Workday Financial Consultant

Duration: 8 months (High chances of extension)

Job Description:

• Grants Functional Consultant with implementation expertise in Workday to lead optimization activities including business process analysis, application design and configuration, integrations, testing, report writing, training, operational support. Experience implementing the following Workday business processes is preferred: Grants Management, Labor Costing, Accounting (including the Foundational Data Model), Budgets, Allocations and Customers (Billing and AR).

Responsibilities:

• Acts as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on how to best leverage system capabilities to satisfy specific client needs
• Performs business analysis and composes clear, comprehensive functional requirements
• Diagnose, document and resolve complex application issues from a functional, administrative and operational perspective
• Supports ‘downstream’ integration requirements including Foundational Data Model and trouble-shooting of data issues encountered by internal and external third party applications
• Develop comprehensive system integration, end to end, and user acceptance testing scenarios
• Develop user documentation including Job Aides, Operational Guides, Online Content, etc.

Skills:

• Exhibits a consistently high level of customer service, collaboration and consensus building skills while working with internal clients and/or stakeholders
• Workday Grants Management experience
• Two or more full lifecycle implementation of cloud based applications: including delivery of project plans, estimates, management presentations, and user communications
• Proactive problem solving skills
• Business and system analysis skills
• Finance and Payroll Accounting domain knowledge
• Technology aptitude and learning ability
• High level of accountability and ability to work independently

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Information Technology or related field
• 6 to 10 years of experience working in a Finance Technology or Information Technology environment
• Certifications in Workday Financials preferred