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Principal Consultant

Workday Hybrid senior full-time

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Description

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

Key Responsibilities:

  • Contribute to and maintain higher education standard practices reflecting new industry requirements and trends.
  • Determine customer requirements and advise on tailored Workday Student solutions.
  • Demonstrate designed solutions to key stakeholders throughout the deployment lifecycle.
  • Constructively challenge customer requests that risk not achieving their intended business outcomes.
  • Own status reporting and overall project health for your workstream.
  • Lead or shape customer prospect discovery sessions.
  • Advise on Statement of Work content and project estimates.
  • Act as an escalation point for complex issues in your area of specialization.
  • Rapidly build Workday Student product expertise.
  • Manage your time and priorities across multiple concurrent customer engagements.
  • Lead training and enablement sessions to share your expertise.
  • Mentor and support the development of less experienced consultants.

Requirements:

  • 7+ years of experience implementing or supporting student systems (SIS) solutions in Student Financials.
  • 7+ years of consulting experience.
  • Experience within the Higher Education industry.
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
  • Ability to travel as needed.

Benefits:

  • Flexible work arrangements, combining in-person time and remote work.
  • Opportunity to create a flexible schedule catering to your business, team, and personal needs.

Work Arrangement:

  • Hybrid

Skills

Required

  • Workday Student
  • Student Financials
  • Higher Education
  • Consulting

Nice to have

  • Workday Student implementation
  • Higher Education industry experience
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