Senior Associate, Workday - Projects/Assets/Customers Lead

KPMG - Charlotte, NC

Full-time - Mid Level

Charlotte, NC

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Senior Associate, Workday Projects/Assets/Customers Lead at KPMG is responsible for leading finance transformation initiatives using the Workday platform. This role involves designing, configuring, testing, and deploying business processes related to Projects, Assets, and Customers. The position requires strong client interaction, risk management, and support for business development activities, while also supervising staff on assigned engagements.

Responsibilities

• Lead Workday enabled finance transformation of Projects, Assets, and Customers workstream(s) to design, configure, test, and deploy leading practice-based business processes
• Conduct client facing design sessions for Workday to understand pain points and complexities while gathering configuration requirements including data needed for conversion
• Understand and proactively manage risks to protect the business and minimize impact of disruptions by identifying and communicating findings to senior management and clients
• Support business development activities such as identification, proposal development, and other pursuit activities; work with the appropriate KPMG resources from other service lines/industries
• Supervise and manage staff working on assigned engagements
• Act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold KPMG's respectful and courteous work environment

Requirements

• Minimum three years of recent experience or four or more full lifecycle engagements implementing the Workday platform for Projects, Assets and Customers
• Bachelor's degree in a related field from an accredited college/university; advanced degree in finance, accounting, business information systems; CPA is a plus
• Certifications in Workday Core Financials, along with applicable additional focused Workday certifications (required to secure one within three months from the commencement of employment)
• Strong verbal and analytical skills with the ability to write at a client facing business communications level
• Detailed understanding of ERP core System concepts including transactional lifecycles including but not limited to Record to Report, Procure to Pay, general module functionality, and relational module dependencies/ impact

Benefits

• Life insurance
• 401(k) plans
• Medical and dental plans
• Vision coverage
• Disability insurance
• Personal Time Off per fiscal year
• Firmwide breaks during the year
• Robust suite of personal well-being benefits to support mental health