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About the Role

As a Workday Financials professional, you will lead clients through complex digital transformations, translating strategic intent into practical, future-ready solutions and guiding teams to deliver measurable business outcomes. Using Workday, we help clients unlock trapped value across their organization and drive transformation in service design and workforce experiences. Grow your career with leading-edge technologies, continuous learning opportunities, and a global community with deep industry expertise.

Responsibilities

Lead functional and commercial workstreams across Workday Financials engagements.
Be accountable for strong client relationships, sound team decisions, effective risk and investment management, and high-quality financial, business, and stakeholder outcomes.
Lead client workshops to gather requirements, advise on best practices, and support key business process decisions.
Own Workday Financials functional design, configuration, prototyping, and solution validation.
Manage workstream delivery, including plans, risks, issues, dependencies, governance reporting, and deployment.
Build trusted client and internal stakeholder relationships and communicate clear recommendations.
Guide, coach, and coordinate functional consultants and module leads to deliver quality outcomes.
Apply Workday Implementation Methodology and maintain relevant Workday certifications and product knowledge.
Support testing, data, integrations, change and deployment activities, as well as proposals, demonstrations, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Requirements

Hands-on Workday Financials or comparable cloud ERP implementation experience, including solution design and configuration.
Workday Financials Management – Account and Assets capabilities.
Advanced proficiency in financial accounting, including a strong understanding of end-to-end financial processes, controls, reporting, and performance management.
Demonstrated experience in commercial finance, financial strategy, investment management, risk mitigation, and delivering measurable business value.
Experience leading a functional or commercial workstream through design, build, testing, and deployment.
Strong analytical capability to interpret complex financial data, identify trends and opportunities, and translate insights into clear recommendations.
Ability to make team-level decisions, solve complex cross-functional problems, manage competing priorities, and drive outcomes through collaboration.
Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, workshop leadership, and written and verbal communication skills, with confidence engaging senior client stakeholders.
Current Workday Financials certification(s).
Typically, 4+ years of relevant Workday Financials, commercial finance, or enterprise finance transformation experience, including implementation delivery experience.
Experience delivering at least one end-to-end Workday Financials implementation, preferably in a consulting environment.
Advanced proficiency in commercial management, contract management, cost accounting, finance strategy, and sales pursuit management.
CA, CPA, or equivalent finance qualification.
Experience managing client commercial relationships, investments, financial risks, contractual obligations, and accountability mechanisms.
Experience coaching team members, leading financial management training, reviewing functional deliverables, and supporting project governance.
Ability and willingness to travel as required by client and project needs.
Candidate must be an Australian Citizen with current or ability to gain Baseline Security Clearance.

Skills

Workday Financials
Cloud ERP implementation
Solution design
Configuration
Account and Assets capabilities
Financial accounting
End-to-end financial processes
Controls
Reporting
Performance management
Commercial finance
Financial strategy
Investment management
Risk mitigation
Business value delivery
Workstream leadership
Analytical capability
Financial data interpretation
Trend identification
Opportunity identification
Team-level decision making
Cross-functional problem solving
Priority management
Collaboration
Stakeholder management
Facilitation
Workshop leadership
Written communication
Verbal communication
Commercial management
Contract management
Cost accounting
Sales pursuit management
Team coaching
Financial management training

Location

Australia

Work Type

Onsite
Travel

Experience Level

Associate Manager
4+ years of relevant Workday Financials, commercial finance or enterprise finance transformation experience
Experience delivering at least one end-to-end Workday Financials implementation

Education Level

CA, CPA or equivalent finance qualification

Benefits

Comprehensive training covering business acumen, technical and professional skills development.
Opportunities to hone functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization.
Variety of formal and informal training programs at every level.
Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with teammates.
Health
Wellbeing
Progressive Leave Options
Sustainability
Flexibility in ‘where’, ‘when’ and ‘how’ our people work.

About the Company

Accenture is a leading solutions and services company that helps the world’s leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed across the enterprise, bringing together the talent of our approximately 786,000 people, our proprietary assets and platforms, and deep ecosystem relationships.
Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and to be the most client-focused, AI-enabled, great place to work in the world.
Through our Reinvention Services we bring together our capabilities across strategy, consulting, technology, operations, Song and Industry X with our deep industry expertise to create and deliver solutions and services for our clients.
Our purpose is to deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity, and we measure our success by the 360° value we create for all our stakeholders.
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale.
We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries.
Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships.
We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability.
Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships.
We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Equal Opportunity

We encourage applications from all people, and we are committed to removing barriers to the recruitment process and employee lifecycle.
All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, religion or sexual orientation and we do not tolerate discrimination.
At Accenture, our intention is to foster a culture and a workplace in which all of our people feel a sense of belonging and are respected and empowered to do their best work.
As part of our talent strategy, we hire and develop people who have different backgrounds, different perspectives and different lived experiences.
These differences ensure that we have and attract the cognitive diversity to deliver a variety of perspectives, observations and insights which are essential to drive the innovation needed to reinvent, and we hold our leaders accountable for ensuring we have the most innovative and talented people in our industry.