Workday Certified Student Project Manager - Higher Education

Charlotte, NC, United States

Who We Are

We are Accenture, a global professional services company, searching for a Workday Student Project Manager. This individual will be part of a team of advisory professionals focused on cloud-based data-reporting operations that integrate and optimize the essential corporate functions of finance, analytics, planning and HR.

For many of our clients, successfully getting their data operations into cloud environments is a major focus. The enterprise data-reporting software of Workday is a critical component of many of the cloud solutions we design, which is why Accenture has assembled a team of more than 2,000 Workday-certified professionals.

What’s in it for YouHelp HR and Finance leaders define and execute their strategy and give them the adaptability they need in a fast-changing world.

To help you take your skillset beyond Workday technology, our Transformation Powered by Workday Training will help you take your consulting to a whole new level.

Take your Workday skills and career to the next level, mastering complex projects while expanding your leadership and advisory skills with a market-leading team.

As a Workday Student Project Manager, your primary responsibilities may include:

Lead or support the Student Project Management workstream on a Workday implementation project.

Support the creation of workplans for large complex global engagements, owning risk, budget, resources, client relationship, etc.

Researching and resolving day to day Workday Student Project Management issues

Work with client to support the new requirements for Student Project Management in Workday

Creating and Updating Workday configurations based on requirement changes

Provide support for regular and special Student Project Management processes in Workday

Provide support Student Project Management activities like posting, bank transfers and paychecks in Workday

Provide support for Legal and regulatory reports in Workday

Provide support for year-end reporting and other year-end activities in Workday

Manage small on and off-shore functional teams

Identify strategies, risks, and options, recommend approaches and mitigations to meet client/functional requirements

Architect Workday Student solutions to ensure that all work streams are cohesive and cross functional impacts are considered and mitigated

Advise clients on industry standards and leading practices.

Demonstrate design options through the use of prototyping.

Understand and apply Workday and Accenture methodologies.

Provide the Student Project Manager with status updates and keep them apprised of overall project status.

Demonstrate strong client and stakeholder management to achieve project objectives

Support innovation through the creation of new industry leading methods and assets

Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements

Here's what you need:

Workday Partner Certification

Minimum of 3 years of consulting experience, most recently in a Lead or similar level role

Minimum of 3 years of Workday Student Project Management Implementations

Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years work experience). If Associate’s Degree must have equivalent minimum 6 year work experience.

Bonus points if you have:

You have 4 years of Student PM related implementations

You demonstrate knowledge of the HR function & processes

You have experience in Higher Education Workday implementations

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in California, Colorado, New York or Washington as set forth below.We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.

Information on benefits is here. (https://www.accenture.com/us-en/careers/local/total-rewards)

Role Location Annual Salary Range

California $73,000 to $192,600

Colorado $73,000 to $166,400

New York $67,600 to $192,600

Washington $77,700 to $177,200

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