Workday Adaptive Planning Consultant

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skills and next-generation technology to each business challenge. We serve clients in more than 120 countries with over 745,000 employees.

About the Accenture Workday Business Group: Accenture is a leading partner to Workday worldwide and has a track record of implementing some of the most significant Workday projects. We take pride in leading and advising our clients from early strategy discussions through technology implementations and transformation programs to support and operations. Learn more about our practice at www.accenture.com/workday.

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. You'll provide integrated, cloud-based financial and workforce planning solutions that put organizations on the fast track to a better way to work from rapid deployments to complete transformations.

We are seeking a Workday Adaptive Planning Consultant to join our fast-growing team. In this role, you will be responsible for providing consultation, implementation, and pre-sales activities for our Workday Adaptive Planning application.

Responsibilities:

1. Client Management: Manage day-to-day interactions with clients, client expectations, and relationships.
2. Delivery: Gain trusted advisor status with customers and client prospects by understanding their business requirements and developing strategies with them to gain tangible benefits to the business using Workday Adaptive Planning solutions.
3. Independently consult with external clients and participate in all stages of the project lifecycle, from planning and design phases through testing and deployment for Workday Adaptive Planning application by developing solutions to complex problems and projects across multiple domains or clients.
4. Become an SME in the Workday Adaptive product suite with a broad-based knowledge of Workday HCM or Fins, while also being able to architect financial and workforce planning solutions within the Workday Platform.
5. Partner with stakeholders to understand planning requirements, translating them into actionable configurations and integration requirements, provide solutions and recommendations to improve process, automation, data visualization, and integrity for the planning process by leveraging Workday best practices.
6. Business Development: Assist on the proposal development process and participate in pre-sales demos to sell Adaptive to the prospect clients.

Minimum Requirements:

1. Expert proficiency in Workday Workforce and Financial Planning is required.
2. Expert proficiency in Business Process Design, Requirements Analysis, and Workday Adaptive Planning is recommended.
3. 5+ years of consulting experience in implementing Adaptive or other EPM tools or working in the end-user environment with FP&A and/or Workforce Planning implementation experience in the industry.
4. Bachelor’s Degree in a field related to this position or equivalent professional experience.
5. Workday Adaptive Planning certification or successfully completing relevant Workday certification upon joining.
6. Ability to meet client travel requirements as needed.