Workday Finance Planning Consultant

Job description

Introduction
In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.
You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.
Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your Role and Responsibilities
As a Consultant you will serve as a client-facing practitioner who sells, leads and implements expert services utilizing the breadth of IBM's offerings and technologies. A successful Consultant is regarded by clients as a trusted business advisor who collaborates to provide innovative solutions used to solve the most challenging business problems.
You will work developing solutions that excel at user experience, style, performance, reliability, and scalability to reduce costs and improve profit and shareholder value.

Your primary responsibilities include:
·  Identify Business Requirements for Workday Adaptive Planning implementation and align them with the client's financial planning processes, driving decisions and recommending best practices throughout the project lifecycle.
·  Utilize consulting skills, business knowledge, and expertise in Workday Adaptive Planning to effectively implement the functionality into the client's business environment, ensuring the achievement of client-expected financial planning results.
·  Conduct collaborative working sessions with clients to gather, comprehend, analyze, and translate business requirements into the Workday Adaptive Planning system.
·  Assist clients in seamlessly integrating the Workday Adaptive Planning system into their existing financial planning and analysis processes.
·  Provide expert guidance to clients on industry standards for financial planning and analysis, offering suggestions, driving decisions, and recommending best practices throughout all phases of the project.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

·  Workday Adaptive Planning Core certification / Workday Adaptive Planning Applied certification/ Workday Adaptive Planning Integration certification is mandate.
·  Competence and relevant experience in leading workshops for Workday Adaptive Planning modules in at least 2 projects.
·  Minimum of 2 years of experience in end-to-end implementation of Workday Adaptive Planning for businesses in American, European, and/or APAC regions.
·  Collaborate with the client and data migration team to facilitate the conversion of legacy financial planning data into Workday Adaptive Planning.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

·  Experience in supporting customers in their annual financial planning and analysis processes and workforce planning, as well as advanced reporting in Workday Adaptive Planning.
·  Strong analytical skills to interpret and translate business requirements into effective system design.
·  Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to manage customer expectations effectively.