Senior Workday Financials Consultant

US047 Mercer (US) LLC; Broadway; Remote; USD 111,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a talented individual to lead Workday Financials implementations. This role involves overseeing the complete implementation lifecycle, ensuring project deliverables meet timelines and budgets. You'll collaborate with clients to enhance their financial management capabilities through Workday technology. Join a vibrant and inclusive culture that values professional development and offers a competitive rewards package. If you're passionate about transforming businesses and optimizing financial processes, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Health and welfare benefits

Tuition assistance

401K savings

Employee assistance programs

Performance-based incentives

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Workday implementation experience required.
• Must be Workday Finance Certified with deep configuration knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Lead Workday Financials design sessions and document key decisions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to align Workday solutions with client objectives.

Skills

Workday Finance Certification

Workday FDM

Financial Reporting

Leadership Skills

Communication Skills

Presentation Skills

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance

Tools

Workday Financials

Job description

As part of Mercer, the world’s largest HR consulting firm, our Digital Solutions practice is a certified Workday implementation partner and the digital consulting arm of Mercer. Digital Solutions specializes in business and cloud consulting and is dedicated to transforming our clients' businesses. We leverage expertise in big data, cloud computing, and enterprise services and design to provide our customers with full-lifecycle solutions. Our Workday practice consists of specialists with deep expertise in Human Capital Management, Payroll, Finance, process improvement, historical data conversion, and cloud software integrations.

We are seeking talented individuals to join our Digital Solutions practice at Mercer. This remote role may be based anywhere in the United States:

What can you expect?

In this lead-level role, you will be responsible for overseeing the complete implementation lifecycle of Workday Financials modules, supporting our clients through the entire lifecycle of Workday implementations and ensuring project deliverables are met within the specified timelines and budget.

You will help our clients leverage Workday technology to enhance and unify Finance, Human Resources, and talent management, enabling them to optimize their financial management capabilities.

We will count on you to:

1. Lead Workday Financials design sessions with clients to gather requirements and document key decisions.
2. Collaborate with stakeholders to understand and analyze business requirements, ensuring that the Workday solution aligns with the client's objectives; then translating business requirements into Workday Financials configuration, and leading the configuration of Workday modules through multiple prototype environments to fulfill client-specific needs, enhancing functionality and user experience.
3. Provide recommended approaches and best practices for clients based on industry and client requirements.
4. Assist clients with data conversion from legacy systems into Workday.
5. Provide guidance and direction to clients during various testing cycles of prototypes.

What you need to have:

1. Must be Workday Finance Certified (Workday Services functional certification), with 5+ years of Workday implementation experience and a total of 10-15 years of Financials experience.
2. Must have Workday FDM experience.
3. A deep understanding of Workday's configuration options.
4. Experience working with the various phases of an implementation lifecycle and knowledge of implementation methodology.
5. Experience in designing and building financial reports such as balance sheet and P&L.
6. Outstanding leadership, communication, and presentation skills are essential.

What makes you stand out?

1. Workday implementation experience in a lead role on one or more of the following areas: Financial Accounting, Supply Chain, or Adaptive Planning.
2. Experience developing FDM as a lead.
3. Bachelor’s Degree (Accounting or Finance) preferred.

Why join our team:

We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work, and supportive leaders. We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have an impact for colleagues, clients, and communities. Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being.

Mercer, a business of Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC), is a global leader in helping clients realize their investment objectives, shape the future of work, and enhance health and retirement outcomes for their people. Marsh McLennan is a global leader in risk, strategy, and people, advising clients in 130 countries across four businesses: Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer, and Oliver Wyman. With annual revenue of $23 billion and more than 85,000 colleagues, Marsh McLennan helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit mercer.com, or follow on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh McLennan is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive, and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, veteran status (including protected veterans), or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by contacting us.

The applicable base salary range for this role is $111,600 to $223,200. The base pay offered will be determined on factors such as experience, skills, training, location, certifications, education, and any applicable minimum wage requirements. Decisions will be determined on a case-by-case basis. In addition to the base salary, this position may be eligible for performance-based incentives. We are excited to offer a competitive total rewards package which includes health and welfare benefits, tuition assistance, 401K savings and other retirement programs as well as employee assistance programs.

Applications will be accepted until: January 31, 2025.