Huron Consulting Group - Workday Finance Module Functional Manager

Workday Finance Functional Manager (10-20 yrs)

Job Description Summary :

- The multi-faceted role you've been looking for Managers play a vibrant, integral role at Huron. Their invaluable knowledge reflects in the projects they manage, and the teams they lead. Known for being politically savvy, they build long-standing partnerships with clients, while collaborating with colleagues to solve their most important challenges.

- In fact, they shape and deliver results that seamlessly align with client goals, visions and missions. Remarkably versatile, our Managers also spend significant time mentoring junior staff on the engagement team-where they tirelessly share expertise as well as feedback and encouragement. This benefits Huron profoundly as it promotes a culture of respect, unity, collaboration, and personal achievement.

The Consulting Manager will be responsible to:

- Develop and maintain project plans.

- Translate business needs into practical solutions.

- Build best practices within planning, forecasting and reporting processes and implementing new performance reporting, planning and forecasting processes within the Hyperion Planning toolset.

- Tune and optimize Planning and Essbase applications

- Design and build of reports using Workday Financial Reporting.

- Provide expertise in Workday Financial Application Management.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Minimum 8 years of Experience implementing workday

- Certification in Workday Financials is a must (FDM, Grants, Spends, Accounting, Invoicing, Customer Accounts & Customer Contracts, Procure-to-Pay Fundamentals, Supply Chain Management etc.)

- Experience with estimating, implementation planning and leading Workday Financials Project activities

- In-depth knowledge of Workday security framework, business process configuration

- Proven experience as a Functional Financial Consultant and hands-on Workday configuration experience

- Subject Matter Expertise on Financial processes, reports while identifying opportunities for automation and process improvements

- Ability to establish credibility in the eyes of senior-level, financially literate university and hospital executives based on expertise, maturity, and professionalism

- Analyze Workday release updates to understand impacts of feature changes, in relation to clients existing configuration

- Minimum of one full life cycle implementation with Workday Finance

- Help convert legacy data into Workday and assist clients in testing the designed solutions.

- Experience in creating custom reports

- Excellent time-management and prioritization skills