# Principal Consultant

**Company**: Workday
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We're seeking a Principal Consultant to join our ANZ consulting team, specializing in Workday's Student solutions for higher education institutions. As a functional consultant, you'll guide student lifecycle transformations, advise on Workday Student deployments, and collaborate with key stakeholders.

**Key Areas of Responsibility:**

- Contribute to and maintain higher education standard practices

- Determine customer requirements and advise on tailored Workday Student solutions

- Demonstrate designed solutions to key stakeholders

- Constructively challenge customer requests

- Own status reporting and project health

- Lead or shape customer prospect discovery sessions

- Advise on Statement of Work content and project estimates

- Act as an escalation point for complex issues

- Rapidly build Workday Student product expertise

- Manage time and priorities across multiple customer engagements

- Lead training and enablement sessions

- Mentor and support less experienced consultants

**Requirements:**

- 7+ years of experience implementing or supporting student systems (SIS) solutions in Student Records, Admissions, and Recruiting

- 7+ years of consulting experience

- Experience within the Higher Education industry

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

**Flexible Work:** We offer a flexible work arrangement, spending at least 50% of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with customers, prospects, and partners.

## Skills

### Required
- Workday Student
- Student Records
- Admissions
- Recruiting
- Higher Education

### Nice to have
- Workday Student implementation
- Higher Education industry experience

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