Transformation - Workday Manager

About the role

As a Workday Manager within the Transformation Practice, you will help organizations proactively shape and implement their overall strategy and supporting initiatives. Specific to client interaction, you will play a key role in the delivery of engagements and work with chief operating officers, chief financial officers, and other senior client leaders to demonstrate your subject matter expertise as we seek to help them implement solutions in support of their broader strategy and goal of creating value.

Responsibilities

• Aid in full life cycle implementations including planning, design, and build phases
• Responsible for documenting business requirements, system design, and transformational goals
• Configure applications and conduct iterative unit testing
• Create training materials and quick reference guides to support user adoption
• Conduct training classes to prepare end users for deployment
• Provide post-production support
• Manage full life cycle implementations
• Manage resources and budget on client projects
• Manage teams in the identification of business requirements, functional design, process design (including scenario design, flow mapping), prototyping, testing, training, defining support procedures
• Identify business opportunities to increase usability and profitability of information architecture
• Meet or exceed targeted billing hours (utilization)
• Assist practice leadership in creating proposals, budgets, and work plans. Participate in other business development activities as appropriate
• Interview campus and/or experienced candidates

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business, Information Technology, MIS or related field required. A Master’s degree is a plus.
• Minimum of 4 full life cycle implementations of Workday.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Knowledge of software development lifecycles, key metrics and reports.
• Experience with ERP Application Integration & back-end data connectivity applications.
• Experience installing/configuring/implementing Oracle Applications.
• Knowledge of Workday ERP (Financials, SCM, etc.).
• Proven ability delivering complex and time sensitive projects.
• Strong leadership skills: able to conduct meetings and write technically oriented documents.
• Able to work with clients to understand current state processes and define future state processes based on business objectives.
• Able to work additional hours as needed.
• Able to travel to various client sites as needed on short notice.

Pay

The base salary range for this position located in Milwaukee is between $147,000 and $197,000. Placement within the pay range is at Grant Thornton’s discretion, and it is based on multiple factors, including but not limited to, job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, progression within the role, geographic location, and internal equity.

Schedule

It is the policy of Grant Thornton to promote equal employment opportunities. All personnel decisions (including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, training, working conditions, promotion, transfer, compensation, benefits, evaluations, and termination) are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital or civil union status, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship status, veteran status, disability, handicap, genetic predisposition or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.