• Technology Modernization - Workday Manager

    Grant Thornton (Boston, MA)


    Technology Modernization – Workday Manager

     

    As an Workday Manager within the Technology Modernization Practice, you will help organizations proactively shape and implement their overall strategy and supporting initiatives. Specific to client interaction, you will play a key role in the delivery of engagements and work with chief operating officers, chief financial officers, and other senior client leaders to demonstrate your subject matter expertise as we seek to help them implement solutions in support of their broader strategy and goal of creating value.

    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

    + Manage full life cycle implementations

    + Manage resources and budget on client projects

    + Manage teams in the identification of business requirements, functional design, process design (including scenario design, flow mapping), prototyping, testing, training, defining support procedures

    + Identify business opportunities to increase usability and profitability of information architecture

    + Experience with program leadership, governance and change enablement

    + Meet or exceed targeted billing hours (utilization)

    + Assist practice leadership in creating proposals, budgets, and work plans. Participate in other business development activities as appropriate

    + Interview campus and/or experienced candidates

    + Other duties as assigned

    You have the following technical skills, qualifications, and abilities:

    + Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business, Information Technology, MIS or related field required. A Master’s degree is a plus.

    + 4-6 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.

    + Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

    + Knowledge of software development lifecycles, key metrics and reports.

    + Experience with ERP Application Integration & back-end data connectivity applications.

    + Experience installing/configuring/implementing Oracle Applications.

    + Knowledge of Workday ERP (Financials, SCM, etc.)

    + 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

    + Ability to work additional hours as needed

    + Ability to travel to various client sites as needed on short notice

    + Travel percentage: up to 40%

    + Consistent with the firm’s hybrid work model, this position will require in-person attendance at least two days per week, either at a GT office or client site

     

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