Workday Financials - Workstream Lead - Sr Manager

Huron Consulting Services•Chicago, IL

About The Position

Huron is a global consultancy that collaborates with clients to drive strategic growth, ignite innovation and navigate constant change. Through a combination of strategy, expertise and creativity, we help clients accelerate operational, digital and cultural transformation, enabling the change they need to own their future. Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future. Senior Managers serve in an outward-facing, hands-on, and multi-faceted role combining project and engagement management, team leadership and material interaction with clients at both tactical and strategic levels. While activities vary based on project size/scope and individual skill-sets and strengths, the Senior Manager can expect to spend considerable time on client-facing engagements through all project phases (pursuit to delivery), project management, and intensive data-analysis to implement impactful recommendations. Additionally, Senior Managers time will revolve around overall practice development, the mentorship of Coachees (when assigned), and general project/organizational administrative tasks.

Requirements

8-10 years of experience in Workday and the Healthcare industry.
Experience and extensive knowledge in most of the Workday financial functional areas including but not limited to: FDM/Financial Accounting, Business Assets, Projects, Banking and Settlement.
Excellent communication skills - oral and written.
Interpersonal skills needed quickly to establish relationships of trust and collaboration.
Ability to establish credibility in the eyes of senior-level, financially literate university and hospital executives, including those that lead the sponsored research functions, on the basis of expertise, maturity, and professionalism.
Ability to train and participate in the professional development of Huron staff in both project or workstream management and technical dimensions.
Excellent time-management and prioritization skills.
Ability to manage 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.
Desire and willingness to learn new tools, techniques, concepts, and methodologies.

Nice To Haves

Workday Certification or equivalent practical experience in one or more of the following; Grants Management, Financial Accounting, Business Assets, Procure to Pay, Supplier Accounts.
Experience leading Workday Financials design and customer confirmation sessions.
Experience configuring all aspects of Workday Financials and the related Customer Accounts functionality.
Experience configuring or a deep understanding of Workday Payroll Accounting and Effort Certification.
Experience with project or workstream planning and management.
Proven thought leadership as indicated by speaking engagements and/or publications.

Responsibilities

Serve as project leadership for a specific client project Workday implementation.
Provide subject matter expertise across Workday Financial modules.
Lead cross-functional teams through design, build, testing, and deployment phases.
Manage client-facing engagements through all project phases (pursuit to delivery).
Perform project management.
Conduct intensive data-analysis to implement impactful recommendations.
Engage in overall practice development.
Mentor Coachees (when assigned).
Perform general project/organizational administrative tasks.