Transformation - Workday Manager

About the role

As a Workday Manager within the Transformation Practice, you will assist organizations in shaping and implementing their overall strategy and supporting initiatives. You will work closely with senior client leaders to deliver solutions that align with their broader goals.

Responsibilities

• Aid in full life cycle implementations including planning, design, and build phases
• Document 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
• Lead teams in identifying business requirements, functional design, process design, 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
• 4-6 years of related work experience in a similar consulting practice or function servicing cross-industry clients at a national level
• 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

This position requires in-person attendance at least three days per week, either at a GT office or client site. The travel percentage is up to 40%.