Workday Principal Consultant

RPI Consultants

$125K — $150K *
Business Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of ERP consulting experience with strong Workday focus
  • Deep expertise in either Financial Management or Supply Chain Management
  • Proven ability in leading assessments and optimization projects
  • Technical understanding of business process configuration and integrations
  • Experience in project scoping and estimation with presales teams
  • Demonstrated executive presence and successful client outcomes in regulated industries
  • Willingness to travel as needed

Responsibilities

  • Lead complex Workday consulting efforts for financial and supply chain improvements
  • Monitor project performance including scope, budget, and client satisfaction
  • Provide strategic recommendations for finance and procurement practices
  • Identify interdependencies in business processes and technical configurations
  • Contribute to presales efforts by defining delivery approaches and project scopes

Benefits

  • Direct access to company leaders in a flat organizational structure
  • Opportunity to shape Workday services while engaging in client delivery
  • Support from experienced teams in sales, operations, and delivery
  • Work with a well-established ERP consulting firm with nearly 30 years of experience
Full Job Description
Job Description

Workday Principal Consultant -Senior Delivery Leader, Financial Management & Supply Chain

At a glace:

A senior, client-facing consulting role focused on helping organizations improve Workday Financial Management and Supply Chain Management after go-live.

Position Summary

RPI Consultants' Workday Principal Consultant is a senior consulting and delivery leader responsible for successful client outcomes across complex Workday engagements. The role is a trusted advisor to client leaders and a senior functional resource for multidisciplinary delivery teams.

The role focuses on Workday Financial Management and Supply Chain Management for organizations already live on Workday. The Principal Consultant works directly with clients to understand business processes, assess how Workday is being used, recommend practical improvements, and guide assessments, optimization efforts, advisory engagements, and targeted projects.

What You'll Own
  • Lead Workday consulting work: Serve as the senior functional lead on assessments, optimization efforts, advisory engagements, and targeted post-production projects, staying close to the analysis, recommendations, and solution decisions
  • Support engagement performance: Work with project and engagement leaders to monitor scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, and client satisfaction, identifying Workday-specific issues early and help the team resolve them
  • Advise client leaders: Translate finance, procurement, and supply chain priorities into practical Workday recommendations, explaining options and tradeoffs clearly to business and technology stakeholders
  • Connect functional and technical requirements: Identify implications across business process configuration, integrations, data, reporting, security, and platform capabilities
  • Support presales scoping: Work with RPI's presales team to define the delivery approach, scoping details, assumptions, dependencies, and work effort estimate


Qualifications
  • 10+ years of enterprise application or ERP consulting experience, including substantial Workday consulting responsibility and a record of success in senior client-facing roles
  • Strong Workday application and business-process knowledge across Financial Management and Supply Chain Management, with deep expertise in at least one area and the ability to turn business needs into practical recommendations
  • Hands-on experience leading Workday assessments, optimization efforts, post-production support, targeted projects, or comparable engagements
  • Technical breadth to recognize dependencies involving business process configuration, integrations, data, reporting, security, and platform capabilities. Hands-on integration development is not required
  • Experience defining project approaches, scoping details, assumptions, risks, dependencies, and work effort estimates in collaboration with presales and delivery teams
  • Executive presence, sound judgment, and referenceable Workday client outcomes, preferably in healthcare or another regulated industry
  • Ability to travel as client needs require


Additional Information

Why Join RPI

RPI combines the resources of an established ERP consulting firm with a flat organization and direct access to company leaders. This role offers meaningful influence over our Workday services while remaining focused on senior client work. This is an opportunity to join the ground floor of an emerging Workday practice with a firm that has nearly 30 years of expertise in ERP implementation.

We Offer,
  • Established support: Work with experienced sales, operations, and delivery teams backed by a 25-year ERP consulting business
  • Influence without leaving delivery: Help shape Workday services and quality standards while continuing to lead challenging client work

RPI Consultants is headquartered in Baltimore since 1999.

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