Workday Adaptive Planning Consultant

Work you’ll do
As a Workday Adaptive Planning Sr Consultant, you will team with Workday colleagues as well as members from the client team on comprehensive, full-lifecycle (Financials, SCM or Adaptive Planning) implementation initiatives supporting finance, supply chain or manufacturing and distribution planning/execution transformations utilising the proven, adaptive implementation approach which emphasizes flexibility, integrated client involvement, and rapid delivery of value.
Clients consist mostly of Large Federal Government Departments with complex Workday implementations.
As senior consultant you will lead project workstreams, identify and document business requirements and management requirements. Provide functional design, prototyping (including scenario design, flow mapping), testing, user training, defining support procedures. Additional duties may include: coordination of schedules, creation of documentation and collateral, creation and execution of test / use cases, configuration of Workday software, assisting with prioritisation and sequencing of the workstream’s efforts and assisting project leadership as required.
Qualifications
Accountabilities include, but are not limited to:
Analysis and evaluation of business requirements through a structured methodical approach
Interpretation of technical and business requirements to design end-to-end solutions
Define the solution scope, time, cost and risk by translating business requirements into a set of functional and non-functional deliverables.
Estimate and plan project deliverables and success criteria
Identify project Risks and Assumptions
Deliver successful projects within agreed parameters of scope, time and cost
Undertake unit testing for all functionality
Communicate with stakeholders, business and technical project teams to ensure the roles and responsibilities for the solution deliver are understood
Identify all potential Change Requests and work with designated Principal Consultant/ Project Manager on these variations
Participate in Post Implementation Review and assume ownership of any actions
Provide ongoing support for and communication with customers.
Skills and experience
Greater than 3 years’ experience in delivering Workday Adaptive Planning software applications
Relevant experience in the design, build and implementation of Solutions
Previous experience in a customer-centric culture
Background in financial roles within the corporate sector is desirable
A genuine talent for grasping complex business problems and engineering effective solutions
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Skills researching, designing and implementing customer solutions and programs
Expertise in using relevant software
Ability to use economic, financial, market, and industry data to understand and improve business results
Ability to obtain information and identify key issues and relationships relevant to achieving a long-range goal or vision
Ability to coach and develop others in their current or future job responsibilities
Ability to identify process improvement opportunities
Customer centric, you’re a customer advocate and know what it takes to deliver a compelling customer experience

Work arrangement
Yes