Workday · 10 hours ago
Senior Functional Consultant - HCM and Security - Workday Success Plans
Chicago, IL
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$123K/yr - $184K/yr
5+ years expWorkday is a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents. They are seeking a Senior Functional Consultant for HCM and Security to help customers maximize the value of their Workday products through innovative services and excellent customer support.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareHuman ResourcesSaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Confidently and consistently provide excellent customer service
Engage customers to quickly understand business requirements
Share their broad experience with industry practices
Adapt and succeed independently in challenging situations
Develop and demonstrate system configuration solutions, articulating product capabilities, plus the benefits and risks of design decisions
Support multiple customers concurrently on short duration projects
Enjoy the reward of helping customers to be more self-sufficient, to stabilize and optimize their Workday applications and to learn about new features. Team members say the variety of services and unexpected challenges keeps the job exciting and fresh
Find that the highly collaborative nature of this team helps them to be productive and to demonstrate their strengths every day
Share expertise with customers on a variety of Ask-an-Expert requests by: Conducting research to ensure understanding of customer questions and related Workday concepts
Delivering small scope consulting in response to customer requests; providing configuration guidance, demonstrations, considerations, tips & tricks
Troubleshooting product configuration to resolve or provide optimal product configuration to meet customer business requirements
Clearly and effectively communicating responses and value to customers
Partner with an Engagement Manager to deliver services that include: Feature Adoption Workshops (Facilitate customer Workday feature roadmap discussions)
Functional Review (Tenant Review with Consulting Services)
Health Check (Tenant Review with Cross Functional Consulting Services)
Additional Services that our consultants deliver include: Collaboration Crews (Facilitate group customer sharing discussions)
Accelerator Webinars (Creating and delivering customer presentations on how to use Workday features to achieve business goals)
Feature Accelerator (Providing one-on-one consulting guidance to accelerate customer feature adoption)
Feature Adoption Tenant Reviews (Reviewing customer tenants to identify adoption opportunities)
Qualification
Required
5 + years of Human Capital Management software and consulting experience on medium or large enterprise HRIS projects, or applicable practitioner deployment experience
5 + years of experience with Workday Human Capital Management product area
3+ years of Workday Consulting experience or experience as a Workday SME
Demonstrates a solid grasp of HR related systems and processes. Able to gain a detailed understanding of Workday concepts and new feature releases in Core HCM, areas of expertise and cross application features
Certified or ability to certify in Workday HCM Products and to effectively deploy the solutions
Experience with influencing, interacting and collaborating with senior leaders, internally and externally
Capable of leading and influencing design meetings toward an effective and collaborative outcome
Ability to deliver and get results while managing to a project plan
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
The ability to work on multiple engagements simultaneously
Strong critical thinking skills so as to understand complex, technical process issues and facilitate/influence decision making
Bachelor's degree or related experience required
Ability to travel up to 10%
Preferred
Experience with global implementations is preferred
Benefits
Workday Bonus Plan
Role-specific commission/bonus
Annual refresh stock grants
Company
Workday
Workday provides SaaS-based enterprise solutions for a company's human resources and financial management activities.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.23BKey Investors
Elliott Management Corp.New Enterprise AssociatesGreylock
2025-09-16Post Ipo Equity· $2B
2012-10-12IPO
2011-10-24Series F· $85M
Leadership Team
Aneel Bhusri
CEO and Co-Founder
Peter Bailis
Chief Technology Officer
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