Workday Adaptive Planning consultant

• Role: Workday Adaptive planning Consultant
• Exp: 4 to 10 years
• Locations: Bang/Hyd/Chennai/Pune/Gurugram
• Mode of work: Hybrid
• Certifications: Workday Certified (Mandatory)

Responsibilities:

• Proficient in overseeing a support ticketing queue with multiple open items, demonstrating strong written and oral communication skills;
• Capable of leading client status meetings and extracting relevant metrics;
• Handles client relationships, confirming effective communication;
• Offers functional and/or technical subject matter expertise;
• Directs process redesign efforts;
• Leads technical and test teams for the implementation of functionality;
• Provides recommendations to change activities to confirm business adoption and provides effective user training;
• Manages the complete project lifecycle to confirm timely project delivery;
• Meets with stakeholders throughout the organization to confirm a comprehensive set of requirements, aligned to business objectives, gaining a complete understanding of current and future state business processes;
• Provides in-depth knowledge of the Workday application and evaluates the customers processes against the standard Workday functionality;
• Demonstrates experience in use of Workday in a support/AMS environment;
• Documents the business requirements which express what actions a solution should take and what outcome is expected;
• Is responsible for fixes and enhancements to the application to achieve the customer’s business requirements;
• Has industry experience and understands challenges and risks when providing professional services and supporting vertical applications and localizations;
• Demonstrated ability to:
• Analyze and understand business problems;
• Model data and processes;
• Conduct workshops and training sessions;
• Plan and carry out system and user acceptance testing
• Familiar with and experienced in:
• Core application functionality;
• Implementation Methodology;
• Application technology stack;
• ITIL process knowledge/understanding is highly preferred;
• Active Workday Adaptive Planning/Adaptive Insights certification;
• 2+ years of experience and working knowledge with Planning Budgeting Forecasting and Management Reporting in functional roles;
• Experience in multiple full lifecycle EPM projects with deep understanding and expertise in designing and implementing complex models like:
• Financial Planning, e.g., Revenue Planning, Expense Planning, Projects Planning, Capital Planning, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Planning;
• Workforce Planning, e.g., Headcount/FTE and Compensation Planning, Resource Supply and Demand Planning;
• Operational Planning, e.g., Sales Planning;
• Ability to work on multiple projects;
• Subject Matter Expertise on Budgeting Planning and Forecasting while identifying opportunities for automation and process improvements;
• Ability to work with the client and drive design sessions and help customers resolve issues requiring in depth expertise;
• Ability to help customers resolve functional issues requiring in depth expertise in the Adaptive solution;
• Experience in creating reports utilizing advanced Excel skills and dashboards;
• Analyze Workday release updates to understand impacts of feature changes, in relation to clients existing configuration;
• Good to have Workday Finance/HCM/Integration certification; and;,
• Functional experience and knowledge of Workday Finance/Accounting, reporting/consolidation is an advantage.