Senior Consultant, Enterprise Performance Management - Workday Adaptive Planning

KPMG•Vancouver, BC

77d•$73,000 - $97,000

About The Position

At KPMG, you’ll join a team of diverse and dedicated problem solvers, connected by a common cause: turning insight into opportunity for clients and communities around the world. The new constant is change. Accelerating advances in technology and changes in business models are transforming the rules of the game. To respond to today’s pressures and adapt swiftly to tomorrow’s, businesses need to become more performance centric. Value lies in the ability to drive performance across the enterprise — from optimizing your operations and functions to getting the most from your data and technology. What is changing and why should Finance care? Finance must respond to the speed of disruption and the increasing demands for leading insights and analytics. This requires Finance to equip itself with the right tools, skills and capabilities to address critical business questions with newfound speed, accuracy and effectiveness. It means less time recording and verifying the numbers, more time leveraging real-time data to provide predictive analytics and interpreting the implications to the business. An integrated Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) solution, can pull together a range of internal and external data and incorporate sophisticated analytics to gain better insight and improve performance all the way to the bottom line. Our EPM Practice, as one of the key pillars of Finance and Digital Transformation is looking for Workday Adaptive Planning experienced professionals to join our talented team in Canada. Our team’s experience have been helping Finance organizations transcend finance’s role as a record-keeper and become performance and enterprise-focused, or true business partners. We are trusted advisors and leaders in budgeting, forecasting, consolidation, reporting and analytics with a particular focus on implementing technology solutions to enable these processes.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology. Post graduate degrees and professional designation is an asset.
Minimum 3 years of super-user experience or 2+ years implementation experience with Workday Adaptive Planning is preferred.
Experience working in a client facing role across a variety of industries and businesses.
Strong mix of business and functional knowledge related to budgeting and planning processes with a proven ability to communicate business requirements and understand the implications on the functional design.
Work closely in a collaborative team environment, lead teams and project deliverables.
Ability to present and demo product and solutions using MS Visio and or MS PowerPoint.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to clearly articulate, identify and define problems and develop creative solutions to address client requirements.
Experience in process reengineering, designing and implementing business performance management applications including budgeting, forecasting, planning, consolidation, and reporting.
Ability to travel within Canada and the US.

Nice To Haves

Workday Financials, Workday Adaptive Planning and or Workday Adaptive Platform Certification is a plus.
Workday Reporting Certification and Advanced Workday Reporting for Financials Certification is preferred.
Experience with Workday Adaptive Planning integrations and SQL language is a plus.

Responsibilities

Participate and lead scoping, implementation, and deployment projects of Workday Adaptive Planning projects.
Conduct client workshops, understand, and analyze business requirements, propose recommendations, and prepare solution blueprint.
Plan, architect, design, configure and test models and integrations.
Design and develop custom reports and dashboards.
Assist with testing configuration, provide knowledge transfer to clients and develop documentation as applicable.
Provide leadership, direction, and guidance to senior level client stakeholders and be seen as a subject matter expert.
Support the development of proposals, product demos, contribute to business development activities and support internal and external marketing events.
Proactively engage in learning and development activities to keep up with latest Workday Adaptive product features and capabilities, including broad integrated business planning industry leading practices.
Manage, mentor, and train Consultants and Senior Consultants within the EPM Practice.
Develop and foster network within KPMG advisory practice and with Workday partners.