Overview
Job Locations:
United States – Remote
Remote – Ontario
Remote – British Columbia
Remote – Alberta
The Workday Financials Senior Principal Consultant – Global Application Managed Services (AMS) is a well experienced post-production professional who is dynamic, fast-paced, and familiar with the managed services construct. As a Workday Financials AMS Senior Principal Consultant, you will bring your functional skills, ability to keep the business context in sight, and roll-up-your-sleeves work ethic to a team with a positive, can-do attitude, a collaborative culture, and a passion for helping our clients to be successful.
Key Responsibilities:
- Onshore functional lead who leads Financial workstream for the assigned set of accounts pertaining to Record to Report (Workday Certification is mandatory).
- Apply and execute various AMS & Implementation methodologiesactivities in these Workday FINS engagements.
- Should collaboratively work with the GDC team on day -day activities, incidents, root cause analysis and other work requests.
- Provides on-call support and holiday coverage as required.
- Deep knowledge in SLA constructs and adherence
- Coordinate with external and internal stakeholders to create high business impact.
- Contribute to the operational efficiency of the Workday practice.
- Proactively identify and develop reporting dashboards to improve Workday utilization, creating solutions that support metrics for FINS and the business at large.
- Work with clients to identify/resolve all issues that could impact project scope and/or timeframe.
- Maintain the Workday platform with a focus on reporting (including scheduled reports), business process maintenance, security administration, data loads and data audits.
- Ensures system design fits the needs of the user.Â
- Comfortable with leading multiple tasks and projects simultaneously, prioritize tasks effectively, and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.Â
- Ability to ensure team delivers the project deliverables on time and do consistent timely reminders with vendors and project team.
- Drive continual business processes improvements throughout the organization.
- Lead a team of Workday consultants across multiple engagements.
Skills & Requirements:
- A Bachelor’s degree (preferably in Computer Science or Engineering) or equivalent experience
- Minimum of 5-7 years of Corporate Applications portfolio experience and at least 3-5 years’ experience in client facing roles handling managed services in a global delivery model
- Should have an expert level understanding of Workday Financials domain.
- Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in Workday Integrations
- Workday certification is mandatory.
- Able to multitask and perform a variety of duties.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Willingness to go the extra mile to solve customer problems.
- Good Analytical skills with ability to solve complex incidents, provide suggestionsbest practices.
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Why choose Cognizant:
- Entrepreneurial environment that welcomes your ideas
- Opportunity to do great work
- Outreach programs that support communities and tap into your volunteer spirit
- Learning opportunities to help current needs and advancement
- Global operations, with opportunities in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific
- An abundance of Affinity groups to meet your needs
Cognizant Core Values:
- Start with a point of view: I apply my expertise to gain trust and to lead our clients forward.
- Seek data, build knowledge: I use facts to guide my actions and decisions.
- Always strive, never settle: I act with agility and creativity, determined to stay one step ahead.
- Work as one: I deliver solutions that draw upon the full power and scale of Cognizant.
- Create conditions for everyone to thrive: I include, enable, and invest in everyone around me.
- Do the right thing, the right way: I always make the ethical choice.