate the power of Workday's financial applications to prospects and customers alike. It is this team's job to bring the value of Workday solutions to life and showcase how the role of finance can be transformed. Along with working closely with our sales counterparts, this team also sits at the exciting intersection of our Product Management, Consulting Services, Marketing, and Value Management teams, providing exposure to various areas of the business.

About the Role

Workday is looking for a Senior or Principal level Solution Consultant with Financial Management & ERP expertise to join our presales team, focused selling to customers and prospects in a wide variety of diversified industries including Tech and Media. 

Our team demonstrates the value of next generation SaaS Financial Management Applications to Workday prospects and customers. Through interactive pre-sales discovery meetings, and by leveraging deep Accounting skills and complex Enterprise Software product knowledge, Workday Solution Consultants provide Core Accounting expertise, executive presentations, and Workday Financials product demonstrations, in partnership with our sales team, to customers throughout the sales cycle. Our team works in a highly complex environment that requires curiosity, flexibility, and drive.

Responsibilities include: 

• The delivery of relevant technical product presentations, demonstrations, workshops, and seminars. 

• Creates detailed design and implementation specifications for complex products/applications/solutions

• To assist in the closure of sales opportunities by demonstrating a complete understanding of and resolving questions regarding our solution, services, and training.

• To contribute to the qualification of prospects, proposed demonstration criteria, proof of concept system builds and sales cycle closure plans. 

• Supporting all sales, marketing, technical and channel objectives. 

• To assist sales in the response to RFIs 

• Participate in discovery sessions alongside sales to ask qualifying questions and understand pain points, current business processes, and ideal future state

• Uses in-depth ERP-product knowledge to provide technical expertise to sales staff and the customer through sales presentations and product demonstrations

• Ability to travel 30% of the time

About You

Basic Qualifications - Sr. Presales Solution Consultant

• 5+ years of extensive financial domain expertise

• 5+ of business experience with relevant cloud-based financial management applications (e.g., NetSuite, Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, etc.

• 5+ years in a pre-sales, sales consulting AND/OR implementation role

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance, AND/OR equivalent work experience

• 3+ years working with core accounting concepts (GL, AR, AP, Fixed Assets and Cash Management), as well as industry relevant topics such as billing, revenue recognition, content accounting (e.g., ASC605/606, ASC 920/926)

Basic Qualifications - Principal Presales Solution Consultant

• 6+ years of extensive financial domain expertise

• 6+ of business experience with relevant cloud-based financial management applications (e.g., NetSuite, Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, etc.

• 6+ years in a pre-sales, sales consulting AND/OR implementation role

• Bachelor’s Degre