Advisor, ERP Project Implementation (Workday Finance) - #1163266

About the role

The ERP Functional Solution Lead will support the Project Director in delivering the overall Finance Transformation objectives through the Workday Core Finance and Adaptive Planning (ERP / EPM) implementation. This role serves as the finance functional design and solutioning lead, ensuring that system design, configuration, and delivery align with business requirements, operating model objectives, and best practices. Acting as a critical bridge across business, IT, and the system integrator (SI), the role will drive solution integrity, challenge design decisions, and ensure the ERP delivers practical, scalable, and value-driven outcomes for Finance.

Key responsibilities

• Act as the Finance and Workday Financials SME and solutioning lead across ERP / EPM workstreams, ensuring end-to-end alignment with finance processes (R2R, P2P, O2C, Fixed Assets, etc.) while driving adoption of Workday best practices

• Partner with Finance leadership to define future-state processes, operating model, and system design principles, and challenge SI designs to ensure alignment with business objectives and industry standards

• Drive fit-for-purpose solutions by balancing standardization, scalability, and business practicality, ensuring operational viability post go-live and supporting business validation through testing of Workday solutions

• Drive cross-functional collaboration across Finance, IT and SI to manage dependencies, competing priorities, accelerate decisions, and resolve delivery risks

• Facilitate workshops to gather insights, validate design decisions, and drive alignment

• Support the design and alignment of key master data structures required for the new ERP system, including Chart of Accounts (CoA), organizational hierarchies, and reporting dimensions

• Lead business-side execution across key ERP lifecycle activities: requirements definition and fit-gap analysis, solution validation and configuration review, testing (SIT, UAT) and defect resolution, cutover and deployment readiness

• Ensure SI deliverables meet agreed business requirements, design standards, and quality expectations

• Validate end-to-end process flows, ensuring integration, controls, and reporting integrity

• Drive business readiness, user adoption, and operational handover

About you

• Bachelor's degree-level or equivalent

• At least 5 years implementing Financial, and/or Expense Management ERP solutions (Workday preferred) as either a consultant or customer

• Previous consulting experience with a consulting/software company

• Functional expertise in at least one of the following areas: General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Billing, Procurement, Asset Management, Projects, Expense Management, Financial Reporting, or Budgeting

• Formal project management methodology qualifications, PMP certification preferred

• Self-motivated, organized, forward-thinking, results orientated and able to manage priorities effectively

• Ability to manage multiple complex cross-functional programs at once, work to tight deadlines

• Strong communications and interpersonal skills in a multicultural environment with a good command of spoken and written English to influence and motivate

• Proficient in project management tools and Microsoft office (Teams, Excel, Word, Powerpoint)

• Strong analytical skills, meticulous, innovative and resourceful to resolve issues