Senior Manager

Must have skills: Workday Finance Implementation

Good to have skills: Workday Finance Implementation

Experience: 15-18 years

Educational Qualification: MBA(Finance) or CA or CMA

Job Summary:

• Have been part of at least 6 end to end Workday Implementations in Financials & Human Capital Management including Accounting & Finance, Audit & Internal Controls, Close Consolidation, Revenue Management, Expense etc.
• Understand the roadmap for Workday and become a trusted advisor for clients in driving their Workday adoption.
• Have experience in defining a Business Case for Transformations and RoI calculations.
• Have worked in the capacity of Solution Architect / Design Authority in Past and have done lot of advisory work for ERP’s for e.g. Product selection, Value realization, Fit Gap Assessment etc.
• Work closely with clients to understand their issues, define IT strategies, architecture solutions, win buy-in for your recommendations.
• Drive sales pipeline and independently own proposals related to Finance / Multi-function Workday engagements.
• Lead and transform the consulting industry by developing some key Assets and Accelerators which can help Clients in their digital transformation journey.
• Provide direction for complex Landscape issues and can collaborate with the business and developers and execute on agreed timelines.
• Provide consulting solutions including how to leverage standard Workday functionality and how to enable requirements while maximizing the ROI.
• Lead intelligent conversations to guide clients through best-practice project scoping and delivery to ensure overall project success in implementing Workday.
• Ability to manage project execution and manage client conversations during assessment, design, implementation, and status reporting.
• Lead the problem solution design and implementation ensuring high quality adhering to the timelines and defined budget.
• Ability to drive large scale digital finance transformation initiatives during the entire life cycle of the project.
• Supervision of Accenture Managers, Senior and Junior analysts and consultants and client personnel to drive delivery outcomes.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Should know how to lead and deliver Workday engagements across different implementation approaches including excellent understanding of client business processes, pain points, solution options and organization structure.
• Should know how to drive and build sales pipeline including BDs and Proposals
• Should be aware of digital finance technologies that drives business processes.
• Should know how to lead business case creation for Workday design to implementation projects

Professional & Technical Skills:

• MBA from a Tier-1 or Tier-2 B-school. CA or CPA
• Deep knowledge and experience in Finance and Controlling Org structure and design, Workday Implementation and rollout point of views, approach and design principles, roadmap and business case definition.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and lead global distributed teams across Platforms.
• 15+ years’ experience involving Workday Financial Management and other Workday applications, design to implementation projects.
• At least 8+ years of consulting experience in a big4 or similar firms
• Extensive experience in GTM/Presales and writing proposals.
• Must have worked as overall solution architect or cross functional lead for all finance workstreams/functions in Finance Transformation projects involving Workday applications including Financials, Human Capital Management etc. and E2E landscape of Workday applications.
• Business process knowledge related to Workday Financials including Accounting & Finance, Audit & Internal Controls, Close Consolidation, Revenue Management, Expense etc. along with Reporting and Dashboards capabilities.
• Programme management experience and track record of successful (on-time & on-budget) delivery of large, complex programs in a dynamic environment with numerous and complex stakeholders’ groups
• Active role in the identification of opportunities by farming existing relationships and growing new networks.