Functional Consultant - Record to Report and Grants - Workday Success Plans

Your work days are brighter here. We’re obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. We’re in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care.

We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun‑drenched optimism and drive. Whether you’re building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workday teammates who’ve got your back. In return, we’ll give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul.

The Workday Success Plans Team is all about our customers and their post Go‑Live journey – we create programs to help them drive business value from their Workday applications. The team delivers a variety of programs and services, ranging from feature demonstrations to full feature deployments. At Workday, we help the world’s largest organizations adapt to what’s next by bringing finance, HR, and planning into a single enterprise cloud.

We work hard, are serious about what we do, but also like to have fun. We put people first, celebrate diversity, drive innovation, and do good in the communities where we live and work.

Would you enjoy learning new things in a fast‑paced environment? Do you have an appetite for variety and challenging business problems to solve? Are you a great communicator who can clearly articulate and demonstrate the value of Workday solutions to our customers? The Workday Success Plans team works directly with customers through targeted micro‑consulting engagements to help solve their business needs using the Workday application.

As a Workday Financials Expert, you will act as a trusted advisor, assisting customers with how‑to questions, troubleshooting, and configuration guidance, and providing feature demonstrations.

Our team has a broad and deep understanding of Workday Financials. In this position we are looking for expertise in the following:

• Financial Accounting
  • Accounting Journals
  • Allocations
  • Consolidations
  • Inter‑company Processing
  • Period Close
  • Statistics
  • Multicurrency
• Grants
  • Award Lifecycle
  • Award Budgets
  • Salary over the Cap
  • Award Billing

So if you are passionate about the value technology can bring to an organization, love learning, and want to work directly with some of the greatest companies on the planet, bring your energy and teamwork to the Workday Success Plans team!

Primary responsibilities of this role include delivering various services to Workday Success Plans customers. To be successful, this requires:

• Conducting research to ensure understanding of customer questions and related Workday concepts.
• Delivering small‑scope consulting in response to customer requests; providing configuration guidance, demonstrations, considerations, tips & tricks.
• Troubleshooting product configuration to resolve or provide optimal product configuration to meet customer business requirements.
• Clearly and effectively communicating responses and value to customers.
• Creating and delivering customer presentations on how to use Workday features to achieve business goals (Accelerator Webinars).
• Providing one‑on‑one consulting guidance to accelerate customer feature adoption (Feature Accelerator).
• Reviewing customer tenants to identify adoption opportunities (Feature Adoption Tenant Reviews).
• Completing and maintaining product expertise and Workday Certification(s) along with familiarity with Workday roadmap.
• Keeping up to date with industry practices and the ability to engage with our customers on those topics.
• Helping drive the creation of new programs to drive customer feature adoption.

In addition to delivering Workday Success Plans services, our Workday professionals will also deliver other Customer Enablement services, such as:

• Office Hours to conduct appointment‑based consulting engagements providing guidance and product expertise to customers.
• Perform configuration and…