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Workday Certified Financials Accounting Center Consultant

Accenture
Los Angeles, CA
$67.3K-$156.2K a year
Full-time

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new is pushing forward the curve, riding the edge where the impossible meets the transformational and making it reality where it matters.

Help us show the world what's possible as you partner with clients to unlock hidden value and deliver innovative solutions.

Empowered with innovative tools, continuous learning and a global community of diverse talent and perspectives, we drive success in a new business architecture that disrupts conventional practices.

Our expertise spans 40+ industries across 120+ countries and impacts millions of lives every day. We turn ideas into reality.

You are...

As a member of one of the world's largest Workday-certified teams, you'll be part of a team of advisory professionals who deliver more than just technology.

From rapid deployments to entire transformations, you'll deliver integrated, payroll, cloud-based HR and financial management solutions that put organizations on the fast track to a better way to work.

As a Workday Financials Accounting Center Consultant your primary responsibilities may include :

  • Manage teams in the identification of business requirements, functional design, process design (including scenario design, flow mapping), prototyping, testing, training, defining support procedures
  • Formulate overall project planning, budgeting, forecasting and reporting strategies.
  • Develop statements of work and / or client proposals
  • Develop and manage vendor relationships
  • Lead workshops for client education
  • Manage resources and budget on client projects
  • Serve as the escalation point for critical functional issue resolution
  • Provide subject matter expertise to aid in decision-making related to the functional solution
  • Lead, mentor, counsel and manage performance metrics of project staff
  • Conduct working sessions with clients to gather, understand, and analyze business requirements.
  • Architect Workday Financials Accounting Center solutions to ensure that all work streams are cohesive and cross-functional impacts are considered and mitigated
  • Advise clients on industry standards and leading practices.
  • Demonstrate design options through the use of prototyping.
  • Understand and apply Workday and Accenture methodologies.
  • Provide the Project Manager with status updates and keep them apprised of overall project status.
  • Demonstrate strong client and stakeholder management to achieve project objectives
  • Ensure the client takes advantage of Workday best practices.
  • Support innovation through the creation of new industry-leading methods and assets

Why should I join the Accenture Workday team?

It's not just what you know or where you've been that propels success at Accenture : It's who you are, fundamentally, as a person.

We prize diversity in backgrounds and perspectives. Whatever your unique qualities, a few key traits should apply : You're passionate about technology and motivated to apply the latest technology trends.

You're proactive and collaborative; a leader with effective communication skills. You're driven by new challenges and are motivated to improve.

You're a creative problem solver with the flexibility to navigate uncertainty. You're focused on the future with a desire to develop inclusive, responsible and sustainable solutions to complex challenges.

  • Innovate every day. Be at the forefront of designing and delivering Workday solutions that push boundaries and create new opportunities for our clients.
  • Lead with the industry's best . Join an industry-recognized global cloud leader with more than 2000 Workday-certified professionals collaborating to drive enterprise-wide transformational projects on a global scale.

Accenture has worked with more than 600 clients to deliver Workday deployments to unlock the potential of their organizations.

Learn and grow continuously. Harness unmatched training and professional development to help you build and advance your Workday, consultative and delivery skills.

With learning resources, interactive classroom courses, real-life client simulations and ongoing mentoring available when you need it, you'll expand your thinking beyond the core Workday implementation.

Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirement

Here's what you need :

  • Workday Financials Partner Certification
  • Minimum of 2 years of consulting experience, most recently in a Lead or similar level role
  • Minimum of 2 years of hands on Workday Financials experience
  • Minimum of 2 years of US and / or Global Financials Operations experience
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associates Degree, must have minimum 6 years of work experience)

Bonus points if :

  • Proficiency in multiple business processes : (PTP, OTC, GL, FA, Budgeting, Cash Management, etc...)
  • Experience leading global and / or LE Workday engagements.
  • Thrive in a diverse, fast paced environment.
  • Other leading Cloud based SaaS financial application implementation experience : (Oracle E-Business Suite, NetSuite, Infor, Unit 4, PeopleSoft, Oracle Cloud ERP, SAP, Lawson, etc...)
  • An advanced degree in the area of specialization

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience.

As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Maryland, New York or Washington as set forth below.

We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.

Information on benefits is here.

Role Location Annual Salary Range

California $63,200 to $169,800

Colorado $63,200 to $146,700

District of Columbia $67,300 to $156,200

New York $58,500 to $169,800

Maryland $58,500 to $135,800

Washington $67,300 to $156,200

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About Accenture :

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world's leading

businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their

operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services-creating tangible value at

speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with 742,000 people serving

clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of

the world's leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We

combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and Al with unmatched

industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to

deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across

Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song. These capabilities,

together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 3600 value, enable us

to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by

the 3600 value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and

communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

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As a business imperative, every person at Accenture has the responsibility to create and sustain an inclusive environment.

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