Principal Product Advisor, Revenue Management
About the role
The Principal Product Advisor, Financials leads complex, cross-functional initiatives with high autonomy, partnering with senior leaders across Product, Services, and Sales. Depending on the assigned pillar (Core Financials, Spend Management, or Revenue Management), you will provide:
- Domain Strategy: Drive the end-to-end deployment approach and content for your pillar—whether that is Core Financial Management (General Ledger, Assets, Reporting/Analytics), Spend Management (Accounts Payable, Expenses, Procurement), or Revenue Management (Revenue Recognition, Customer Accounts, Contracts).
- Cross-Pillar Foundation: Drive excellence in Banking and Settlement and ensure seamless integration across all financial workstreams.
- Data and Reporting Excellence: Solve for complex reporting needs—including statutory, management, and operational reporting—by building scalable, tool-based solutions.
- Deployment Automation: Identify patterns in implementation challenges and partner with engineering to build AI-driven tools that reduce deployment effort and improve quality.
Requirements
- Experience: 10+ years of experience in enterprise software deployment, financial systems consulting, or a related advisory role within Workday Financials across at least one major pillar (Core Financials, Spend, or Revenue).
- Implementation & Technical Leadership: Proven track record of leading complex, global workstreams and strong hands-on proficiency with the Workday Financials product.
- AI Fluency: Comfortable using AI tools and generative AI assistants to design or enhance implementation workflows, documentation, and training content.
- Strategic Impact: Experience translating deployment challenges and performance data into actionable, automated solutions for an enterprise software implementer.
Qualifications
- Enterprise Software Deployment: Deep experience planning, configuring, and optimizing enterprise financial software deployments, including managing updates, troubleshooting issues, and ensuring alignment with existing infrastructure.
- Stakeholder Management: Skilled at building and managing relationships with senior leaders across Product, Services, and Sales, ensuring alignment on deployment strategy and facilitating clear communication across groups with diverse needs and priorities.
- Solutions Development: Experienced in designing and implementing strategies or systems that solve specific deployment challenges and improve operational efficiency, from optimizing pre-configured content to creating new automation workflows.
- Consulting: Demonstrated ability to provide expert advice and solutions in Workday Financials or comparable ERP domains, including analyzing deployment issues, developing strategies, and implementing improvements that enhance delivery outcomes.
- Business Acumen: Ability to understand and interpret business situations—such as customer financial reporting requirements and deployment patterns—to make informed decisions that improve deployment quality and efficiency.
- Customer Centric Focus: A strong orientation toward understanding and prioritizing the needs of delivery teams and end customers, using their feedback and experience to drive meaningful improvements in the deployment approach.
- Content Development: Experience planning, creating, and managing deployment content, guidance materials, and tooling documentation for use by delivery teams and partners.
- Communication: Ability to clearly and effectively share complex financial and technical information across diverse audiences, from delivery consultants to senior leadership, adapting your style to the situation.
- Problem Solving: Skilled at identifying, anticipating, and addressing deployment challenges, translating patterns in escalations and feedback into scalable solutions.
- Leadership: Ability to guide and influence cross-functional teams toward shared goals without direct authority, fostering collaboration and driving alignment on complex initiatives.
- Adaptability: Comfortable navigating change, learning from setbacks, and finding a path forward when faced with evolving deployment requirements, new product features, or shifting priorities.
- Learning Agility: Ability to quickly learn from new deployment experiences and apply those learnings to unfamiliar situations, staying current as Workday's platform and tooling evolve.
Skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Proficiency with Workday Financials and related technologies.
- Experience with AI and machine learning tools.
Benefits
Our benefits package includes:
- Comprehensive health insurance options.
- Flexible spending accounts (FSA) for medical and dependent care expenses.
- Retirement savings plans, including a 401(k) plan with employer matching.
- Employee assistance programs (EAP) for mental health support.
- Generous paid time off and holidays.
- Professional development opportunities and training programs.
- Discounted gym memberships and wellness programs.
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.
- Primary Location: USA.GA.Atlanta - $158,400 USD - $237,600 USD
- Additional US Location(s): - $150,500 USD - $267,400 USD
Schedule
We combine the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role).