Workday Transformation Lead — Implement & Elevate

Grant Thornton (US); Fort Lauderdale (FL); On-site; USD 147,000 - 197,000; Full time

Job summary

Grant Thornton is seeking a Workday Manager to advise and implement solutions for clients within the Technology Transformation Practice. You will drive full lifecycle Workday implementations, from planning and design to build and deployment, collaborating across cross-functional teams.

The role requires extensive Workday knowledge, professional certification, strong communication, leadership, and the ability to manage time-sensitive projects. Travel up to 40% is expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, HR, Information Technology, MIS, or related field required
• Minimum 4 years of related work experience in a similar consulting practice or function servicing cross-industry clients at a national level
• Minimum of 4 full life cycle implementations of Workday
• Knowledge of Workday modules
• Industry recognized professional certification required
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Knowledge of software development lifecycles, key metrics, and reports
• Experience with application integration & back-end data connectivity applications
• Experience installing/configuring/implementing Workday Applications
• Exposure or training on Workday Applications
• Knowledge of Workday Applications
• Proven ability delivering complex and time sensitive projects
• Strong leadership skills, able to conduct meetings and write technically oriented documents
• Able to work with clients to understand current state processes and define future state processes based on business objectives
• Can travel as needed. Expected travel is up to 40%

Responsibilities

• Assist in full life cycle implementations including planning, design, & build phases
• Document 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
• Participate in full life cycle implementations
• Assist in identifying business requirements, functional design, process design, prototyping, testing, training, defining support procedures
• Participate in pre-sales activities as needed
• Meet or exceed targeted billing hours (utilization)
• Other duties as assigned

Skills

Workday knowledge

Client communication

Leadership

Requirements gathering

Training material creation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting/HR/IT/MIS

Master’s degree (plus)

Tools

Workday modules

Workday integrations

Job description

Grant Thornton is seeking a Workday Manager to advise and implement solutions for clients within the Technology Transformation Practice. You will drive full lifecycle Workday implementations, from planning and design to build and deployment, collaborating across cross-functional teams.

The role requires extensive Workday knowledge, professional certification, strong communication, leadership, and the ability to manage time-sensitive projects. Travel up to 40% is expected.