Technology Modernization - Workday Consultant

As a Workday Manager, you'll perform advisory and implementation services to address business needs throughout client organizations for the Technology Modernization Practice – all with the resources, environment, and support to help you excel.

From day one, you'll be empowered by the greater Technology Modernization team to help clients make the moves that will help them achieve their vision and help you achieve more, confidently.

Your day-to-day may include :

Assist in full life cycle implementations including planning, design, & build phases

Responsible for documenting business requirements, system design and transformational goals

Configure applications and conduct iterative unit testing

Help to create training materials and quick reference guides to support user adoption

Conduct training classes to prepare end users for deployment

Provide post-production support

Participate in full life cycle implementations

Assist in the identification of business requirements, functional design, process design (including scenario design, flow mapping), prototyping, testing, training, defining support procedures

Meet or exceed targeted billing hours (utilization)

Other duties as assigned

You have the following technical skills and qualifications :

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, HR, Information Technology, MIS, or related field required, Master's degree is a plus

Minimum 4 years of related work experience in a similar consulting practice or function servicing cross-industry clients at a national level

Minimum of 4 full life cycle implementations of Workday

Knowledge of Workday Projects and Grants modules

Industry recognized professional certification required

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Knowledge of software development lifecycles, key metrics, and reports

Experience with application integration & back-end data connectivity applications

Experience installing / configuring / implementing Infor Applications

Exposure or training on Workday Applications

Knowledge of Workday Applications

Proven ability delivering complex and time sensitive projects

Strong leadership skills, able to conduct meetings and write technically oriented documents

Able to work with clients to understand current state processes and define future state processes based on business objectives

Can travel as needed. Expected travel is up to 40%

Consistent with the firm's hybrid work model, this position will require in-person attendance at least two days per week, either at a GT office or client site

About Us

At Grant Thornton, we believe in making business more personal and building trust into every result – for our clients and you. Here, we go beyond your expectations of a career in professional services by offering a career path with more : more opportunity, more flexibility, and more support. It's what makes us different, and we think being different makes us better.

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