Grant Thornton

Transformation - Workday Solution Architect

Grant Thornton$100K — $130K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business, IT, MIS or related field; Master's preferred.
  • 4-6 years of related work experience in consulting across various industries.
  • Minimum of 4 full life cycle implementations of Workday.
  • Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
  • Knowledge of software development lifecycles and key reports.
  • Experience with ERP Application Integration and data connectivity.
  • Leadership capability in managing client engagements and project deliverables.

Responsibilities

  • Assist in full life cycle implementations from planning to build phases.
  • Document business requirements and system designs.
  • Configure applications and perform iterative unit testing.
  • Develop training materials to facilitate user adoption.
  • Conduct training sessions for end users before deployment.
  • Provide post-production support to clients.
  • Manage project resources and budget while ensuring quality delivery.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits recognizing diverse identities and responsibilities.
  • Eligibility for medical, dental, and vision insurance programs.
  • Paid sick leave of at least 72 hours for all roles.
  • Participation in 401(k) savings plan for seasonal employees.
  • Discretionary annual bonus based on performance for full-time employees.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Transformation - Workday Solution Architect

As a Workday Solution Architect within the Transformation Practice, you will help organizations proactively shape and implement their overall strategy and supporting initiatives. Specific to client interaction, you will play a key role in the delivery of engagements and work with chief operating officers, chief financial officers, and other senior client leaders to demonstrate your subject matter expertise as we seek to help them implement solutions in support of their broader strategy and goal of creating value.

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
  • Manage full life cycle implementations
  • Manage resources and budget on client projects
  • Manage teams in the identification of business requirements, functional design, process design (including scenario design, flow mapping), prototyping, testing, training, defining support procedures
  • Identify business opportunities to increase usability and profitability of information architecture
  • Experience with program leadership, governance and change enablement
  • Meet or exceed targeted billing hours (utilization)
  • Assist practice leadership in creating proposals, budgets, and work plans. Participate in other business development activities as appropriate
  • Interview campus and/or experienced candidates
  • Other duties as assigned

You have the following technical skills, qualifications, and abilities:
  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business, Information Technology, MIS or related field required. A Master's degree is a plus.
  • 4-6 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.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Knowledge of software development lifecycles, key metrics and reports.
  • Experience with ERP Application Integration & back-end data connectivity applications.
  • Experience installing/configuring/implementing Oracle Applications.
  • Knowledge of Workday ERP (Financials, SCM, etc.)
  • 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
  • Ability to work additional hours as needed
  • Ability to travel to various client sites as needed on short notice
  • Travel percentage: up to 40%
  • Consistent with the firm's hybrid work model, this position will require in-person attendance at least two days per week, either at a GT office or client site


Benefits:

We understand that your needs, responsibilities and experiences are different, and we think that's a good thing. That's why we support you with personalized and comprehensive benefits that recognize and empower all the identities, roles and aspirations that make you, well, you. For an overview of our benefit offerings, please visit: https://www.grantthornton.com/careers/rewards-and-benefits

  • Benefits for internship positions: Grant Thornton interns are eligible to participate in the firm's medical, dental and vision insurance programs and the firm's employee assistance program. Interns also receive a minimum of 72 hours of paid sick leave, and are paid for firm holidays that fall within their internship period.
  • Benefits for seasonal employee positions: Grant Thornton seasonal employees are eligible to participate in the firm's medical, dental and vision insurance programs and the firm's employee assistance program. Seasonal employees may also be eligible to participate in the firm's 401(k) savings plan and employee retirement plan in accordance with applicable plan terms and eligibility requirements. Seasonal employees receive a minimum of 72 hours of paid sick leave.


Grant Thornton employees may be eligible for a discretionary, annual bonus based on individual and firm performance, subject to the terms, conditions and eligibility criteria of the applicable bonus plan or program. Interns and seasonal employees are not eligible for bonus compensation.

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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