- Role: Workday Adaptive planning Consultant

- Exp: 4 to 10 years

- Locations: Bang/Hyd/Chennai/Pune/Gurugram

- Mode of work: Hybrid
- Certifications: Workday Certified (Mandatory)

Responsibilities:

- Proficient in overseeing a support ticketing queue with multiple open items, demonstrating strong written and oral communication skills;

- Capable of leading client status meetings and extracting relevant metrics;

- Handles client relationships, confirming effective communication;

- Offers functional and/or technical subject matter expertise;

- Directs process redesign efforts;

- Leads technical and test teams for the implementation of functionality;

- Provides recommendations to change activities to confirm business adoption and provides effective user training;

- Manages the complete project lifecycle to confirm timely project delivery;

- Meets with stakeholders throughout the organization to confirm a comprehensive set of requirements, aligned to business objectives, gaining a complete understanding of current and future state business processes;

- Provides in-depth knowledge of the Workday application and evaluates the customers processes against the standard Workday functionality;

- Demonstrates experience in use of Workday in a support/AMS environment;

- Documents the business requirements which express what actions a solution should take and what outcome is expected;

- Is responsible for fixes and enhancements to the application to achieve the customer’s business requirements;

- Has industry experience and understands challenges and risks when providing professional services and supporting vertical applications and localizations;

- Demonstrated ability to:
- Analyze and understand business problems;

- Model data and processes;





- Conduct workshops and training sessions;

- Plan and carry out system and user acceptance testing

- Familiar with and experienced in:

- Core application functionality;

- Implementation Methodology;

- Application technology stack;

- ITIL process knowledge/understanding is highly preferred;

- Active Workday Adaptive Planning/Adaptive Insights certification;

- 2+ years of experience and working knowledge with Planning Budgeting Forecasting and Management Reporting in functional roles;

- Experience in multiple full lifecycle EPM projects with deep understanding and expertise in designing and implementing complex models like:

- Financial Planning, e.g., Revenue Planning, Expense Planning, Projects Planning, Capital Planning, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Planning;

- Workforce Planning, e.g., Headcount/FTE and Compensation Planning, Resource Supply and Demand Planning;

- Operational Planning, e.g., Sales Planning;

- Ability to work on multiple projects;

- Subject Matter Expertise on Budgeting Planning and Forecasting while identifying opportunities for automation and process improvements;

- Ability to work with the client and drive design sessions and help customers resolve issues requiring in depth expertise;

- Ability to help customers resolve functional issues requiring in depth expertise in the Adaptive solution;

- Experience in creating reports utilizing advanced Excel skills and dashboards;

- Analyze Workday release updates to understand impacts of feature changes, in relation to clients existing configuration;

- Valuable to have Workday Finance/HCM/Integration certification; and;,

- Functional experience and knowledge of Workday Finance/Accounting, reporting/consolidation is an advantage.

📌 Workday Adaptive Planning consultant (Bengaluru)
🏢 PwC
📍 Bengaluru