Senior Financial Functional Consultant - Spend Management - Workday Success Plans

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About the Team

The Workday Success Plans Team is dedicated to helping customers realize ongoing value from their Workday Financials applications after go-live. We design and deliver targeted programs that drive adoption, optimization, and measurable business outcomes across the Workday platform.

Within Success Plans, this role focuses on Workday Financials – Record to Report. Our customers rely on us as trusted advisors to help configure, optimize, and extend their core accounting and close processes, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and efficiency across the financial lifecycle.

We’re collaborative, customer-focused, and passionate about solving real business problems with technology—while having fun and learning along the way.

About the Role

As a Workday Financials (Spend Management) Functional Consultant – Workday Success Plans, you will work directly with customers post go-live to ensure they are fully leveraging their Workday Financials investment.

You will serve as a hands-on functional expert across Spend Management, providing configuration guidance, troubleshooting support, and best-practice advisory services. This role blends deep Workday Financials configuration expertise with customer-facing consulting and enablement, helping customers optimize requisition-to-pay processes, supplier management, and spend controls.

This position is ideal for someone who enjoys working hands-on in the tenant, partnering closely with customers, and helping finance and procurement teams drive efficiency, compliance, and visibility through Workday.

Key Responsibilities

Customer Consulting & Advisory

• Deliver appointment-based consulting engagements (e.g., Office Hours, micro-consulting sessions) focused on Spend Management configuration and optimization

• Partner with customers to understand procurement, supplier, invoicing, and expense requirements and translate them into scalable Workday Financials solutions

• Provide design options, configuration recommendations, and best-practice guidance aligned to Workday standards and internal control frameworks

Configuration & Troubleshooting

• Configure, review, and optimize Workday Spend Management functionality, including:

  • Requisitions & Purchase Orders

  • Supplier Accounts & Supplier Portal

  • Supplier Contracts

  • Inventory (as applicable)

  • Supplier Invoices & Invoice Matching

  • Expenses & Corporate Cards

  • Asset Purchasing (procurement components)

• Configure and review Workday Financials security, including domain security, business process security, and role-based access to support proper controls and approval workflows

• Troubleshoot complex configuration, security, and transactional issues; identify root causes and recommend optimal solutions

• Perform configuration and business requirements reviews, producing clear deliverables outlining findings, risks, and optimization opportunities

Customer Enablement & Adoption

• Design and deliver feature demonstrations, Accelerator Webinars, and enablement sessions focused on Spend Management processes

• Provide one-on-one consulting to accelerate adoption of procurement, supplier, invoicing, and expense capabilities

• Conduct Feature Adoption Tenant Reviews to identify underutilized Spend Management functionality and define targeted adoption plans

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