Senior Workday Transformation Specialist

Grant Thornton (US); Southfield (MI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 141,000; Full time

Job summary

Grant Thornton (US) is seeking a Workday Senior Associate to deliver advisory and implementation services across client organizations within the Technology Transformation Practice. From day one, you’ll be supported by a broader Transformation team to help clients reach their vision while advancing your own career.

Your day-to-day includes leading full life cycle Workday implementations, documenting requirements, designing configurations, testing, and developing training materials to drive

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, SCM, Workday Technology, MIS or related field required.
• Minimum 2 years of related work experience in a similar consulting practice or function servicing cross-industry clients at a national level.
• Experience with a full life cycle implementation of Workday or similar applications.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Knowledge of software development lifecycles, key metrics, and reports.
• Experience installing/configuring/implementing Workday Applications.
• Proven ability delivering complex and time sensitive projects.
• Able to work with clients to understand current state processes and define future state processes based on business objectives.
• Ability to travel to various client sites as needed on short notice.
• Can travel as needed. Expected travel is up to 40%.

Responsibilities

• Assist in full life cycle implementations including planning, design, & build phases.
• Responsible for documenting business requirements, system design and transformational goals.
• Configure applications and conduct iterative unit testing.
• Help to create training materials and quick reference guides to support user adoption.
• Conduct training classes to prepare end users for deployment.
• Provide post-production support.
• Assist with full life cycle implementations.
• Assist teams in identifying business requirements, functional design, process design, prototyping, testing, training, defining support procedures.
• Meet or exceed targeted billing hours (utilization).
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Workday experience

Communication skills

Project delivery

Software lifecycle knowledge

Workday configuration

Travel willingness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting/SCM/Workday Technology/MIS

Job description

Grant Thornton (US) is seeking a Workday Senior Associate to deliver advisory and implementation services across client organizations within the Technology Transformation Practice. From day one, you’ll be supported by a broader Transformation team to help clients reach their vision while advancing your own career.

Your day-to-day includes leading full life cycle Workday implementations, documenting requirements, designing configurations, testing, and developing training materials to drive