Workday Certified HCM/Talent Architect

Accenture PLC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 68,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) plan

Bonus opportunities

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Workday Functional Lead to join a team delivering cloud-based Workday HCM solutions for finance, analytics, planning, and HR. You will guide requirements, design, testing, and deployment, while mentoring project staff and managing client relationships.

You’ll engage in workshops, formulate planning strategies, and advise on best practices, with travel potential up to 100% depending on client needs.

Qualifications

• Workday Partner Certification required.
• Minimum of 3 years consulting or client-side experience in Lead or similar role.
• Minimum of 3 years of working HCM functional experience.
• Minimum of 3 years of Workday Implementations.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years work experience). If Associate’s Degree must have equivalent minimum 6 year work experience.

Responsibilities

• Identify business requirements, design processes, prototype, test, train, and define support procedures.
• Architect the entire Workday HCM solution ensuring cohesive cross-functional impacts.
• Formulate budgeting, forecasting, and reporting strategies.
• Draft statements of work and client proposals.
• Manage vendor relationships and lead client workshops.
• Oversee resources and budget on client projects.
• Serve as escalation point for critical functional issues.
• Provide SME input to aid decision making for the functional solution.
• Lead, mentor, and evaluate project staff.
• Conduct working sessions with clients to gather and analyze requirements.
• Advise clients on industry standards and leading practices.

Skills

Workday

HCM knowledge

Leadership

Client relations

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years work experience)

Tools

Workday

Job description

Who We Are

We are Accenture, a global professional services company, searching for a Workday Functional Lead.

This individual will be part of a team of advisory professionals focused on cloud-based data-reporting operations that integrate and optimize the essential corporate functions of finance, analytics, planning and HR. For many of our clients, successfully getting their data operations into cloud environments is a major focus. The enterprise data-reporting software of Workday is a critical component of many of the cloud solutions we design, which is why Accenture has assembled a team of more than 2,000 Workday-certified professionals.

What’s In It For You

Help HR and Finance leaders define and execute their strategy and give them the adaptability they need in a fast-changing world.

To help you take your skillset beyond Workday technology, our Transformation Powered by Workday Training will help you take your consulting to a whole new level.

Take your Workday skills and career to the next level, mastering complex projects while expanding your leadership and advisory skills with a market-leading team.

As a Workday HCM/Talent Architect, your primary responsibilities may include:

• Manage teams in the identification of business requirements, functional design, process design (including scenario design, flow mapping), prototyping, testing, training, defining support procedures
• Architect Workday the entire HCM solution to ensure that all work streams are cohesive and cross functional impacts are considered and mitigated
• Formulate planning, budgeting, forecasting and reporting strategies
• Architect statements of work and/or client proposals
• Architect and manage vendor relationships
• Lead workshops for client education
• Manage resources and budget on client projects
• Serve as the escalation point for critical functional issue resolution
• Provide subject matter expertise to aid in decision making related to the functional solution
• Lead, mentor, counsel and manage performance metrics of project staff
• Conduct working sessions with clients to gather, understand, and analyze business requirements.
• Advise clients on industry standardsand leading practices.
• Understand and apply Workday and Accenturemethodologies.
• Provide the Delivery Lead with status updates and keep them apprised of overall project status.
• Demonstrate strong client and stakeholder management to achieve project objectives
• Ensure the client takes advantage of Workday best practices.
• Support innovation through the creation of new industry leading methods and assets

Why should I join the Accenture Workday team?

• Innovate every day. Be at the forefront of designing and delivering Workday solutions that push boundaries and create new opportunities for our clients.
• Lead with the industry’s best. Join an industry-recognized global cloud leader with more than 2000 Workday certified professionals collaborating to drive enterprise-wide transformational projects on a global scale. Accenture has worked with more than 600 clients to deliver Workday deployments to unlock the potential of their organizations.
• Learn and grow continuously. Harness unmatched training and professional development to help you build and advance your Workday, consultative and delivery skills. With learning resources, interactive classroom courses, real-life client simulations and ongoing mentoring available when you need it, you’ll expand your thinking beyond the core Workday implementation.

Who will be successful at Accenture?

It’s not just what you know or where you’ve been that propels success at Accenture: It’s who you are, fundamentally, as a person. We prize diversity in backgrounds and perspectives. Whatever your unique qualities, a few key traits should apply: You’re passionate about technology and motivated to apply the latest technology trends. You’re proactive and collaborative; a leader with effective communication skills. You’re driven by new challenges and are motivated to improve. You’re a creative problem solver with the flexibility to navigate uncertainty. You’re focused on the future with a desire to develop inclusive, responsible and sustainable solutions to complex challenges.

Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.

Here’s what you need:

• Workday Partner Certification
• Minimum of 3 years of consulting or client-side experience, most recently in a Lead or similar level role
• Minimum of 3 years of working of HCM Functional experience
• Minimum of 3 years of Workday Implementations
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years work experience). If Associate’s Degree must have equivalent minimum 6 year work experience.

Bonus points if you have:

• 6 years of Workday-related implementations
• Demonstrate knowledge of the HR function & processes
• Experience in Education or Government Workday implementations

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below.

We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 12/06/2026.

Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off.

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Role Location Annual Salary Range

• California $73,800 to $218,800
• Colorado $73,800 to $189,000
• Connecticut $73,800 to $189,000
• District of Columbia $78,500 to $201,300
• Illinois $68,300 to $189,000
• Maine $62,800 to $161,000
• Maryland $73,800 to $189,000
• Massachusetts $73,800 to $201,300
• Minnesota $73,800 to $189,000
• New York $68,300 to $218,800
• New Jersey $78,500 to $218,800
• Ohio $68,300 to $175,000
• Virginia $68,300 to $201,300
• Washington $80,200 to $201,300

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