Grant Thornton

Transformation - Workday Solution Architect

Grant Thornton$169K — $226K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting, HR, IT, MIS, or related field; Master's preferred
  • 4+ years of experience in consulting for cross-industry clients
  • 4 successful Workday full life cycle implementations
  • Industry-recognized professional certification required
  • Strong communication and leadership skills
  • Experience with application integration and back-end data connectivity
  • Ability to manage complex projects and facilitate meetings

Responsibilities

  • Assist with full life cycle implementations from planning to deployment
  • Document business requirements and transformational goals
  • Configure applications and conduct unit testing
  • Create training materials and conduct user training classes
  • Provide post-production support for systems
  • Identify business requirements and design functional processes
  • Meet targeted billing hours and perform other assigned duties

Benefits

  • Supportive team environment for professional growth
  • Opportunities for training and user adoption resources
  • Exposure to diverse client industries
  • Potential for leadership development roles
  • Travel opportunities up to 40%
Full Job Description
Job Description

As a Workday Solution Architect, you'll perform advisory and implementation services to address business needs throughout client organizations for the Technology Transformation Practice - all with the resources, environment, and support to help you excel.

From day one, you'll be empowered by the greater Technology Transformation team to help clients make the moves that will help them achieve their vision and help you achieve more, confidently.

Your day-to-day may include:
  • Assist in full life cycle implementations including planning, design, & build phases
  • Responsible for documenting business requirements, system design and transformational goals
  • Configure applications and conduct iterative unit testing
  • Help to create training materials and quick reference guides to support user adoption
  • Conduct training classes to prepare end users for deployment
  • Provide post-production support
  • Participate in full life cycle implementations
  • Assist in the identification of business requirements, functional design, process design (including scenario design, flow mapping), prototyping, testing, training, defining support procedures
  • Meet or exceed targeted billing hours (utilization)
  • Other duties as assigned


You have the following technical skills and qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting, HR, Information Technology, MIS, or related field required, Master's degree is a plus
  • Minimum 4 years of related work experience in a similar consulting practice or function servicing cross-industry clients at a national level
  • Minimum of 4 full life cycle implementations of Workday
  • Knowledge of Workday modules
  • Industry recognized professional certification required
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Knowledge of software development lifecycles, key metrics, and reports
  • Experience with application integration & back-end data connectivity applications
  • Experience installing/configuring/implementing Workday Applications
  • Exposure or training on Workday Applications
  • Knowledge of Workday Applications
  • Proven ability delivering complex and time sensitive projects
  • Strong leadership skills, able to conduct meetings and write technically oriented documents
  • Able to work with clients to understand current state processes and define future state processes based on business objectives
  • Can travel as needed. Expected travel is up to 40%


The base salary range for this position is between $169,280 and $226,412. Placement within the pay range is at Grant Thornton's discretion, and it is based on multiple factors, including but not limited to, job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, progression within the role, geographic location, and internal equity. At Grant Thornton, compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each position and candidate

About Grant Thornton

Grant Thornton LLP is the American member firm of Grant Thornton International, the seventh largest accounting network in the world by combined fee income. Grant Thornton LLP is the sixth largest U.S. accounting and advisory organization. The firm operates 59 offices across the US with approximately 8,500 employees, 550 partners, and produces annual revenue in excess of US$1.9 billion. During the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine, The Times reported that Grant Thornton is in line to earn millions of pounds for acting as trustees in a bankruptcy case on behalf of the Russian state-owned DIA, who bypassed sanction regimes to obtain funds and assets from abroad in order to fund the war in Ukraine.
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