Principal Financial Implementation Consultant

Workday•Chicago, IL

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

Your work days are brighter here. We’re obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, you’ll feel it. Not just in the products we build, but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. We’re in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workmates who’ve got your back. In return, we’ll give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, you’ve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too. About the Team Workday’s Functional Financials Consulting team's main purpose is to build an outstanding customer experience by delivering engaging and innovative consulting services to help customers, partners, and employees make the most of their Workday financial system. 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. We are looking for a hardworking, innovative, and collaborative Financials Consultant to join our team. In this role you will ensure the successful implementation of the Workday Financials solution with customers through product and implementation expertise. The ideal candidate for this position should have extensive experience implementing or supporting Financial systems, requirements capturing, configuration, data conversion, and testing. You should be detail oriented, self-motivated, proactive, results-oriented and able to successfully partner with customers and your project team. Be ready to be challenged and have fun!

Requirements

Prior experience implementing Workday as a customer or consultant is a MUST
A minimum of 7+ years as a customer or consultant in at least one of the following Financial solutions: Foundational Data Model (FDM), Financial Accounting, or Accounting Center
Passion for customer service
Proven project management experience
Functional experience
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Business analysis and requirements gathering abilities.
Ability to learn technology quickly through instruction and self-training.
Ability to travel up to 30% if needed

Nice To Haves

Experience deploying multiple projects simultaneously a plus

Responsibilities

Become a specialist in the Workday Financials product suite
Perform the following on an engagement: understand client business requirements, configure the Workday Financials solution, demonstrate the configurations through the development of prototype systems, assist the client in testing the Workday Financials solution
Work with the client to help convert legacy data into Workday
Assist the integration consulting team in helping 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 is referenceable once the client is in production
Share product knowledge with other consultants
Provide the Engagement Manager with status reports and keep them informed of overall project status
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