Business Performance Improvement - Finance Transformation (Workday Financials) Senior Manager

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About the Role

Protiviti is looking for a Technology Consulting Senior Manager to join our growing Workday team. As a Senior Manager, 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 our strategic clients to identify and manage risk, develop strategies to solve complex business problems using new ways of thinking, and devise solutions to support your clients' 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 you serve as an ambassador of Protiviti in the market. You will also be a mentor and provide growth and development to teams as you oversee 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.
• Serve as a project manager over 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, including 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 and implement 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 and coaching, oversight and review of work, coordination across teams, and understanding how to motivate.
• Create development opportunities for others, including participating in the creation and rollout of training, and ways for your team to improve our clients and communities.
• Promote a positive team culture that fosters open communication among all engagement team members.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline (e.g., MIS, Finance/Accounting, Engineering).
• 7+ years working in professional services or industry.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite applications with specific emphasis on Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Workday certified in Workday Record to Report and/or Contracts to Cash is strongly preferred, with certifications in Accounting Center and/or Prism as 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 experiences that translate to additional project work.
• Inherent interest in project management and team leadership.
• Ability to discover prospective project work with current and potential clients through networking, knowledge-building, and client interactions.
• 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 that into new project proposals and sales.
• Valued contributor to thought leadership and encourage knowledge-sharing and collaboration across teams.
• Interest in managing a diverse portfolio of clients across multiple industries.

Work Environment

Protiviti practices a hybrid model, which is a combination of working in person with a purpose and working remotely. This model creates meaningful experiences for our people and our clients while offering a flexible environment. The ratio of remote to in-person requirements varies by client, project, team, and other business factors. Our people work both in-person in local Protiviti offices and on client sites, which can include local or out-of-state travel based on our projects and client requests and commitments.

Pay

Starting salary is based on a full-time equivalent schedule. Placement in the range is dependent upon experience, skills, and geographic work location.

• Base salary range: $131,000.00 - $209,000.00
• Annual bonus target opportunity: 14%
• Estimated total cash range: $149,340.00 - $238,260.00

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 your 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.

Learn more about the variety of rewards we offer at Protiviti Benefits.