WillHirePrincipal Consultant, Finance & Accounting Systems
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About the Team
Workday is hiring professional services consultants in Pune. This is a unique opportunity to join an outstanding organization. We are passionate about providing our workmates with an 'Employees First' experience.
About the Role
As a Principal Functional Consultant, you will be responsible for ensuring the successful implementation of Workday's product solutions. You will provide your implementation expertise to our clients while understanding how to best configure and test Workday solutions to meet their business requirements
About You
Responsibilities:
• Work closely with the customer's project team to design, configure and deploy their functional requirements.
• Become an expert in the Workday Financial Management product suite
• Perform the following on an engagement: understand client business requirements, configure the Workday solution, demonstrate the configurations through the development of prototype systems, assist the client in testing the Workday solution
• Work with the client to help convert legacy data into Workday
• Assist the integration consulting team to configure and test integrations between Workday and third party/custom solutions
• Understand Workday’s Implementation Methodology and use it on all engagements
• Help mentor new consultants
• Ensure the client takes advantage of Workday best practices
• Ensure the client is referenceable once the client is in production
• Completing and maintaining product expertise and Workday Certification(s) along with familiarity with Workday roadmap.
• Provide the Engagement Manager with status reports and keep them apprised of overall project status
Basic qualification
12–15 years of enterprise financial systems experience, with deep specialization in Workday Accounting Center or comparable platforms such as Oracle Accounting Hub (or other enterprise Accounting Center solutions).
Workday Financials / Accounting Center Certification is highly desirable; equivalent certifications in relevant accounting hub platforms will also be considered.
Proven track record of end-to-end Accounting Center implementations — including design, configuration, integration, reconciliation, and production deployment.
Strong grounding in financial systems domain (GL, Subledger Accounting, Financial Accounting, Revenue, Intercompany, Close & Consolidation processes).
Open to candidates with relevant Accounting Center implementation experience across other enterprise ERP ecosystems, provided they demonstrate transferable functional depth and architecture understanding aligned to Workday Financials.
Other qualification
Self-motivated professional with strong follow-through, who consistently keeps commitments to customers and fellow employees
Can work in a fast paced, fast-growth, high-energy environment and execute multiple high priority activities concurrently
Passion for data accuracy and completeness
Strong analytical and problem solving skills both technically and functionally
Outstanding research skills and resourcefulness
Strong planning, scheduling, and organization skills
Collaborative teammate who can communicate effectively with all stakeholders
Our Approach to Flexible Work
With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.
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