Delivery Senior Consultant, Workday Grants

About the role

The Deloitte Enterprise Performance team works on enterprise technology projects, focusing on finance, supply chain, and IT operations to drive performance improvement and digital transformation. We collaborate with leading solution providers and leverage our deep industry expertise to deliver heart-of-the-business solutions.

Responsibilities

• Transition/Ramp-up: Learn grant-related configuration and operating processes, including setup, worktag strategy, charging/costing rules, validations, and reporting expectations.
• Review Compliance-Driven Artifacts: Examine SOPs, control points, audit requirements, and known issues.
• Day-One Surge Support (Hypercare/Stabilization): Triage and resolve grant-impacting issues like incorrect worktagging, charging failures, validation errors, workflow routing issues, and reporting discrepancies.
• Partner with Accounting and Integrations Teams: Address issues spanning posting logic or inbound/outbound data.
• Steady-State Operate (O&M): Provide ongoing incident/request support and problem management for recurring grants issues.
• Maintain Strong Documentation and Traceability: Improve knowledge base to support consistent outcomes.
• Innovate & Optimize: Identify opportunities to improve compliance and transparency, refine charging rules, enhance controls, expand reporting and analytics, and improve process improvements with disciplined testing and stakeholder readiness.
• Functional Scope: Work on grant-related processes in Workday Financials, including grant master data, worktagging/charging controls, grant-focused reporting, and related approvals/security.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• Legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship
• Workday Financial Services Certified and/or Workday Grants Management Certified
• 5+ years of experience in Workday Financials Grants Management module, including award vs funding vs spend, grant lifecycle, budget control, allowable/unallowable costs, and period-of-performance timing
• Experience supporting procure-to-pay transactions coded to grants (req/PO/invoice/expense), including troubleshooting validation and budget errors
• Experience working on triage, issue resolution, and incident management
• Client-facing operational support delivery

Qualifications

• Hybrid Work Model: Operate under a hybrid system requiring residence within a commutable distance to one of the US Delivery Center locations (Gilbert, Lake Mary, or Mechanicsburg) or Geo-Hub locations (Atlanta, Charlotte, Dallas, Houston, and Philadelphia).
• Co-location Expectation: Spend up to 30% of working time co-located at an assigned office for orchestrated opportunities, including projects, practice sessions, training, and Moments That Matter at a Deloitte Delivery Center location, Geo-Hub location, approved site, or project location.
• Travel Requirement: Maximum of 10% overnight travel for client or project purposes.
• Relocation Requirement: Complete the move within 12 weeks from the start date to reside within a commutable distance.