Functional Consultant - Financial Software DACH

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About the Team

Workday’s Financial Consulting teams are driven by a passion for our products and the success of our customers in implementing our best in class cloud solutions. We’re a diverse group of people, with an invaluable mix of experience and backgrounds, located across multiple locations within the region.

About the Role

Our team promotes Workday’s core values with ‘Employees’ being the first of them! This is why we:

• Offer flexible work schedules aligned to our "flex model"

• Empower you to follow your desired career path & achieve professional and personal goals 

• Encourage work-life balance and wellbeing

• 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 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:

• 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

• Once Certified, you’ll supplement your initial product learnings through active project engagements, working under the guidance of a Functional Architect or Senior Consultant

• 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

• Gain a practical understanding of Workday’s implementation methodology at each stage of the project life cycle:

• Gathering and understanding Customer’s Business Requirements and demonstrating core Workday concepts, utilising pre-delivered Workday solutions

• Translating Customer requirements into configured solutions and ensuring detailed unit testing of the Workday solution

• Supporting your customer during multiple rounds of testing, responding to and resolving test issues under the guidance of the Lead Consultant

• Undertaking final deployment activities for the customer, including the provision of knowledge transfer and post-production support activities

• 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

• 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 

• 2+ years Consulting experience, either as an Internal Consultant or with a Consulting/Software Company

• Corporate Financial accounting experience or equivalent qualifications in Finance & Accounting.

​Other Qualifications

• Relevant educational qualifications and/or experience implementing or supporting Financial Management solutions.

• Experience working with or Implementing a Tier 1 business software application such as: Workday, SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, ADP, NetSuite, FinancialForce or similar application

• Business analysis and requirements gathering skills

• A detailed-driven problem solver, with a passion for delivering exceptional levels of customer service

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and comfortable presenting.

• Ability and desire to learn technology quickly through a mix of different mediums

• Resourceful and adaptable; you’ll be comfortable working remotely, utilising a variety of tools with a high degree

• Comfortable working with AI tools.

• Ability to travel up to 30% of the time (under typical circumstances)  

• 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.

Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.

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