Workday Finance Implementations Consultant, Senior Associate

A career in our Workday Finance practice, within Workday Consulting services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients leverage Workday technology as a tool to enhance and unify Human Resources, talent management, and finance. We focus on understanding the forces shaping their business and developing industry tailored solutions that support our clients through the entire lifecycle of the Workday implementation. In joining, you'll be a part of a team that helps our clients reinvent their financial management capabilities and drive change across their businesses. Acting as a true business partner, we get to know their business so they can achieve business process optimisation and gain access to a full range of financial capabilities, relevant analytics and metrics, and fully auditable process management that delivers accurate and timely financial information for confident decision making with Workday.
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As a Senior Associate, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Use feedback and reflection to develop self awareness, personal strengths and address development areas.
• Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.
• Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry or sector trends.
• Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.
• Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.
• Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.
• Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.
• Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Preferred Degree:
Finance, Accounting, Financial Accounting
Minimum Years of Experience:
4 year(s)
Preferred Qualifications:
Preferred Knowledge/Skills:
Demonstrates thorough abilities and interest in a Workday implementations consulting role responsible for:

• Implementing Workday Financials, including design, build, and testing;

• Assisting large companies with improving the performance of their finance organizations, including the delivery of finance services; implementing finance technologies; aligning finance strategy with business strategies; streamlining and standardizing finance policies, practices, and processes; and transforming the finance organization to more effectively support the business;

• Contributing to the development of a business vision and manage implementation efforts with complex project management capabilities; and,

• Identifying and addressing client needs by building, maintaining, and utilizing networks of client relationships and community involvement.

Demonstrates prior proven success analyzing detailed finance and accounting processes of global organizations to improve efficiencies and effectiveness in the following areas:

• Transactional processes such as intercompany, Procure to Pay, Order to Cash etc.;

• Close and consolidation;

• Performance management, budgeting and forecasting capabilities;

• Internal and external reporting; and,

• Maintenance and building of cost-effective controls.

Demonstrates proven abilities and experience in process improvement in and applications of at least one of the following focus areas:

• Finance transformation, financial systems optimization;

• Managerial cost accounting, financial modelling and industry systems/processes;

• System application implementations and software configurations; and,

• ERP systems, including SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle, JDE, Workday, NetSuite.

Demonstrates proven thorough abilities and success with identifying and addressing client needs by actively participating in client discussions and meetings; preparing concise, accurate documents; and balancing project economics management with the occurrence of unanticipated issues.
Demonstrates proven success and thorough abilities to learn and perform in functional and technical capacities, which include the following areas:

• Workday system application implementations and software configurations;

• Utilization of PC applications (i.e. Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Project) to write, communicate, facilitate, and present cogently, emphasizing the ability to capture effective client needs understanding their systems to be able to translate those needs into system functionality; and,

• Produce deliverables within a diverse, fast paced environment collaborating effectively across teams on multiple projects and initiatives simultaneously.

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Applications will be accepted until the position is filled or the posting is removed, unless otherwise set forth on the following webpage. Please visit this link for information about anticipated application deadlines: https://pwc.to/us-application-deadlines
The salary range for this position is: $84,000 - $202,000, plus individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. Actual compensation within the range will be dependent upon the individual's skills, experience, qualifications and location, and applicable employment laws. PwC offers a wide range of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, 401k, holiday pay, vacation and more. To view our benefits at a glance, please visit the following link: https://pwc.to/benefits-at-a-glance