Financials Direct

Role Overview

• Serve as a subject matter expert in a variety of strategic, high-impact projects from strategic planning through stabilization with no supervision.
• Provide subject matter expertise regarding key process decisions related to industry and areas of expertise.
• Lead multiple concurrent large, complex Workday solutions and projects for a global customer base.
• Design, configure, test, and implement business requirements across multiple Workday Financial module(s).
• Manage the project scope, quality, timeline, communication, and overall delivery.
• Provide oversight, guidance, instruction, learning opportunities, and coaching to team members.
• Conduct working sessions with clients to gather, understand, and analyze business requirements.
• Assess actual client needs and propose recommendations and/or alternative solutions to meet client goals.
• Advise clients on best practices, recognize, and recommend process improvements, and implement system enhancements.
• Consult to touch points, dependencies, and integration aspects across multiple area(s) of Workday to provide a comprehensive solution to clients.
• Understand different country regulatory and statutory requirements and how these can be met with Workday.
• Lead portions of client sales meetings as a Subject Matter Expert; scope potential projects for area(s) of expertise.
• Work across internal teams and clients to identify and resolve all issues that may impact project scope and/or Go Live; ensure alignment across project plans and allocated budgets.
• Frequently discuss and articulate lessons learned from previous experience, Workday best practices, and Kognitiv's Point of View.
• Strive to innovate and suggest new approaches to deploy Workday efficiently and effectively.
• Contribute to the organization's knowledge management repository through formal and informal avenues (ex: Q&A, documented deliverables, facilitation of Workday knowledge sharing sessions, regularly posting best practices, etc).
• Act as a mentor and coach for less experienced team members.
• Meet key performance indicators set for this role (ex: utilization target, service level agreements, customer satisfaction scores, etc).
• Work in a fast-paced environment that requires tasks to be completed quickly and accurately.
• Demonstrate Kognitiv's core value, "act like an owner", in all aspects of work.

Requirements

• 6+ years' experience as a consultant leading and deploying Workday implementations or supporting Workday Post-Production / AMS Services.
• Deep knowledge of Workday Core Financials/Security/Reporting as well as two additional modules (Procurement, Suppliers, Projects. Expenses, FDM/Financial Accounting with Advanced Financial Reporting, Customers and Customer Billing, Education and Government, Prism, BIRT).
• Ability to lead workstream(s) on large scale projects (acquisition, phase X, etc) for the full project lifecycle – from initial scoping/planning, discovery, design, testing, and go live.
• Broad business and technology understanding and a deep awareness of industry trends in Enterprise Resource Planning, Accounting, and/or Financials.
• Proven ability to influence a wide variety of audiences, including clients, employees, and executive management.
• Demonstrated commitment and achievement to delivery excellence and client satisfaction; strong client focus with the ability to understand client needs and build relationships.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with customers and colleagues in a remote working environment.
• Ability to prioritize and organize work to ensure overall timeliness and quality standards with little supervision.
• Ability to effectively manage against timelines, deadlines, and goals.
• Experience managing global teams, whether in a people management or program/project management capacity.
• Proven ability to see around corners and understand both the big picture and individual needs.
• Understanding of scope and details of a project plan.
• Possess the ability to identify and communicate risks, issues, performance concerns, the need for resources, etc to internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience implementing complex, practical business solutions under competing deadlines and priorities while keeping a high attention to detail.
• Ability to be effectively and actively leading multiple, concurrent projects.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize conflicting demands with little supervision.
• Willingness and ability to mentor, coach and direct other consultants.
• Able to come up with improvements in tools and/or processes to help the practice.
• Understanding the importance of client satisfaction and can apply it in the process of servicing the client.
• Communicates client feedback to senior team members.
• Understands and follows internal processes in responding to client needs.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and to adapt to frequent change.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills required.
• Ability to meet travel requirements (<5% a year).

Tech Stack

• Go

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package