Senior Workday Student Financials/Financial Aid Consultant

Kognitiv Inc.; Toronto; On-site; USD 76,000 - 196,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Workday Student Finance Consultant to enhance client satisfaction through expert implementation and support of Workday solutions. In this dynamic role, you will engage with clients, analyze their needs, and provide tailored recommendations while leading projects of varying complexity. This position emphasizes building strong relationships and delivering exceptional service, ensuring clients maximize their Workday investments. Join a forward-thinking organization that values employee engagement and offers a collaborative work environment where your contributions will make a significant impact.

Qualifications

• 4+ years leading Workday Student implementations required.
• Deep knowledge of Workday Student Financials and Financial Aid necessary.

Responsibilities

• Implement and configure Workday Student solutions for clients.
• Lead and manage multiple projects while ensuring client satisfaction.

Skills

Workday Student Financials

Workday Student Financial Aid

Project Management

Client Relationship Management

Communication Skills

Consulting Skills

Microsoft Excel

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Kognitiv Inc. seeks to be the best in the Workday ecosystem in both customer and employee satisfaction. We believe happy employees go hand-in-hand with happy customers. We truly believe that if our employees feel engaged, challenged, and empowered every day, they will provide top-notch service for our customers. We encourage our employees to "act like an owner" each and every day in the work they do and their contributions to our fast growing organization.

Senior Workday Student Finance / Financial Aid Consultants work in partnership with clients and internal teams to ensure maximum value out of a client's Workday investment. The role is responsible for implementing Workday Post Production support initiatives across Workday Student module(s), whether independently, as a team member, or in a leadership capacity. Senior Consultants drive high client satisfaction through building relationships with clients and delivering impeccable customer service.

Responsibilities

• Implement and configure Workday Student solutions for a global customer base. Design, configure, test, and deploy business requirements across multiple Workday Student module(s) while remaining flexible to clients' changing needs.
• Conduct working sessions with clients to gather, understand, and analyze business requirements. Assess actual client needs and propose recommendations and/or alternative solutions to meet client goals. Advise clients on best practices, recognize, and recommend process improvements, and implement system enhancements.
• Lead, consult, execute, and prioritize conflicting demands on medium to high complexity projects across multiple, concurrent clients without supervision for area(s) of expertise.
• Frequently discuss, and can articulate to clients, lessons learned from previous client experience, Workday best practices, as well as Kognitiv's point of view. Ensure customers understand and take advantage of Kognitiv and Workday best practices.
• Manage the project scope, quality, and timeline for area(s) of expertise. Provide guidance, instruction, direction, and coaching to team members. Review team members' work as necessary to ensure quality.
• Contribute to the organization's knowledge management repository through formal and informal avenues (ex: Q&A, documented deliverables, facilitation of Workday knowledge sharing sessions, regularly posting best practices, etc).
• Act as a mentor and coach for less experienced team members.
• Strive to innovate and suggest new approaches to deploy Workday efficiently and effectively.
• Meet key performance indicators set for this role (ex: utilization target, service level agreements, customer satisfaction scores, etc).

Qualifications

• 4+ years' experience leading and deploying Workday Student implementations, supporting Workday Post Production / AMS Services, or as a client of Workday.
• Deep knowledge of Workday Student Financials or Workday Student Financial Aid, Workday Student Core, Security and Reporting is required. Ability to lead medium to large projects (acquisition, phase X, etc) for the full project lifecycle in areas(s) of expertise– from initial scoping/planning, discovery, design, testing, and go live.
• Ability to be effectively and actively engaged on multiple, parallel projects of all sizes in both supporting and leadership roles.
• Ability to prioritize and organize work to ensure overall timeliness and quality standards with no supervision. Ability to effectively manage against timelines, deadlines, and goals.
• Demonstrated commitment and achievement to delivery excellence and client satisfaction; strong client focus with the ability to understand client needs and build relationships.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written. Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with customers and colleagues in a remote working environment.
• Strong consulting skills and a proven ability to influence a wide variety of audiences. Proven consultative skills to guide client and internal discussions to agreement of solutions in a timely manner.
• Willingness and ability to mentor and/or manage other consultants.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and to adapt to frequent change.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills required.
• Ability to meet travel requirements (<5% a year).

Estimated Pay Range:

USA Pay Range: $76,000 USD - $195,510 USD

Kognitiv is committed to a transparent and equitable compensation structure. Our decisions on employment offers and compensation levels are based on factors such as skill set, experience, education, market data, internal equity, certifications, geography, and other business and organizational needs. The presented base pay range considers a wide range of factors, but it's important to note it's not a guarantee. Bonus and incentive eligibility vary by role. For details on our comprehensive benefits package, please visit our careers site at careers.kognitivinc.com/benefits.

Kognitiv is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. Kognitiv will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in a manner consistent with the requirements of the law, including any applicable fair chance law.

Applicants for employment in the country in which they are applying (Employing Country) must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the Employing Country and with Kognitiv.

Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Kognitiv or an affiliated Kognitiv business may not be eligible for consideration.

This job postings' application deadline is an estimate, but ultimately the fill date is flexible and the job will remain open until filled. Any updates on deadlines will be communicated through this job posting.

Estimated Application Deadline: 2025-05-24