Business Performance Improvement - Finance Transformation (Workday Financials) Associate Director

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JOB REQUISITION Business Performance Improvement - Finance Transformation (Workday Financials) Associate Director LOCATION CINCINNATI ADDITIONAL LOCATION(S) INDIANAPOLIS JOB DESCRIPTION You Belong Here    

The Protiviti Career provides opportunity to learn, inspire, and advance within a collaborative and inclusive culture.  We hire curious individuals for whom learning is a passion. We lean into our mission: We Care. We Collaborate. We Deliver .     

At every level, we champion leaders who live our values of integrity, inclusion, innovation, and commitment to success . Imagining our work as a journey, we believe integrity guides our way, inclusion moves us forward together, innovation creates new destinations, and our commitment to success empowers us to deliver on our vision to be the most trusted global consulting firm.  

Where We Need You  

Protiviti is looking for a Technology Consulting Associate Director to join our growing Workday team.   

What You Can Expect  

As an Associate Director, you'll take a lead role in strengthening our relationships with clients and providing seamless guidance in the completion of engagements. You'll partner with our strategic clients to identify and manage risk .   You'll develop strategies to solve complex business problems using new ways of thinking, and devise solutions to support your clients' needs through analytics, automation or the latest tools and methods.   

You’ll develop new projects, help identify new business , and build lasting relationships with clients and within the community as you serve as an ambassador of Protiviti in the market. You will also be a mentor and provide growth and development to teams as you oversee the successful completion of project work plans.   

What Will Help You Be Successful  

• You enjoy Workday Finance implementations.  

• You are passionate about building trusted relationships with C-level executives and providing exceptional experiences that translate to additional project work.  

• You have an inherent interest in project management and team leadership.   

• You promote a positive team culture that fosters open communication among all engagement team members.   

• You create development opportunities for others, including participating in the creation and rollout of training, and ways for your team to improve our clients and communities.  

• You enjoy discovering prospective project work with current and potential clients through networking, knowledge-building, and client interactions.  

• You excel at identifying opportunities to integrate product solutions and resources to improve client service capabilities.  

• You view client challenges as opportunities to add value and can translate that into new project proposals and sales.   

• You are seen as a valued contributor to thought leadership and encourage knowledge-sharing and collaboration across teams.  

• You have interest in managing a diverse portfolio of clients across multiple industries.  

Do Your Talents Include the Following?  

• Demonstrated experience with:  

• Leading / managing future state design and process improvement projects focused on Record to Report (R2R) and/or Order to Cash (O2C) business functions.   

• Providing business integrator support for large-scale Workday Financials implementations, coordinating across client teams, system integrators, and third-party vendors to drive process alignment, organizational readiness, issue resolution, testing, training, and successful deployment outcomes.    

• Serving as a solution architect, project manager and/or workstream lead for R2R and/or O2C during the design and implementation of Workday.     

• Serving as a project manager over large, complex Workday Financials implementations   

• Developing Workday Financials and Account ing Center implementation plans, including estimating the level of effort, timing and costs  

• Designing and implementing Workday.  Key responsibilities as part of these initiatives include leading and performing:   requirements definition, facilitating design workshops, testing, data conversion, training, cutover, and post go -live support.   

• Establishing and cultivating business relationships and a professional network, including with senior executives.   

• Successfully pursuing business development opportunities and identifying and implementing strategies to obtain new work or clientele.   

• Ability to translate and communicate issues, risks or challenges to client personnel, including executives.   

• Leadership and direct supervisory experience of teams including conducting performance appraisals, mentoring and coaching, oversight and review of work, coordination across teams, and understanding how to motivate.    

Your Educational and Professional Qualifications  

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline (e.g., MIS, Finance/Accounting, Engineering)  

• 9+ years working in professional services or industry.  

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite applications with specific emphasis on Word, Excel and PowerPoint.   

• Workday certified in Workday Record to Report and / or Contracts to Cash is strongly preferred, with certifications in Accounting Center, and/or Prism as a plus.    

• Experience with Microsoft Fabric, Python, and Power BI is considered a strong asset, particularly for data conversion, validation, reconciliation, and reporting activities.  

• Strong understanding of accounting principles and financial reporting practices.   

Our Hybrid Workplace  

Protiviti practices a hybrid model, which is a combination of working in person with a purpose and working remotely. This model creates meaningful experiences for our people and our clients while offering a flexible environment. The ratio of remote to in-person requirements vary by client, project, team, and other business factors. Our people work both in-person in local Protiviti offices and on client sites, which can include

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