Functional Consultant - Record to Report and Grants - Success Plans

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Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm.

The Workday Success Plans Team focuses on customers’ post Go‑Live journey, creating 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.

As a Workday Financials Expert, you’ll work directly with customers through targeted micro‑consulting engagements to solve their business needs using the Workday application. You will act as a trusted advisor, assisting customers with how‑to questions, troubleshooting, configuration guidance, and feature demonstrations.

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

• Conduct research to ensure understanding of customer questions and related Workday concepts.
• Deliver small‑scope consulting in response to customer requests, providing configuration guidance, demonstrations, considerations, tips, and tricks.
• Troubleshoot product configuration to resolve or provide optimal product configuration to meet customer business requirements.
• Communicate responses and value to customers clearly and effectively.
• Create and deliver customer presentations on how to use Workday features to achieve business goals (Accelerator Webinars).
• Provide one‑on‑one consulting guidance to accelerate customer feature adoption (Feature Accelerator).
• Review customer tenants to identify adoption opportunities (Feature Adoption Tenant Reviews).
• Maintain product expertise and Workday certifications, staying familiar with the Workday roadmap.
• Keep up to date with industry practices and engage customers on those topics.
• Help drive the creation of new programs to drive customer feature adoption.

• Office Hours to conduct appointment‑based consulting engagements, providing guidance and product expertise to customers.
• Perform configuration and business requirements reviews, delivering detailed deliverables that highlight opportunities for optimization.
• Provide one‑on‑one customer configuration designs.
• Deploy full Workday feature deployments.

• 3 years of IT implementation experience.
• 3 years of experience with software consulting and deployment, including but not limited to People Soft, SAP, Oracle, and/or JD Edwards.
• 1+ years of Workday consulting experience or experience as a Workday SME in at least one of the following areas: FDM, Record to Report, Grants.

• Workday certification, or ability to certify in at least one of the following: FDM, Record to Report, Grants.
• Ability to gain a thorough understanding of Workday concepts as new features are released.
• Ability to distill complex concepts into understandable presentations for customers.
• Ability to multitask and work on multiple engagements and deliverables simultaneously.
• Strong critical thinking skills to understand complex, technical process issues and facilitate/influence decision‑making.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to travel up to 20 %.
• Bachelor’s degree or relevant work experience required. Advanced degree preferred.

Primary

Location:

USA. IL. Chicago

Base Pay Range: $104,500 USD – $156,700 USD

Additional US Locations: $94,600 USD – $167,900 USD

Our approach requires spending at least half of the time each quarter in the office or in the field, allowing flexibility to create a schedule that meets business, team, and personal needs.

Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans. Pursuant to applicable Fair Chance law, Workday will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We are committed to providing an accessible and inclusive hiring experience. If you require accommodations, please email