Workday Consultant
Overview
Drive meaningful planning transformation for higher education and public-sector organizations as a Workday Consultant. In this client-facing contract role, you will help finance, budget, HR, and executive stakeholders modernize budgeting, forecasting, workforce planning, reporting, and long-range financial planning through Workday Adaptive Planning.
You will combine functional expertise in higher education and/or government finance with hands-on planning, solution design, stakeholder engagement, and AI-accelerated delivery. From leading discovery workshops to configuring models, developing executive reporting, and supporting go-live, you will help organizations bring greater structure, accountability, and insight to complex financial environments.
Required Skills
- At least 4 years of experience in one or more of the following:
- Higher education finance or budgeting
- Government or public-sector budgeting and financial planning
- FP&A or planning transformation consulting
- Workday Adaptive Planning consulting or administration
- Experience working within or supporting higher education institutions and/or government organizations
- Strong understanding of budgeting, forecasting, workforce planning, and financial reporting processes
- Experience leading client-facing meetings, discovery sessions, and workshops
- Ability to translate organizational business processes into scalable planning models
- Demonstrated ability to use AI tools effectively in a professional setting, including:
- Writing clear prompts
- Validating AI-generated output
- Integrating AI into day-to-day delivery
- Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced consulting environment
- Experience supporting solution design, testing, validation, training, or go-live activities
- Ability to collaborate effectively with Finance, Budget, HR, Provost, Institutional Research, Student Affairs, department, and executive stakeholders
Nice to Have Skills
- Active Workday Adaptive Planning certification
- Familiarity with Workday Adaptive Decision Intelligence or scenario-based, AI-driven planning
- Experience with enrollment planning, tuition and financial aid modeling, or faculty demand and workload planning
- Experience with workforce planning, personnel budgeting, or vacancy management
- Experience with long-range financial planning, grants management, fund forecasting, auxiliary planning, capital planning, or strategic initiative planning
- Knowledge of budget book and ACFR reporting processes
- Experience integrating planning solutions with platforms such as Banner, Workday, Colleague, PeopleSoft, Ellucian, Tyler Technologies, Munis, Oracle, SAP, or other ERP and SIS systems
- Experience with OfficeConnect, dashboards, and executive reporting
- Experience applying AI tools to consulting, financial analysis, or modeling work
- Prior consulting experience
- Experience supporting proposal development, demonstrations, or solution discussions
- Interest in mentoring junior consultants and contributing to consulting methodologies or AI accelerators
Preferred Education and Experience
- Relevant experience in higher education finance, government finance, public-sector planning, FP&A, Workday Adaptive Planning, or financial transformation consulting is preferred.
- A minimum of 4 years of relevant professional experience is required.
- Specific degree requirements were not provided.
Other Requirements
- Work arrangement: Remote
- Employment type: Contract or contract part-time
- Contract duration: 12 months or longer
- Travel: Periodic client travel may be required, generally less than 10% and dependent on project needs
- Ability to work effectively in a highly collaborative, autonomous, and client-facing consulting environment
- Commitment to quality, accountability, clear communication, and responsible use of AI in client delivery
- Availability to begin as soon as possible
