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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 738,000 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 with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Accenture Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients succeed 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.
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Are you interested in helping clients navigate their digital transformation from where they are now, to where they want to be? Can you uncover their strategic intent that will help shape the use of new technologies to drive new innovative ways of working?
Using Workday Adaptive Planning, we help clients unlock trapped value across their organisation and drive transformation in service design and planning operations.
As a member of one of the world's largest Workday-certified teams, you'll be part of a team of professionals who deliver more than just technology. You'll deliver financial planning and analysis solutions that help organisations realise the Adaptive Planning 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 DayNine Workday team, where you'll:
- Assess, strategize and manage Adaptive Planning deployments for organisations across the globe. Accenture has worked with more than 600 clients to deliver Workday deployments to unlock the potential of their organisations.
- Design and deliver future-ready Adaptive Planning solutions to help organisations optimise their planning, budgeting and forecasting functions and enhance their employees' experiences.
- Join more than 2,500 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.
Key Responsibilities
As a Workday Adaptive Planning Consultant, you should expect to have the following responsibilities:
- Work with clients to understand their current planning process and take a consultative approach to designing planning models in Adaptive Planning.
- 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 configuration decisions based on best practices and an understanding of the customer's unique business requirements at all stages of the project.
- Configure and demonstrate planning prototypes.
- Regularly engage and support the client through all phases of the project, ensuring a smooth transfer from legacy systems to Adaptive Planning.
- Perform multiple tasks under limited direction, while regularly keeping the client, your project team and your Project Manager abreast of changes or progress related to the project.
- Act as a mentor to fellow consultants and analysts, including providing support for shadow assignments.
- Assist with sales activities, acting as a Workday Planning subject matter expert.
- Work with Solutions Architects to review Statements of Work (SOWs) to ensure proper scoping, timelines, and resource allocations.
- Actively participate in update training and internal opportunities to share one's skills and learnings with others within the organization.
- Maintain cutting-edge knowledge of product functionality with each new Workday release.
- Demonstrate strong client and stakeholder management to achieve project objectives
- Support innovation through the creation of new industry leading methods and assets
Your skills and Qualifications:
- Existing and current Adaptive Planning Certification
- 3 years + experience implementing Adaptive Planning with a certified Workday implementer or other FP&A solution (Oracle Planning Cloud, Hyperion, Anaplan etc)
- Ability and willingness to travel
- Experience with pre-sales and sales activities are beneficial
- Bachelors degree in Finance or Accounting, or experience in FP&A role a plus.
- Ability to speak to both the financial and technical aspects of EPM. Experience managing technical upgrades and ETL/data movement is a plus
- Ability to create and sustain a relationship with clients, inspiring confidence in themselves and the delivery team while driving to reference-ability
- Thrive in a diverse, fast paced environment
- Think analytically and can effectively apply logic to solve problems
- Ability to handle multiple tasks concurrently and meet deadlines, despite conflicting demands
- Effective interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate and team with others
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, and can clearly articulate complex messages and requirements
- Strong desire to work with clients and provide exceptional client experiences
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Progressive Employee Benefits - Australia
This is an exceptional opportunity for an exceptional individual.
All our consulting professionals receive comprehensive training covering business acumen, technical and professional skills development. You'll also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization. We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with teammates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.
Applicants for employment in Australia must have current work authorisation as we are unable to support Visa sponsorship for this role. Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.
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