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

Protiviti offers a collaborative and inclusive culture where curious individuals passionate about learning can advance. The firm champions leaders who live its values of integrity, inclusion, innovation, and commitment to success.

About the role

As a Technology Consulting Senior Manager on the Workday team, you will lead client engagements, develop strategies to solve complex business problems, and build lasting relationships with C-level executives. You will mentor teams, oversee project work plans, and identify new business opportunities through networking and client interactions. This role involves serving as an ambassador for Protiviti in the market and fostering a positive team culture.

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.
• 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, including developing implementation plans, estimating level of effort, timing, and costs.
• Design and implement Workday Financials and Accounting Center, leading requirements definition, facilitating design workshops, testing, data conversion, training, cutover, and post go-live support.
• Establish and cultivate business relationships and professional networks, 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 supervision of teams, including conducting performance appraisals, mentoring, coaching, and motivating team members.
• Create development opportunities for teams, including training initiatives to improve client and community impact.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline (e.g., MIS, Finance/Accounting, Engineering).
• 7+ years of experience working in professional services or industry.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite applications, with 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 Workday Finance implementations and building trusted relationships with C-level executives.
• Inherent interest in project management and team leadership.
• Ability to promote a positive team culture with open communication.
• 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.
• 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.

Schedule

Protiviti practices a hybrid workplace model, combining in-person and remote work. The ratio of remote to in-person requirements varies by client, project, and team. Work may involve local or out-of-state travel based on project and client commitments.

Pay

Starting salary range for this role is $123,000.00 - $197,000.00, based on a full-time equivalent schedule. Placement within this range depends on experience, skills, and geographic work location.

Eligible employees may participate in an annual bonus plan with a target opportunity of 14%. The estimated total cash range, including base salary and bonus, is $140,220.00 - $224,580.00.

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-term and long-term disability coverage.
• Company 401(k) savings and investment plan with a 50% employer match 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 by years of service).
• Up to 11 paid holidays per calendar year.

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