Sr Functional Consultant - Workday Success Plans Adaptive Planning

The Workday Success Plans team works directly with customers through targeted micro-consulting engagements to help solve their business needs using the Workday application. Responsible for acting as a trusted Workday advisor, you will have the opportunity to assist customers with how-to questions, troubleshoot and guide customers through configuration, and provide feature demonstrations.

Responsibilities

Conducting research to ensure understanding of customer questions and related Workday concepts; Delivering small scope consulting in response to customer requests; providing configuration guidance, demonstrations, considerations, tips & tricks; Troubleshooting product configuration to resolve or provide optimal product configuration to meet customer business requirements; Clearly and effectively communicating responses and value to customers; Creating and delivering customer presentations on how to use Workday features to achieve business goals (Accelerator Webinars); Providing one-on-one consulting guidance to accelerate customer feature adoption (Feature Accelerator); Reviewing customer tenants to identify adoption opportunities (Feature Adoption Tenant Reviews); Completing and maintaining product expertise and Workday Certification(s) along with familiarity with Workday roadmap; Keeping up to date with industry practices and the ability to engage with our customers on those topics; Helping drive the creation of new programs to drive customer feature adoption; Performing configuration and business requirements reviews with a detailed deliverable calling out opportunities for optimization; Providing one-on-one customer configuration designs; Deployments including full deployment of Workday features

Requirements

Strong understanding of Workday Security and Business Processes; Experience with HR Concepts such as Supervisory Organizations, Position Changes, Headcount Forecasting; Experience in headcount modeling and analysis; Implementation experience with Workday Adaptive Planning; Proficiency in creating and managing financial models within the platform; Ability to develop complex reports and dashboards using Adaptive Planning; Experience with data integration between Workday Adaptive Planning and Workday HCM and/or other HCM systems; Proficiency in managing data imports, exports, and data validation; 2+ years of experience with Workday Adaptive Planning implementations; 5 years of IT implementation experience; 3+ years of software consulting experience; 1+ years experience in Adaptive Integrations with external systems; Ability to troubleshoot Adaptive Integrations to external systems; Ability to gain a thorough understanding of Workday concepts as new features are released; Ability to distill complex concepts into understandable presentations for our customers; Ability to multitask and work on multiple engagements and deliverables simultaneously; Strong critical thinking skills so as to understand complex, technical process issues and facilitate/influence decision making; Excellent verbal and written communication skills; Bachelor’s degree or relevant work experience required; Travel may be up to 10%

Nice to have

Workday Adaptive Planning Certification; Advanced degree preferred

Benefits

Eligible for Workday Bonus Plan or role-specific commission/bonus; Annual refresh stock grants; Flexible work schedule (Flex Work); Comprehensive benefits package