About the Role
Our team promotes Workday’s core values with ‘Employees’ being the first of them! This is why we:
1. Offer flexible work schedules aligned to our "flex model"
2. Empower you to follow your desired career path & achieve professional and personal goals
3. Encourage work-life balance and wellbeing
4. Are proud to champion equal opportunities for everyone
We are looking for someone to join our team who is eager to learn with a creative mindset, support their colleagues and have fun.
As a member of project teams, you’ll play a key role in the end-to-end implementation of Workday’s Financial Management product, across a varied portfolio of customers. You’ll act as a trusted advisor to the customer, either leading or supporting the implementation of single or multiple Finance functional streams, on any given implementation project.
What you will achieve in your first 12 – 24 months
You’ll get the opportunity to learn and achieve many things as a Consultant at Workday.
Here are some of the activities you will experience on your Workday career journey:
You’ll get the opportunity to learn and achieve many things as a Consultant at Workday. Here are some of the activities you will experience on your Workday career journey:
5. Month 1 - you’ll complete the Workday Core Finance & Practical Certification training, and within your first 6 months, you’ll undertake further Specialist Certification training
6. Once Certified, you’ll supplement your initial product learnings through active project engagements, working under the guidance of a Functional Architect or Senior Consultant
7. You will work closely with other Consulting Teams on projects, including Data and Integration Consultants, to ensure seamless collaboration between the various touch-points of the application
8. Gain a practical understanding of Workday’s implementation methodology at each stage of the project life cycle:
9. Gathering and understanding Customer’s Business Requirements and demonstrating core Workday concepts, utilising pre-delivered Workday solutions
10. Translating Customer requirements into configured solutions and ensuring detailed unit testing of the Workday solution
11. Supporting your customer during multiple rounds of testing, responding to and resolving test issues under the guidance of the Lead Consultant
12. Undertaking final deployment activities for the customer, including the provision of knowledge transfer and post-production support activities
13. Within your 1st year you can expect to have worked on at least 1 (potentially 2) full-cycle implementation projects within your areas of expertise
14. In your 2nd year, you’ll continue to build on the knowledge that you’ve learnt, through additional training offerings and multiple\concurrent project experiences.
About You
The role requires a blended mix of Functional and Technical Consulting skills relating to the implementation of business software applications. Workday Consultants act as trusted advisors to our Customers, as a result we are Business Consultants who are experts in the functional aspects of the Workday platform. If you have existing or transferable experience in any of the following areas, then we’d love to hear from you:
Basic Qualifications
15. 5+ years Consulting experience, either as an Internal Consultant or with a Consulting/Software Company
16. 5+ years experience working with or Implementing a Tier 1 business software application such as: Workday, SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, ADP, NetSuite, FinancialForce or similar applications
17. Corporate Financial accounting experience
Other Qualifications
18. Relevant educational qualifications and/or experience implementing or supporting Financial Management solutions
19. Business analysis and requirements gathering skills
20. A detailed-driven problem solver, with a passion for delivering exceptional levels of customer service
21. A strong presenter with excellent verbal and written communication skills
22. Ability and desire to learn technology quickly through a mix of different mediums
23. Resourceful and adaptable; you’ll be comfortable working remotely, utilising a variety of tools with a high degree
24. Comfortable working with AI tools.
25. Ability to travel up to 50% of the time (under typical circumstances)
26. Language Skills: Fluency in English and German are mandatory.
Pursuant to applicable Fair Chance law, Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.