Big 4 - Workday Financials Manager

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Fantastic opportunity to join a world-class consulting firm – one of the Big 4 global market leaders.

You’ll be joining a community of technology-focused professionals who work together to deliver SaaS ERP based transformation programmes. The team uses their functional knowledge and experience (e.g. Finance, HR, Procurement), coupled with their expertise in cloud applications (e.g. Oracle, Workday, Coupa, SAP) to lead and deliver client programmes, support pre-sales activities, and develop improvements and extensions to the Powered Enterprise model. The client is growing their Powered Connected Technology team to meet an ever-increasing demand for their market-leading services and is seeking technology management consultants with relevant expertise and experience.

The Person

• Recognises the importance of continuous self and team development and actively strives to achieve this.

• Helps others to understand how their work contributes to the overall success of an engagement and the wider firm.

• Builds strong global relationships and actively seeks out the global network’s best experts to address client needs.

• Communicates compelling and well thought out solutions to complex problems.

• Builds constructive working relationships across different teams, functions, countries, or cultures.

• Fosters a sense of self-belief and confidence in others.

• Seeks to understand others’ motivations.

• Supports others to make brave decisions.

Functional Skills

• Educated to degree level or equivalent.

• An understanding of the key business issues/drivers that result in clients pursuing Finance transformation programmes (e.g. cost reduction, insight-led improvement, etc.).

• Experience of multiple industry sectors (e.g. Media, Services, Retail, Banking, Insurance, Local and Central Government, etc.).

• Strong influencing skills, with the ability to land key decisions with senior leaders and key business stakeholders.

• Experience of multiple Workday Finance ERP implementation project lifecycles, from presales, scoping, and planning through to post-go-live support, as a Solution Architect.

• Detailed knowledge of Workday Finance enabled end-to-end business processes across Finance and Procurement.

• A background in designing and delivering end-to-end business processes across multiple functional areas including Invoice to Cash (Receivables, Collection, and Cash Management), Record to Report (General Ledger including Intercompany), Procure to Pay (Sourcing, Procurement, Payables, and Payments), Acquire to Retire (Fixed Assets), Project to Result (Project Management and Project Accounting – Costing and Billing), within Workday Finance.

• Broad knowledge of other Workday product sets like HR and Payroll solutions.

• An understanding of the functional, application, and technical architectural elements of a Workday Finance programme.

• Experience of operating and implementing in a cloud environment and understanding the impacts of implementing and operating on the cloud versus on-premise.

• Understanding of a Workday Finance delivery lifecycle using Workday’s methodology or equivalent delivery method.

• Experience of managing a team of 10+ colleagues, including client and third parties.

• Experience in planning and estimating Workday Finance programmes.

• An appreciation of the influence of user experience-based design (e.g. Personas, user journeys) and how this can be used to augment a solution.

Professional Skills

• Strong documentation, reporting, and presentation skills in both virtual and in-person modes.

• Well-developed analytical skills and the ability to provide clarity to complex issues and synthesise large amounts of information.

• Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, and Microsoft Projects.

• Strong interpersonal, team building, organisational, and motivational skills.

• Fast learner with an ability to get up-to-speed in a short space of time.

• Ability to convey ideas and recommendations in a clear, compelling, and succinct way in written and verbal communications.

• Good attention to detail and an ability to analyse and use data in decision making.

• Strong organisational and multitasking skills with the ability to balance competing priorities.

• Experience identifying, diagnosing, and resolving issues independently; taking initiative even under unfamiliar or ambiguous circumstances.

• Anticipates the need to re-prioritise; can shift gears and comfortably make decisions based on new information.

Send your CV for more information.

Seniority Level

Mid-Senior level

Employment Type

Full-time

Job Function

Finance and Consulting

Industries

Business Consulting and Services, IT Services, and IT Consulting

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