Workday Financials Functional Consultant

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent and innovation led company with 774,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Accenture Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients succeed and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com.Through Transformation Powered by Workday, we help HR and Finance define their strategy, technology and approach to become agile, strategic advisors that drive critical business outcomes and revenue. By automating day-to-day tasks, then uniting and orchestrating the data and planning abilities of Finance and HR in one seamless system, organizations can better align to business strategy and ensure that the right skills and resources are available when they are needed.With in-depth specialization in more than 40 industries and an unmatched, global delivery network, Accenture is uniquely positioned to guide its clients in this transformation, tailoring each journey to your specific needs. For more information, please visit https://www.accenture.com/au-en/services/workday-indexAbout The RoleAre you passionate about helping clients with their digital transformation journey and help them drive innovative ways of working through Workday’s innovative Human Capital Management solutions?We are hiring and we are one of the World’s largest Workday-certified team of professionals who helps our client drive strategic business decisions through technology enabled Human Capital Management SolutionsAs a member of this team, you will be part of a team of Workday implementation experts who deliver more than just technology, you will deliver HR solutions that help organisations realise the power of integrated, cloud-based capabilities that put them on the fast track to a better way to work.Grow your career with leading-edge technologies, continuous learning opportunities and a global community with deep industry expertise that help to solve clients’ biggest challenges.Now is the perfect time for you to join the Accenture Workday team, where you will:Assess, strategize, and manage Workday deployments for organisations across the globe. Accenture has worked with more than 600 clients to deliver Workday deployments to unlock the potential of their organisations.Design and deliver future ready HCM (Human Capital Management) solutions to help organisations optimise their HR functions and enhance their employees’ experiences. Join more than 2,500 professionals certified in Workday, collaborating to drive enterprise-wide transformational projects on a global scale.Expand your Workday skills and advance your career with unparalleled training and professional development opportunities.Key ResponsibilitiesAs a Workday Financials Functional Consultant, you should expect manage the deployment of Workday Financials Modules for Workday implementation effort and have the following responsibilities:Conduct working sessions with clients to gather, understand, and analyse business requirements.Provide subject matter expertise on key business process decisions.Advise clients on industry standards for Workday Financials in order to provide suggestions to achieve clean configuration and streamlined processes.Design and implement requirements in the Workday Financials solution.Demonstrate configurations through prototyping.Understand Workday’s Implementation Methodology and use it on all engagements.Provide the Project Manager with status reports and keep them apprised of overall project status.Leverage prior related Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) experience.Participate in update training and other events that help share one’s product skills with other consultants.Skills and Qualifications:Experience in an enterprise financials related role and solid understanding of financial accounting.Experience with Workday or an alternative ERP (Oracle, SAP, etc) in an enterprise financials environmentDesire to learn deep Workday technology skills along with enhancing your finance functional knowledge required to grow a successful Workday careerAbility to take-on complex problems and resolve through collaboration.Superior communication skills, both written and verbalAdditional preferred attributes:Charted Accountant or CPA certificationsCurrent Workday Financial Core Certification(s)2-5 years’ experience in Workday implementations (either as a customer or an implementation partner)Experience with implementation of new financials system either as a user or a consultant.Successfully completed at least one end-to-end Workday Financials implementation.Ability and willingness to travel within COVID guidelines