Transformation - Workday Solution Architect
About the role
As a Workday Consultant 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
- Aid in full life cycle implementations
- Meet or exceed targeted billing hours (utilization)
- Perform other duties as assigned
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business, Information Technology, MIS or related field required
- A Master’s degree is a plus
- 2+ years of related work experience in a similar consulting practice or function servicing cross-industry clients at a national level
- Minimum of 2 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
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business, Information Technology, MIS or related field required
- Master’s degree is a plus
- 2+ years of related work experience in a similar consulting practice or function servicing cross-industry clients at a national level
- Minimum of 2 full life cycle implementations of Workday
Skills
- 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
Benefits
Grant Thornton offers a range of benefits to support your well-being and career growth. These include:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance programs
- Employee Assistance Program
- Minimum of 72 hours of paid sick leave
- Paid holidays during the internship period
- Discretionary, annual bonus based on individual and firm performance (for full-time employees)
Pay
Details on pay will be provided during the interview process.
Schedule
The position requires in-person attendance at least three days per week, either at a GT office or client site. Flexible work arrangements are available to support work-life integration.