Functional Consultant - Record to Report and Grants - Workday Success Plans
About the role
The Workday Success Plans Team works directly with customers through targeted microconsulting engagements to help solve their business needs using the Workday application. The role involves assisting customers with how-to questions, troubleshooting, and providing feature demonstrations. Responsibilities include conducting research, delivering small scope consulting, troubleshooting product configuration, communicating responses and value to customers, creating and delivering customer presentations, providing one-on-one consulting guidance, reviewing customer tenants, and maintaining product expertise and certifications.
Responsibilities
- Conducting research to ensure understanding of customer questions and related Workday concepts.
- Delivering small scope consulting in response to customer requests; providing configuration guidance, demonstrations, considerations, tips & tricks.
- Troubleshooting product configuration to resolve or provide optimal product configuration to meet customer business requirements.
- Clearly and effectively communicating responses and value to customers.
- Creating and delivering customer presentations on how to use Workday features to achieve business goals (Accelerator Webinars).
- Providing one-on-one consulting guidance to accelerate customer feature adoption (Feature Accelerator).
- Reviewing customer tenants to identify adoption opportunities (Feature Adoption Tenant Reviews).
- Completing and maintaining product expertise and Workday Certification(s) along with familiarity with Workday roadmap.
- Helping drive the creation of new programs to drive customer feature adoption.
Requirements
- 3 years of IT implementation experience.
- 3 years of experience with software consulting and deployment experiences including but not limited to PeopleSoft, SAP, Oracle, and/or JD Edwards.
- 1+ years of Workday Consulting experience or experience as a Workday SME at least one of the following: FDM, Record to Report, Grants.
Qualifications
- Workday Certification, or ability to certify in, at least one of the following: FDM, Record to Report, Grants.
- Ability to gain a thorough understanding of Workday concepts as new features are released.
- Ability to distill complex concepts into understandable presentations for our customers.
- Strong critical thinking skills so as to understand complex, technical process issues and facilitate/influence decision making.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to travel up to 20%.
- Bachelor’s degree or relevant work experience required. Advanced degree preferred.
Skills
- Financial Accounting.
- Accounting Journals.
- Allocations.
- Consolidations.
- Inter-company Processing.
- Period Close.
- Statistics.
- Multicurrency.
- Grants.
- Award Lifecycle.
- Award Budgets.
- Salary over the Cap.
- Award Billing.
Benefits
Our approach to flexible work combines in-person time and remote work. Teams spend at least half (50%) of their time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role).
Pay
The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants.
Schedule
Our approach to flexible work combines in-person time and remote work. Teams spend at least half (50%) of their time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role).
Application Deadline
The application deadline for this role is August 26, 2026.
Equal Opportunity Employer
We are committed to providing an accessible and inclusive hiring experience where all candidates can fully demonstrate their skills. If you require assistance or an accommodation at any point, please email accommodations@workday.com.