With the release of Workday Student, Higher Education is quickly becoming the hottest market in the Workday ecosystem. Alchemy is the only Workday partner that is 100% focused on Higher Education projects and holds the largest number of successful Workday deployments in the space. We are highly regarded as Workday’s Premier Higher Education Partner, and we proudly celebrate this achievement.

At Alchemy, we believe that success begins with people, and we’ve made it our mission to hire individuals with great potential and to provide them with the tools and resources needed to build rewarding Workday consulting careers.

Read more about Alchemy’s values here: https://alchemy.us/about/.

Your Role

As a Workday Financials Principal Consultant, you will leverage your deep expertise across the Workday Financials workstreams to lead Workday Financials deployments, support current and prospective customers in the sales process, contribute to the evolution of Alchemy's deployment methodology, and mentor junior colleagues.

Your Responsibilities

• Lead the Record to Report Workday Financials pillar and associated specialties: Financial Accounting, FDM, and Budgets
• On deployments: gather customer business requirements, design and configure the Workday solution, demonstrate configurations through the development of prototype systems, assist in testing the Workday solution, and complete knowledge transfer to customers
• Develop compelling tenant solutions that demonstrate the value of Workday's Financials product suite with the ability to speak cross-functionally to Workday HCM and Workday Payroll
• Provide end-to-end solution and design details during the sales process
• Support the proposal process, which may include providing quality assurance for respective service areas through delivery of the project
• Accurately estimate effort and resources required to complete projects
• Promote best practice knowledge sharing across practices
• Stay up to date with current and projected industry trends
• Mentor and guide junior colleagues
• Maintain Workday certifications and qualifications

About You (Required Skills)

• Workday Financials subject matter expert in Record to Report: Financial Accounting, FDM, and/or Budgets
• Significant end-to-end Workday Financials implementation experience, and the ability to recognize and problem-solve for downstream impacts within Workday HCM and Workday Payroll
• Strong preference for active Workday Financials partner certifications. Will consider recertifying an individual that meets most other qualifications
• Ability to juggle multiple projects and initiatives simultaneously
• Ability to identify and analyze areas of risk and develop plans to minimize
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with strong storytelling capabilities
• Bachelor’s degree or relevant work experience
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 25%

Bonus if you have...

• Higher Ed (college/university) experience
• Presales, sales, or orals experience
• Cross-functional experience or certifications in Workday HCM and/or Workday Payroll

Candidates/Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.