Senior Consultant – Finance Transformation, Workday Financials

February 10, 2021 Finance

Job Overview

Job title: Senior Consultant – Finance Transformation, Workday Financials

Company: KPMG

Job description: Overview

You’ve got big plans. We have opportunities to match, and we’re committed to empowering you to become a better you, no matter what you do.

When you join KPMG you’ll be one of over 219,000 professionals providing audit, tax, advisory and business enablement services across 147 countries.

With the support to do things differently, grow personally and professionally and bring your whole self to work, there’s no limit to the impact you can make. Let’s do this.

The opportunity:

KPMG’s Finance Transformation Advisory Practice helps organizations maximize efficiencies and drive business value across the organization. We do this by working with CFOs and other finance leaders to help them transform their finance function using the core drivers of change: process optimization, target operating model development, and system implementation.

We empower finance functions to become more insightful and true business partners. We are trusted advisors in budgeting and forecasting, close and consolidation, reporting and analytics, and all other areas of finance.

KPMG is currently seeking a Senior Consultant for our Finance Transformation Consulting practice.

What you will do

As a Senior Consultant – Finance Transformation, Workday Financials, you will learn from some of the most eminent professionals in the sector and develop your personal skills by assuming the following responsibilities:

Participate in Finance Transformation projects and Workday Financials projects involving strategy, implementation support, and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) optimization and lead some functional streams
Review, map and improve Finance business processes (Source to Pay, Order to Cash, Payroll, Acquire to Retire, Project Accounting, Record to Report and Plan to Perform)
Execute the day-to-day activities of advisory engagements for a variety of clients including finance function diagnostic, process redesign, system implementation…
Identify and communicate findings to senior management and client personnel
Support business development activities such as identification, proposal development, and other pursuit activities; work with the appropriate KPMG resources from other service lines/industries.

At times, business needs arise, and employees are required and agree to work beyond their normal work day or work week to fulfill the accountabilities required for their job. Likewise, we understand that people need time to devote to personal matters, and our approach to flexibility provides for this.

What you bring to the role

You are passionate about Workday and have at least 3 years of experience with Workday Financials.
Bachelor’s degree in accounting or related field.
An accounting designation (CPA) is preferred.
Completion of one full implementation with Workday Financials and Workday certification in Financials (Please note that any candidate hired by KPMG into this position that doesn’t currently hold the aforementioned certification will be required to secure one within six months from the commencement of employment)
Experience working in a client interface role in a variety of industries and businesses.
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to communicate with client stakeholders, work closely together as part of a team and lead teams and project deliverables, in both English and French.
Excellent analytical and problem solving skills with the ability to clearly identify and define problems and develop creative solutions to meet client needs.
Travel may be up to 50%.

Keys to your success:

Strong communication skills, both written and oral
Highly driven, autonomous, resilient and team player with a strong work ethic
Being proactive in determining priorities and managing multiple deadlines

Learn more about where a career at KPMG can take you.
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You are passionate about Workday and have at least 3 years of experience with Workday Financials.
Bachelor’s degree in accounting or related field.
An accounting designation (CPA) is preferred.
Completion of one full implementation with Workday Financials and Workday certification in Financials (Please note that any candidate hired by KPMG into this position that doesn’t currently hold the aforementioned certification will be required to secure one within six months from the commencement of employment)
Experience working in a client interface role in a variety of industries and businesses.
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to communicate with client stakeholders, work closely together as part of a team and lead teams and project deliverables, in both English and French.
Excellent analytical and problem solving skills with the ability to clearly identify and define problems and develop creative solutions to meet client needs.
Travel may be up to 50%.

Keys to your success:

Strong communication skills, both written and oral
Highly driven, autonomous, resilient and team player with a strong work ethic
Being proactive in determining priorities and managing multiple deadlines

Learn more about where a career at KPMG can take you.

Participate in Finance Transformation projects and Workday Financials projects involving strategy, implementation support, and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) optimization and lead some functional streams
Review, map and improve Finance business processes (Source to Pay, Order to Cash, Payroll, Acquire to Retire, Project Accounting, Record to Report and Plan to Perform)
Execute the day-to-day activities of advisory engagements for a variety of clients including finance function diagnostic, process redesign, system implementation…
Identify and communicate findings to senior management and client personnel
Support business development activities such as identification, proposal development, and other pursuit activities; work with the appropriate KPMG resources from other service lines/industries.