Workday Finance consultant - Belgium

Job Description

Introduction
As a Package Consultant at IBM, get ready to tackle numerous mission-critical company directives. Our team takes on the challenge of designing, developing and re-engineering highly complex application components and integrating software packages using various tools. You will use a mix of consultative skills, business knowledge, and technical expertise to effectively integrate packaged technology into our clients' business environment and achieve business results.
Your Role and Responsibilities
As a Workday Financials Lead, you will demonstrate experience in the following areas:
1. Project / Delivery Lead duties:

• Lead one more concurrent projects.
• Help the Project Manager with planning tasks across all stages.
• Lead workshops and design sessions, translating client requirements into deliverable functional solutions adhering to best practices Use your consultative experience to develop non-standard solutions to plug any functional gaps
• Provide clear instructions & guidance to clients for populating workbooks
• Plan and lead colleagues building all prototype tenants and Migration to Production including smoke testing activities.
• Deliver customer confirmation sessions demonstrating configuration in the prototype tenant builds, and ensure colleagues and client team is prepared for testing.
• Lead testing support activities to ensure defects are resolved in satisfactory SLA’s
• Ensure all Delivery Assurance (DA) Checkpoints are in compliance and completed on time
• Lead and/or assist with Data Conversion & Reporting activities as needed
• Assist integrations teams with functional guidance
• Provide regular project status & budget updates to the Project Manager, highlighting and mitigating Risks and Issues early
• Provide clear guidance to the client team and your consulting colleagues throughout all project stages

2. Go To Market / Pre-Sales / Solutioning duties:

• Work closely with sectors/partners & Workday to local develop pipeline and marketing initiatives.
• Lead and/or assist with all local pre-sales activities providing input into bids / proposals / SOW’s as needed.
• Accurately estimate scope, effort and resources required to complete projects.
• Develop and maintain all local Go To Market sales templates (e.g. Discovery Questionnaires, Scoping Documents / SOW’s etc).

3. Local Financials Domain Lead duties:

• Develop and maintain detailed methodology and best practices for this area, ensuring consistency across all Financials areas, as well as aligning with HCM / Global teams
• Help build and manage a team local of consultants. Guide and develop consultants that are new to Workday, with detailed development plan incorporating both on projects and through internal training.
• Collaborate and share knowledge on product, methodology & best practices with the local team.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Workday Finance certified
• Workday implementation experience at global customer
• Fluent in English, French and Dutch

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
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About Business Unit
IBM Services is a team of business, strategy and technology consultants that design, build, and run foundational systems and services that is the backbone of the world's economy. IBM Services partners with the world's leading companies in over 170 countries to build smarter businesses by reimagining and reinventing through technology, with its outcome-focused methodologies, industry-leading portfolio and world class research and operations expertise leading to results-driven innovation and enduring excellence.
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