Workday Financials Consultant or Senior Consultant

at Alight Solutions LLC in Chicago, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Strada is a technology-enabled, people powered company committed to delivering world-class payroll, human capital management, and financial management solutions to organizations globally.

With a team of more than 8,000 experts, Strada blends leading-edge technology with human ingenuity to help businesses across the globe design and deliver at scale. Supporting over 30 years to 1,400 customers in 33 countries, Strada partners with customers at every stage of their journey, to help drive their vision forward.

It's why we're so driven to connect passion with purpose. Our team's expertise in human insights and cloud technology gives companies and employees around the world the ability to power confident decisions, for life.

With a comprehensive total rewards package, continuing education and training, and tremendous potential with a growing global organization, Strada is the perfect place to put your passion to work.

To learn more about us, pls visit Strada Global Page

Workday Financials Consultant or Senior Consultant - Functional role in any of the Workday Financial modules:
Primarily responsible for ensuring timely and quality execution of client deliverables and consulting with clients on Workday projects. Possesses a broad understanding of cross functional touchpoints and their impacts within the Workday system to effectively develop solutions to complex problems/projects across multiple domains or clients. Consults without supervision on complex projects, and/or lead Medium Enterprise or Large Enterprise projects depending on domain area(s) specialty. Participates in client sales meetings as Subject Matter Expert.
Lead or participate in all stages of the project lifecycle with external clients and participates in all stages of the Workday project lifecycle, from discovery sessions, planning and design phases through business process configurations, testing and deployment for the Workday HCM or Financials application.
Effectively execute medium to large client deliverables from start to finish across multiple, concurrent projects utilizing Strada's quality standards and consulting methodology.
Manage self and work to project scope, timeline and budget. Coordinates with others when applicable. Consult without supervision and/or request guidance when needed.
Listens to client request, provides subjective matter expertise, proposes alternatives, and recommends solution(s) using methodology and processes while remaining agile to client changing needs.
Frequently discusses, and can articulate to clients, lessons learned from previous client experience, Workday best practices, as well as Strada's Point of View.
Provide direction and guidance internally to less experienced colleagues by directing work and reviewing deliverables.
Participate in internal business initiatives to assist the organization in building our Strada brand and collateral, including but not limited to internal domain groups, chats and training.
Participate in building the Strada brand by participating in Workday ecosystem product groups/chats.
Has specialized and deepened skill set within Workday Financials module(s).

Knowledge and Expertise of:
Minimum 3 to 5 plus years of previous consulting experience implementing Financials systems such as Workday, SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle E-Business, ADP, Ultipro or other SaaS software solutions
Experience in transforming business process requirements into system configurations.
Possess strong facilitation/presentation skills.
Ability to be effectively and actively engaged on multiple, parallel projects
Demonstrates ability to prioritize conflicting demands, request resources when needed
High attention to detail with innate to dig in and solve complex issues and thoroughly test solutions
Excellent oral and written communications skills
Possesses sound analytical problem-solving and documentation skills
Ability to travel up to 50%
Workday Financials certifications strongly preferred
This opportunity does not offer sponsorship
Workday Certification is a requirement of the role. Candidates who are not certified will be considered for the role, but they will need to successfully pass Workday certification as well as on-going successful re-certification

Education:
Bachelor's Degree in Business, Math, Human Resources, Computer Science, or relevant field of study.

Benefits
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