Description
Workday is looking for an experienced Senior Functional Consultant to join our Higher Education (Student) consulting practice in Australia, specializing in Student Reporting.
In this role, you will help higher education customers design and build the reports, dashboards, and analytics they need to run their institution , covering areas such as admissions and enrollment funnels, academic records, curriculum, student financials, and regulatory/compliance reporting.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead requirements-gathering workshops with customer stakeholders to define reporting and analytics needs across the student lifecycle.
- Design, build, and test custom reports, calculated fields, dashboards, and discovery boards within Workday to meet functional and regulatory reporting requirements.
- Advise customers on Workday reporting best practices, including report security, performance considerations, and reuse of delivered reporting content.
- Partner with Functional Consultants on Student Records, Admissions, Recruiting, Curriculum & Advising, and Student Financials to ensure reporting reflects underlying business process configuration.
- Support data validation and reconciliation activities to ensure reporting accuracy against source data and legacy system outputs.
- Lead testing cycles for reporting deliverables and troubleshoot issues through to resolution.
- Guide customers on institutional and government/regulatory reporting requirements relevant to the Australian higher education sector.
- Mentor and provide functional guidance to Functional Consultants and Associate Consultants on reporting design within the engagement.
- Document reporting specifications, data lineage, and support materials for customer and internal reference.
- Stay current on new Workday reporting features and Student release updates, and help evolve internal reporting methodology and reusable report libraries for the APAC region.
Basic Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience building reports and analytics within Workday, or a comparable Student Information System (SIS)/enterprise platform, with exposure to Student, Financials, or HCM domains.
- 3+ years of consulting experience leading customer-facing workstreams on complex, enterprise-scale implementations.
Other Qualifications:
- Demonstrated experience with report design tools such as calculated fields, custom reports, and dashboards/discovery boards.
- Experience with Workday Student reporting specifically (admissions, academic records, curriculum, student financials) strongly preferred.
- Workday Pro certification in Reporting preferred.
- Familiarity with Australian higher education regulatory and government reporting requirements is a plus.
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail, with the ability to translate ambiguous business questions into clear reporting solutions.
- Excellent communication skills, able to explain reporting logic and design trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience mentoring junior consultants and leading workstreams with minimal oversight.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
- Based in Australia, with willingness to travel to customer sites across APAC as needed.