Senior Consultant – Functional Specialist (Workday Financials)
About The Position
Alpha Alternatives, part of Alpha Group, is a specialist consulting business serving the alternative investment industry. We work with leading private equity, private credit, real estate, infrastructure, venture capital, and diversified asset managers to address complex business and operational challenges through industry expertise, management consulting, technology, data, and transformation delivery. Within Alpha Alternatives, the Management Company Operations (MCO) practice advises CFOs and finance leaders on driving meaningful organizational change through operational and technology transformation. We assess current-state operating models across people, process, data, and technology and partner with clients to design and implement scalable future-state solutions aligned with their business objectives. The Workday Practice sits within MCO and specializes in Workday implementation, optimization, solution health assessments, release readiness, and Application Management Services (AMS). The practice works closely with Alpha’s broader advisory, data, and technology teams to translate business requirements into scalable Workday solutions and provide continuity from strategy and design through implementation and ongoing support. Serve as a core functional delivery resource responsible for configuration, testing, data support, and documentation across assigned Workday Financials modules. The Senior Consultant works closely with functional leads and client teams to translate approved designs into a high-quality configured solution.
Requirements
- 3–5 years of hands-on Workday Financials configuration experience with at least two full-lifecycle deployments.
- Strong practical configuration, testing, data manipulation, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
- Experience in one or more Financials specialties such as General Ledger, Procure-to-Pay, Projects, Expenses, Billing, Accounting Center, or reporting.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to work effectively with functional leads and client stakeholders.
- Active Workday Financial Management / Financials Core certification.
Nice To Haves
- Relevant module specialty certifications such as Procure-to-Pay, Projects, Accounting Center, Expenses, or Reporting are preferred.
Responsibilities
- Own day-to-day tenant configuration and business process setup within assigned modules such as General Ledger, Procure-to-Pay, Expenses, Projects, Billing, Accounting Center, or related Financials capabilities.
- Participate in discovery and design workshops, document requirements and decisions, and support functional leads in translating requirements into configuration.
- Execute unit and system testing, identify system gaps, document issues, troubleshoot configuration defects, and support resolution through retesting.
- Prepare, map, validate, and load data using Workday-supported data-loading tools and templates; support reconciliation and conversion-cycle validation.
- Develop configuration workbooks, design documentation, test scripts, process documentation, and other functional deliverables.
- Work directly with client SMEs and project teams to validate requirements, demonstrate configuration, support testing, and resolve day-to-day questions.
- Manage assigned tasks and deadlines, raise risks and dependencies promptly, and coordinate with technical, data, reporting, and security resources.
- Maintain current knowledge of Workday releases and module capabilities and contribute reusable configuration patterns and lessons learned.
Benefits
- Vast opportunities to self-development, unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning
- Work-life balance with flexible schedule
- We offer a range of social events and meetups
- 25 days’ holiday in addition to public holidays
- Supplemented medical, dental and vision coverage
- 401(k) with employer match
- Wellness initiatives to promote healthy working, including an allowance for remote working technology
- Access to discounted travel, tickets, events, and more through our benefit partner
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
