Business Performance Improvement - Finance Transformation (Workday Financials) Associate Director

About the role

Protiviti is looking for a Technology Consulting Associate Director to join our growing Workday team. As an Associate Director, you'll take a lead role in strengthening our relationships with clients and providing seamless guidance in the completion of engagements. You'll partner with strategic clients to identify and manage risk, develop strategies to solve complex business problems using new ways of thinking, and devise solutions to support client needs through analytics, automation, or the latest tools and methods.

You’ll develop new projects, help identify new business, and build lasting relationships with clients and within the community as an ambassador of Protiviti. You will also mentor and provide growth and development to teams while overseeing the successful completion of project work plans.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage future state design and process improvement projects focused on Record to Report (R2R) and/or Order to Cash (O2C) business functions.
• Provide business integrator support for large-scale Workday Financials implementations, coordinating across client teams, system integrators, and third-party vendors to drive process alignment, organizational readiness, issue resolution, testing, training, and successful deployment outcomes.
• Serve as a solution architect, project manager, and/or workstream lead for R2R and/or O2C during the design and implementation of Workday.
• Manage large, complex Workday Financials implementations.
• Develop Workday Financials and Accounting Center implementation plans, including estimating level of effort, timing, and costs.
• Design and implement Workday, leading and performing requirements definition, facilitating design workshops, testing, data conversion, training, cutover, and post go-live support.
• Establish and cultivate business relationships and a professional network, including with senior executives.
• Pursue business development opportunities and identify strategies to obtain new work or clientele.
• Translate and communicate issues, risks, or challenges to client personnel, including executives.
• Provide leadership and direct supervisory experience of teams, including conducting performance appraisals, mentoring, coaching, oversight, and motivation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline (e.g., MIS, Finance/Accounting, Engineering).
• 9+ years working in professional services or industry.
• Demonstrated experience with Workday Finance implementations.
• Passion for building trusted relationships with C-level executives and providing exceptional client experiences.
• Inherent interest in project management and team leadership.
• Ability to promote a positive team culture that fosters open communication.
• Experience creating development opportunities for others, including training and team improvement initiatives.
• Enjoyment of networking and discovering prospective project work with current and potential clients.
• Excellence in identifying opportunities to integrate product solutions and resources to improve client service capabilities.
• View client challenges as opportunities to add value and translate them into new project proposals and sales.
• Interest in managing a diverse portfolio of clients across multiple industries.

Pay

Starting salary range: $151,000.00 - $257,000.00 (placement dependent upon experience, skills, and geographic work location).

Annual bonus target opportunity: 16%.

Estimated total cash range (base salary + bonus): $175,160.00 - $298,120.00.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverages.
• FSA and HSA healthcare accounts.
• Life and accident insurance.
• Adoption and fertility assistance.
• Paid parental leave up to 10 weeks.
• Short/long term disability.
• Company 401(k) savings and investment plan with an employer match of 50% on the first 6% of contributions.
• Choice Time Off (CTO) for vacation, personal needs, and sick time (up to 20 days per calendar year for new hires, varying based on years of service).
• Up to 11 paid holidays each calendar year.

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