Transformation – Workday Senior Associate

Grant Thornton; Wareham (MA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Grant Thornton in the United States is seeking a Workday Senior Associate to perform advisory and implementation services across client organizations within the Technology Transformation Practice, with the resources and support to excel.

From day one, you’ll join a collaborative team to plan, design, build and deploy Workday solutions, document business requirements, train end users, and provide post‑production support; travel up to 40% is expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, SCM, Workday Technology, MIS or related field.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Assist in full life cycle Workday implementations across client projects.
• Document business requirements, system design, and transformational goals.
• Configure applications and conduct iterative testing.
• Provide post-production support and end-user training.
• Travel to client sites up to 40% as needed.
• Meet billing targets and support multiple engagements.

Skills

Workday

Client advisory

Communication

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in relevant field

Tools

Workday Applications

Job description

Job Description

As a Workday Senior Associate, you’ll perform advisory and implementation services to address business needs throughout client organizations for the Technology Transformation Practice - all with the resources, environment, and support to help you excel.

From day one, you’ll be empowered by the greater Transformation team to help clients make the moves that will help them achieve their vision and help you achieve more confidently.

Your day-to-day may include

• 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 the identification of business requirements, functional design, process design (including scenario design, flow mapping), prototyping, testing, training, defining support procedures
• Meet or exceed targeted billing hours (utilization)
• Other duties as assigned

You have the following technical skills and 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%