Workday Data Conversion Lead

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As a member of one of the world’s largest Workday-certified teams, you’ll be part of a team of advisory professionals who deliver more than just technology. You’ll deliver HR and financial management solutions that help organizations realize the Workday promise of integrated, cloud-based capabilities that put them on the fast track to a better way to work.

Grow your career with leading-edge technologies, continuous learning opportunities and a global community with deep industry expertise that help to solve clients’ biggest challenges.

Now is the perfect time for you to join the Accenture Workday team, where you’ll:

• Assess, strategize and manage Workday deployments for organizations across the globe. Accenture has worked with more than 600 clients to deliver Workday deployments to unlock the potential of their organizations.
• Design and deliver future-ready Workday solutions to help organizations optimize their HR and Finance functions and enhance their employees’ experiences.
• Join more than 3,000+ professionals certified in Workday, collaborating to drive enterprise-wide transformational projects on a global scale.
• Expand your Workday skills and advance your career with unparalleled training and professional development opportunities.

As a Workday Data Conversion Lead, you should expect to lead a large, complex Workday Data Conversion effort and have the following responsibilities:

• Lead a team of one to four+ Data Conversion consultants on one or more project teams
• Work with clients to understand their data requirements across HCM, Finance, Planning and other operational and analytics domains.
• Leverage your expertise to recommend the best solution based on the client’s requirements, budget, and timeframe; with the flexibility to adapt the scope as additional needs are identified.
• Guide the client through facilitated design sessions and data configuration decisions based on best practices and an understanding of the customer’s unique business requirements at all stages of the project.
• Regularly engage and support the client through all phases of the project, ensuring a smooth transfer from legacy systems to Workday.
• Support end to end data solutions from acquisition, cleansing, transformation, load and certainly not least reconciliation.
• Actively engage with key Accenture and client stakeholders
• Manage onshore and offshore data teams.
• Mentor other consultants and analysts, including providing support for shadow assignments.
• Actively participate in update training and internal opportunities to share skills and learnings with others within the organization.
• Maintain up to date knowledge of Workday and Accenture tools and accelerators.
• Demonstrate strong client and stakeholder management to achieve project objectives
• Support and drive innovation through the creation of new industry leading methods and assets
• Be the driving force behind business and technology transformation projects
• Define requirements and create functional and/or technical specifications
• Support proof of concepts, estimates, and conceptual designs

Basic Qualifications:

• 2+ years’ Workday experience
• 5+ years’ previous consulting experience or congruent professional experience, ideally in data analytics or data conversion in an enterprise platform context (SAP, Oracle, Salesforce) including 1 or more of the following:
• Database schemas
• Data architecture principles
• Data taxonomies
• Advanced proficiency in Data management and Integration
• Advanced proficiency in Workday Data Mapping & Conversions
• Data cleansing
• Existing and current Workday Data related certification
• Experience in HRIS or Finance fields with Workday related experience in data migration from SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, or similar applications
• Deep Experience with XML, XSD, XSLT or XPath and ETL tools (e.g. Clover, Informatica)
• People Management experience
• Ability and willingness to travel

Preferred Skills:

• Keen understanding and demonstration of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• Demonstrated experience in Reporting/Analytics
• Consulting-based leadership experience on specialized projects with deep, overall knowledge of information systems
• Ability to lead teams of consultants and clients to reach the goals around data conversion
• Self-starter with proven ability to work within a team-oriented environment
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and to adapt to frequent change
• Demonstrated ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
• Demonstrated experience with Excel, Visio, MS Project (or equivalent) and PowerPoint
• Superior communication (both written and oral) effectiveness with project leadership

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