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 client relationships 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, and devise solutions using analytics, automation, or the latest tools and methods.

You will develop new projects, identify new business opportunities, and build lasting relationships with clients and within the community. You will also mentor and provide growth and development to teams, 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 the 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 review of work.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline (e.g., MIS, Finance/Accounting, Engineering).
• 9+ years working in professional services or industry.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite applications with specific emphasis on Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Workday certification in Workday Record to Report and/or Contracts to Cash is strongly preferred; certifications in Accounting Center and/or Prism are a plus.
• Experience with Microsoft Fabric, Python, and Power BI is considered a strong asset, particularly for data conversion, validation, reconciliation, and reporting activities.
• Strong understanding of accounting principles and financial reporting practices.

Skills

• Passion for building trusted relationships with C-level executives and providing exceptional client experiences.
• Inherent interest in project management and team leadership.
• Promotion of a positive team culture that fosters open communication.
• Creation of development opportunities for others, including training and team improvement initiatives.
• Ability to discover prospective project work through networking and client interactions.
• Excellence in identifying opportunities to integrate product solutions and resources to improve client service capabilities.
• Viewing client challenges as opportunities to add value and translating them into new project proposals and sales.
• Valued contribution to thought leadership and encouragement of knowledge-sharing and collaboration across teams.
• Interest in managing a diverse portfolio of clients across multiple industries.

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).
• Up to 11 paid holidays each calendar year.

Pay

Starting salary range: $142,000.00 - $242,000.00, based on experience, skills, and geographic work location.

Annual bonus target opportunity: 16%.

Estimated total cash range: $164,720.00 - $280,720.00.

Schedule

Protiviti practices a hybrid model, combining in-person work with remote work. The ratio of remote to in-person requirements varies by client, project, team, and other business factors. Work may include local or out-of-state travel based on project and client requests.