AES-Workday Senior Associate (Sr. Analyst) - Finance Pod Lead - Needs to be experienced leading teams - Consult

Line of Service

Advisory

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

Workday

Management Level

Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary

At PwC, our people in business application consulting specialise in consulting services for a variety of business applications, helping clients optimise operational efficiency. These individuals analyse client needs, implement software solutions, and provide training and support for seamless integration and utilisation of business applications, enabling clients to achieve their strategic objectives.

In Workday finance at PwC, you will focus on providing consulting services for Workday finance applications. You will analyse client requirements, implement software solutions, and offer training and support for seamless integration and utilisation of Workday finance applications. Working in this area, you will enable clients to optimise financial processes, improve financial reporting, and achieve their strategic objectives.

Focused on relationships, you are building meaningful client connections, and learning how to manage and inspire others. Navigating increasingly complex situations, you are growing your personal brand, deepening technical expertise and awareness of your strengths. You are expected to anticipate the needs of your teams and clients, and to deliver quality. Embracing increased ambiguity, you are comfortable when the path forward isn’t clear, you ask questions, and you use these moments as opportunities to grow.

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Respond effectively to the diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
• Use a broad range of tools, methodologies and techniques to generate new ideas and solve problems.
• Use critical thinking to break down complex concepts.
• Understand the broader objectives of your project or role and how your work fits into the overall strategy.
• Develop a deeper understanding of the business context and how it is changing.
• Use reflection to develop self awareness, enhance strengths and address development areas.
• Interpret data to inform insights and recommendations.
• Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.

Position Requirements

Required Skills:

Active Workday Financials Record to Report/Contracts to Cash certification.

At least 3 year or full implementation of Financial Accounting, Common Financial Management, Banking and Settlement and/or Customer Accounts.

At least 3 years of relevant Workday experience and ability to work on multiple projects. Subject Matter Expertise on Financial Processes and reports while identifying opportunities for automation and process improvements. Functional experience in several Workday Finance modules like Financial Accounting, Common Financial Management, Customers, Customer Accounts, Banking and Settlement, Business Assets, Projects. Ability to work with the client and drive design sessions for various Finance modules and hands on experience configuring FDM structure and business process configuration and building validation/condition rules. Hands-on experience creating and troubleshooting EIBs (Enterprise Interface Builder). Ability to help customers resolve functional issues requiring in depth expertise in the Workday solutions. In-depth knowledge of Workday security framework, calculated fields, custom reports like Advanced/Matrix/Composite and setting up notifications. In-depth knowledge of various data sources available and how to use them. Analyze Workday release updates to understand impacts of feature changes, in relation to clients existing configuration.

Preferred Skills:

Good to have Reporting, FDM and other certifications related to Record to Report OR Order to Cash functional areas. Knowledge on using Customer Central for configuration and migration.

Managed Services - Application Evolution Services

At PwC we relentlessly focus on working with our clients to bring the power of technology and humans together and create simple, yet powerful solutions. We imagine a day when our clients can simply focus on their business knowing that they have a trusted partner for their IT needs. Everyday we are motivated and passionate about making our clients’ better.

Within our Managed Services platform, PwC delivers integrated services and solutions that are grounded in deep industry experience and powered by the talent that you would expect from the PwC brand. The PwC Managed Services platform delivers scalable solutions that add greater value to our client’s enterprise through technology and human-enabled experiences.  Our team of highly-skilled and trained global professionals, combined with the use of the latest advancements in technology and process, allows us to provide effective and efficient outcomes.  With PwC’s Managed Services our client’s are able to focus on accelerating their priorities, including optimizing operations and accelerating outcomes.  PwC brings a consultative first approach to operations, leveraging our deep industry insights combined with world class talent and assets to enable transformational journeys that drive sustained client outcomes. Our clients need flexible access to world class business and technology capabilities that keep pace with today’s dynamic business environment. 

Within our global, Managed Services platform, we provide Application Evolution Services (formerly Application Managed Services), where we focus more so on the evolution of our clients’ applications and cloud portfolio. Our focus is to empower our client’s to navigate and capture the value of their application portfolio while cost-effectively operating and protecting their solutions. We do this so that our clients can focus on what matters most to your business: accelerating growth that is dynamic, efficient and cost-effective. 

As a member of our Application Evolution Services (AES) team, we are looking for candidates who thrive working in a high-paced work environment capable of working on a mix of critical Application Evolution Service offerings and engagement including help desk support, enhancement and optimization work, as well as strategic roadmap and advisory level work.  It will also be key to lend experience and effort in helping win and support customer engagements from not only a technical perspective, but also a relationship perspective.  

Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)

Degrees/Field of Study required:

Degrees/Field of Study preferred:

Certifications (if blank, certifications not specified)

Required Skills

Optional Skills

Accepting Feedback, Accepting Feedback, Accounting and Financial Reporting Standards, Accounting Consulting, Active Listening, Analytical Thinking, Budgetary Management, Business Process Improvement, Communication, Creativity, Embracing Change, Emotional Regulation, Empathy, Finance Transformation, Financial Accounting, Financial Advising, Financial Budgeting, Financial Economics, Financial Forecasting, Financial Management, Financial Management Software, Financial Market, Financial Modeling, Financial Planning, Financial Regulation {+ 20 more}

Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)

Travel Requirements

Not Specified

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Government Clearance Required?

No

Job Posting End Date