Senior Financials Consultant, Workday
FDM, State & Local Government
$125.6-188.4k
Enterprise AI platform for managing HR and finance
Job no longer available
Enterprise AI platform for managing HR and finance
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$125.6-188.4k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To leverage the power of AI to elevate humans and supercharge work, moving business forever forward.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years implementing Financial solutions
- Previous consulting experience either as a consultant with a consulting company or an internal consultant
- Experience implementing Workday, SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, or similar applications
- Experience with at least 2 functional areas: Workday FDM (Financial Data Model), Governmental Accounting, General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Financial Reporting/budgeting
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience
- Passion for customer service
- Project management experience is ideal
- Technical experience a plus
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong presentation skills
- Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously
- Willingness to commit to long-term projects
- Business analysis and requirements gathering abilities
- Ability to learn technology quickly through instruction and self-training
- Experience with multiple financial applications a plus
- Ability to travel 50% or more of the time
What the job involves
- The Professional Services Financials Senior Consultant will be tasked with ensuring the successful implementation of the Workday solution
- They will provide Workday product and implementation expertise to their engagements
- The Consultant will work with their clients to understand their business requirements and help configure and test the Workday solution
- They will take direction and provide status to the Engagement Manager assigned to their project
- Become a specialist in the Workday Financials product suite
- Lead design sessions for multiple financial functional areas
- Drive client business requirements
- Configure and Prototype the Workday solution
- Demonstrate Workday features to clients
- Support Client with Unit Testing, End to End Testing and User Acceptance Testing
- Work with the client and data conversion team to help convert legacy data into Workday
- Complete the work assigned to you by the Engagement Manager within the budgeted time allocated
- Assist integration consulting team with designing, configuring and testing both packaged and custom integrations
- Learn, understand and advise on Workday’s Deployment Methodology
- Work with Delivery Assurance to ensure compliance with agreed to checkpoints
- Help mentor new Consultants
- Ensure the client takes advantage of Workday best practices
- Identify opportunities to position other service offerings
- Ensure the client is reference-able once they are in production
- Participate in update training, supporting ecosystem and other events that help share one’s product skills with other consultants
- Provide the Engagement Manager with status reports and keep them informed of overall project status
Our take
Workday is a cloud-based software vendor that provides management of workforces and finances. The company uses a single database for workforce management and financial management to offer integration and optimize business intelligence across companies. It has added to the packages and tools it offers over the years, providing analytic options that allow companies to combine third-party data with information collected by Workday.
The company has also grown through acquisitions and partnerships to broaden its capabilities.. Most recently, in 2025 it purchases Sana, an AI-driven enterprise knowledge and learning platform, to create a "new front door for work". This acquisition allows Workday to integrate Sana's AI-powered search, agents, and learning capabilities with its own data and workflows, allowing employees to access information, automate tasks, and complete their day entirely within Workday.
Through a combination of strategic acquisitions and in-house development, WOrkday has built a comprehensive suite of HR, financial, and enterprise tools. By focusing on innovation and AI-driven workflows, the company continues to push productivity and decision-making for organizations worldwide. Building on this track record, Workday is very much positioned for even more growth, reinforcing its status as a leader in shaping the future of work.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Oct 2011
$85m
SERIES F
Apr 2009
$75m
SERIES E
Total funding: $215.3m
Company HQ
Pleasanton, CA
Leadership
Aneel Bhusri
(Co-Founder & Executive Chair)Annel began his career at Morgan Stanley as a Corporate Finance Analyst. He then spent nearly 6 years at PeopleSoft as a Senior VP before co-founding Workday in 2005, where he has served as the CEO ever since.
Carl Eschenbach
(CEO)Carl joined Workday in 2022 as Co-CEO, becoming CEO in 2024. He has also been a Partner at Sequoia Capital since 2016. Previously, he spent 14 years at VMware as President and COO and 3 years at Inktomi Corporation as the VP of North America Sales.
Peter Bailis
(CTO)Prior to joining Workday in 2025, People was a VP of Engineering at Google. He also previously founded Sisu Data, where he served as the CEO for over 5 years.
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