AES Workday Senior Associate (Sr. Analyst) - Consulting - Adaptive

Line of Service

Advisory

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

Workday

Management Level

Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary

A career in our Managed Services team will provide you an opportunity to collaborate with a wide array of teams to help our clients implement and operate new capabilities, achieve operational efficiencies, and harness the power of technology.

Our Application Evolution Services team will provide you with the opportunity to help organizations harness the power of their enterprise applications by optimizing the technology while driving transformation and innovation to increase business performance. We assist our clients in capitalizing on technology improvements, implementing new capabilities, and achieving operational efficiencies by managing and maintaining their application ecosystems. We help our clients maximize the value of their Workday investment by managing the support and continuous transformation of their solutions in the areas of human resources, talent management and finance operations.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

As a Senior Associate, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Use feedback and reflection to develop self awareness, personal strengths and address development areas.
• Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.
• Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry or sector trends.
• Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.
• Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.
• Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.
• Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.
• Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Job Summary - 

A career in our Managed Services team will provide you an opportunity to collaborate with a wide array

of teams to help our clients implement and consulting new capabilities, achieve operational efficiencies,

and harness the power of technology. Our Application Evolution Services team will provide you with the

opportunity to help organizations harness the power of their enterprise applications by optimizing the

technology while driving transformation and innovation to increase business performance. We assist

our clients in capitalizing on technology improvements, implementing new capabilities, and achieving

operational efficiencies by managing and maintaining their application ecosystems. We help our clients

maximize the value of their Workday investment by managing the support and continuous

transformation of their solutions in the areas of human resources, talent management and finance

operations.

Minimum Degree Required (BQ) *:

 Bachelor’s Degree

Degree Preferred:  

Bachelor's degree

Required Field(s) of Study (BQ):  

Preferred Field(s) of Study:

Minimum Year(s) of Experience (BQ) *: US

Minimum of 3 years of experience

Certification(s) Preferred:

Preferred Knowledge/Skills *:

Demonstrates a thorough level of abilities with, and/or a proven record of success as both an individual contributor and team member with focus on deep expertise, continuous execution, throughput and quality

• Proficient in overseeing a support ticketing queue with multiple open items, demonstrating strong written and oral communication skills.
• Capable of leading client status meetings and extracting relevant metrics.
• Handles client relationships, confirming effective communication.
• Offers functional and/or technical subject matter expertise.
• Directs process redesign efforts.
• Leads technical and test teams for the implementation of functionality.
• Provides recommendations to change activities to confirm business adoption and provides effective user training;
• Manages the complete project lifecycle to confirm timely project delivery;
• Meets with stakeholders throughout the organization to confirm a comprehensive set of requirements, aligned to business objectives, gaining a complete understanding of current and future state business processes;
• Provides in-depth knowledge of the Workday application and evaluates the customer’s processes against the standard Workday functionality;
• Demonstrates experience in use of Workday in a support/AMS environment;
• Documents the business requirements which express what actions a solution should take and what outcome is expected;
• Is responsible for fixes and enhancements to the application to achieve the customer’s business requirements;
• Has industry experience and understands challenges and risks when providing professional services and supporting vertical applications and localizations;
• Demonstrated ability to:
  • Analyze and understand business problems;
  • Model data and processes;
  • Conduct workshops and training sessions;
  • Plan and carry out system and user acceptance testing
• Familiar with and experienced in:
  • Core application functionality;
  • Implementation Methodology;
  • Application technology stack;
• ITIL process knowledge/understanding is highly preferred;
• Active Workday Adaptive Planning/Adaptive Insights certification;
• 2+ years of experience and working knowledge with Planning Budgeting Forecasting and Management Reporting in functional roles;
• Experience in multiple full lifecycle EPM projects with deep understanding and expertise in designing and implementing complex models like:
  • Financial Planning, e.g., Revenue Planning, Expense Planning, Projects Planning, Capital Planning, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Planning;
  • Workforce Planning, e.g., Headcount/FTE and Compensation Planning, Resource Supply and Demand Planning;
  • Operational Planning, e.g., Sales Planning;
• Ability to work on multiple projects;
• Subject Matter Expertise on Budgeting Planning and Forecasting while identifying opportunities for automation and process improvements.
• Ability to work with the client and drive design sessions and help customers resolve issues requiring in depth expertise.
• Ability to help customers resolve functional issues requiring in depth expertise in the Adaptive solution.
• Experience in creating reports utilizing advanced Excel skills and dashboards;
• Analyze Workday release updates to understand impacts of feature changes, in relation to clients existing configuration.
• Good to have Workday Finance/HCM/Integration certification; and;
• Functional experience and knowledge of Workday Finance/Accounting, reporting/consolidation is an advantage.

Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)

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Degrees/Field of Study preferred:

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Required Skills

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Travel Requirements

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

Government Clearance Required?

Job Posting End Date