Workday Financials Manager

About the role

The Emerging ERP Solutions practice is all about bringing you the best in cloud-based ERP applications like Workday Financials and Infor. We're here to help transform finance and supply-chain processes, making them more efficient and cost-effective. Our teams use Deloitte's vast expertise to deliver lasting results for our clients. By working closely with CFOs, CIOs, and Business Unit leaders, we provide valuable business transformation and continuous support across various industries.

Responsibilities

• Manage day to day interactions with executive clients and sponsors
• Gain trusted advisor status with customers and client prospects by understanding their business and developing strategies with them to gain tangible benefits to the business using Workday and Deloitte solutions
• May have oversight of multiple workstreams within a project, which includes providing guidance to individual workstreams to help with their overall progress, escalation of risks and issues as needed, ensuring cross-functional activities are coordinated and occurring as needed, assisting with project management activities (or serving as project manager), ensuring deliverables are being developed and will be ready according to plan
• Demonstrated experience as a senior resource defining systems strategy, overseeing the collection and documentation of business requirements, leading fit-gap analysis, as-is and to-be business process designs, conference room pilots (CRPs) functional configuration, testing, client user training
• Client Management: Manage day to day interactions with executive clients and sponsors
• Delivery: Gain trusted advisor status with customers and client prospects by understanding their business and developing strategies with them to gain tangible benefits to the business using Workday and Deloitte solutions
• May have oversight of multiple workstreams within a project, which includes providing guidance to individual workstreams to help with their overall progress, escalation of risks and issues as needed, ensuring cross-functional activities are coordinated and occurring as needed, assisting with project management activities (or serving as project manager), ensuring deliverables are being developed and will be ready according to plan
• Business Development: Develop and maintain contact with top decision makers at key clients; collaborate with pursuit teams; participate and lead aspects of the proposal development process

Qualifications

• 8+ years of consulting or industry experience
• 8+ years of financials ERP project implementations with a minimum of 4 years of Workday Financials ERP
• Full lifecycle implementation experience on 6 or more projects from planning to go-live
• Bachelor's degree or 8 years of equivalent professional experience implementing Workday Financials
• Workday certification or successfully completing relevant Workday certification upon joining
• Ability to travel up to 50% on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve
• Limited immigration sponsorship may be available

Preferred Functional Knowledge

• Demonstrated experience leading the definition of systems strategy, gathering and documenting business requirements, leading fit-gap analysis, as-is and to-be business process designs, conference room pilots (CRPs) functional configuration, testing, client user training within large enterprise environments
• Advanced degree in the area of specialization