Senior Financials (FDM) Consultant, State & Local Government

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About the Role

The Professional Services Financials Senior Consultant will be tasked with ensuring the successful implementation of the Workday solution. They will provide Workday product and implementation expertise to their engagements. The Consultant will work with their clients to understand their business requirements and help configure and test the Workday solution. They will take direction and provide status to the Engagement Manager assigned to their project.

• Become a specialist in the Workday Financials product suite
• Lead design sessions for multiple financial functional areas
• Drive client business requirements
• Configure and Prototype the Workday solution
• Demonstrate Workday features to clients
• Support Client with Unit Testing, End to End Testing and User Acceptance Testing
• Work with the client and data conversion team to help convert legacy data into Workday
• Complete the work assigned to you by the Engagement Manager within the budgeted time allocated
• Assist integration consulting team with designing, configuring and testing both packaged and custom integrations
• Learn, understand and advise on Workday’s Deployment Methodology
• Work with Delivery Assurance to ensure compliance with agreed to checkpoints
• Help mentor new Consultants
• Ensure the client takes advantage of Workday best practices
• Identify opportunities to position other service offerings
• Ensure the client is reference-able once they are in production
• Participate in update training, supporting ecosystem and other events that help share one’s product skills with other consultants
• Provide the Engagement Manager with status reports and keep them informed of overall project status

More about Workday for Education & Government:
 

Workday Higher Education Products Overview: 

https://www.workday.com/en-us/industries/higher-education.html

Workday State and Local Government Products Overview: 

https://www.workday.com/en-us/industries/government.html

Workday Financial Management Product Overview: 

https://www.workday.com/en-us/applications/financial-management.html

About You

Basic Qualifications:

• 6+ years implementing Financial solutions.
• Previous consulting experience either as a consultant with a consulting company or an internal consultant.
• Experience implementing Workday, SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, or similar applications
• Experience with at least 2 functional areas:

Financial Data Model (FDM)
General Ledger
Budgets
Accounts Payable
Accounts Receivable
Governmental Accounting
Financial Reporting

Other Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience
• Passion for customer service
• Project management experience is ideal
• Technical experience a plus
• Excellent verbal and written commun