Workday Accounting Center - Director - US or Canada

Huron Consulting Services•Chicago, IL

1d•$210,000 - $275,000

About The Position

Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. We collaborate with education organizations to develop strategies and implement solutions that enable the transformative change our clients need to own their future. Together, we empower clients to drive innovation, create sustainable funding streams and deliver better student outcomes. Today, leaders of higher education institutions and academic medical centers are spending too much time reacting to market forces, rather than focusing on the essential priorities that help students, faculty and staff thrive. The most productive path forward requires an intentional approach and innovative thinking, whereby stakeholders across the entire institution rally around a shared vision and embrace the hard work of effecting change. You’ll help our clients to achieve organizational effectiveness, improve student outcomes, implement new technologies and align resources and investments to ensure long-term sustainability. Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future. What does it mean to head up a world-class tech team, one with deep collective knowledge and admirable achievement? It means you’ve ascended to the rank of Huron Technical Director. worthy of industry-wide respect and recognition. When you take on this key role, you inherit a host of responsibilities, challenges, and rewards. Imagine the difference you can make by providing leadership, coaching, and mentorship to analysts, associates, managers, subcontractors, and client personnel that rely profoundly on such guidance and supervision. Technical Directors engage in a multitude of industry and Practice responsibilities. They identify gaps in practice knowledge… discover strategies to enhance capabilities… develop detailed project plans… manage budgets and resource loads …and leverage expertise across the organization. They also handle engagement economics, develop/manage senior level client relationships, and ensure high-level quality/efficiency on projects and deliverables. The responsibilities of Tech Director are considerable. But the job’s challenges… complexities… contributions… they will bring you robust professional growth—and profound personal satisfaction.

Requirements

5 + years of related experience with Workday implementation experience- with Workday Financials
Certification in Workday Accounting Center.
Project implementation experience in one or more of the following areas: Workday Financials-Workday Financial Accounting, is the foundation for all Workday Financial solutions.
Should have at least 1 -2 Full Life Cycle implementations with Accounting Center
Handle all the accounting activities and activity reports.
Identifying the needed security groups for financial accounting layout, arrangement of organization's mandatory accounting details, concept application of the favored approach to the account setup,.
Actuals ledger creation, ledger creation, and also maintaining the ledger period standing.
Certification is a MUST!
Excellent communication skills - oral and written - and the interpersonal skills needed quickly to establish relationships of trust and collaboration-
The ability to train and participate in the professional development of Huron staff in both project-management and technical dimensions-
The ability to contribute on multiple projects of differing scale and duration.
Strong analytical skills used to translate information from meetings into documentation that can be shared with meeting participants and project teams-
A desire and willingness to learn new tools, techniques, concepts, and methodologies.
Huron requires a Bachelor’s Degree in a field related to this position or equivalent work experience.
Willingness to travel up to 50% of the time.