Principal Functional Consultant
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Workdays Functional Financials Consulting team's main purpose is to build an outstanding customer experience by delivering engaging and innovative consulting services to help customers, partners, and employees make the most of their Workday financial system.
About the Role
As a Principal Functional Consultant, you will be responsible for ensuring the successful implementation of Workdays product solutions. You will provide your implementation expertise to our clients while understanding how to best configure and test Workday solutions to meet their business requirements. You will ensure the successful implementation of the Workday Financials solution with customers through product and implementation expertise. The ideal candidate for this position should have extensive experience implementing or supporting Financial systems, requirements capturing, configuration, data conversion, and testing. You should be detail oriented, self-motivated, proactive, results-oriented and able to successfully partner with customers and your project team.
Become a specialist in the Workday Financials product suite
Perform the following on an engagement :
Work with the client to help convert legacy data into Workday
Assist the integration consulting team in helping to configure and test integrations between Workday and third party / custom solutions
Understand Workdays Implementation Methodology and use it on all engagements
Help mentor new consultants
Ensure the client is referenceable once the client is in production
Share product knowledge with other consultants
Provide the Engagement Manager with status reports and keep them informed of overall project status
About You
Basic Qualifications : Senior Financial Implementation Consultant
Prior experience implementing Workday as a customer or consultant is a MUST
A minimum of 3+ years as a customer or consultant in at least one of the following Financial solutions : Foundational Data Model (FDM), Financial Accounting, or Accounting Center
Basic Qualifications : Principal Financial Implementation Consultant
Prior experience implementing Workday as a customer or consultant is a MUST
A minimum of 7+ years as a customer or consultant in at least one of the following Financial solutions : Foundational Data Model (FDM), Financial Accounting, or Accounting Center
Other Qualifications
Passion for customer service
Proven project management experience
Functional experience
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Business analysis and requirements gathering abilities
Ability to learn technology quickly
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