Senior Solutions Consultant Financial Services
Amsterdam - Netherlands
Job Summary
As a Senior Solution Consultant you will partner with Sales and internal stakeholders as a strategic technical lead to drive complex enterprise outcomes across your territory. You will move beyond traditional pre-sales to take end-to-end accountability for technical wins bridging business transformation with advanced data architectures ecosystem integrations and practical AI applications.
You will uncover complex technical and business requirements through deep advisory discovery guiding enterprise IT architecture and business leaders on modernising workflows and data management to demonstrate the full value of the Workiva platform.
The solutions relevant to this role are bespoke to the Financial Services sector specifically targeting Investments Insurance and Banking. You will bring specific technical subject matter expertise to the Sales function supporting both the business and functional aspects of the Workiva platform through technical and architecture presentations product demonstrations and value-based messaging. You will also develop example solutions prototypes and proofs of concept to demonstrate the viability and value of Workivas solutions.
What Youll Do
Act as the primary technical lead for enterprise sales opportunities with particular focus on integration data management and the fit of the Workiva platform within complex customer technology ecosystems.
Partner closely with Regional Sales Directors and other customer-facing teams to understand customer challenges requirements and desired business outcomes.
Lead solution discovery and value-based conversations across Workivas core solutions including Financial Reporting GRC and Sustainability.
Facilitate and guide conversations with enterprise IT architecture and business leaders around technology strategy data management integrations and modernisation.
Provide technical and architecture presentations product demonstrations and value-based messaging tailored to Financial Services customers.
Gather complex business and technical requirements and translate them into compelling practical solutions using the Workiva platform.
Design customised solutions that address customer requirements and support the transformation and modernisation of finance and business processes.
Develop example solutions prototypes and proofs of concept to demonstrate the viability functionality and value of Workivas solutions.
Work with Solution Consultants to create or adapt custom demonstration environments and solutions for customers and prospective customers.
Partner with Sales to build business cases and proposals that clearly articulate Workivas value business outcomes and ROI.
Support Sales with Territory and Pipeline Development by building hypothesis-driven engagement plans inspecting qualification gates before committing evaluation resources and identifying high-value expansion opportunities across accounts.
Serve as the primary technical partner for strategic and complex enterprise opportunities.
Provide project and relationship management across larger customers with broader and more complex requirements.
Develop trusted relationships with senior customer stakeholders across IT architecture finance and lines of business.
Work across the full spectrum of the customers finance organisation to identify opportunities for transformation through innovative use of the Workiva platform.
Provide leadership and coordination across cross-functional Workiva resources throughout customer-facing initiatives.
Partner with selected Workiva business partners on joint customer initiatives to deliver against customer business objectives.
Work closely with Workiva partner and customer support teams to support smooth onboarding adoption and long-term customer success.
Guide enterprise IT architecture and line-of-business leaders on modernising data management through Workivas platform automated workflows integrations and practical AI capabilities.
Mentor and train other team members sharing technical industry and domain expertise.
Maintain a strong commercial mindset influencing customer decisions and contributing to overall sales strategy.
What Youll Need
Minimum Qualifications
6 years of relevant experience in pre-sales solution consulting technical sales solution delivery or management consulting within a complex enterprise technology environment.
Bachelors degree in a related field preferred or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred Qualifications
Previous experience working within the Financial Services sector particularly across Investments Insurance or Banking.
Prior experience working with Private/Mutual Fund Reporting Investor Relations Capital Planning Treasury Regulatory Reporting or Insurance Statutory Reporting.
Experience with financial reporting or financial management technology such as Allvue SS&C Yardi Investran Oracle Workday SAP or the Workiva platform.
Experience preparing and delivering software presentations demonstrations and proofs of concept or implementing complex enterprise software platforms such as ERP business intelligence financial performance management or data management technologies.
Hands-on technical experience with SaaS solutions cloud technologies and enterprise architectures including integrations and data management.
Proven ability to gather business and technical needs and translate them into compelling value-based software demonstrations and solution proposals.
Strong understanding of finance and accounting processes with the ability to connect technology capabilities to business outcomes.
Proven ability to position and consult on modern data strategies enterprise integrations and practical AI applications within complex enterprise ecosystems.
Deep multi-domain knowledge across Financial Performance Management GRC or Sustainability/ESG frameworks.
Experience engaging with and presenting to business and IT managers senior stakeholders and executive-level audiences.
Excellent client-facing presentation verbal written and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to distil complex technical concepts into clear business-value-focused messages.
Strong problem-solving ability with the capability to understand complex business challenges and articulate practical effective technology solutions.
Strong leadership consulting project and time-management skills with the ability to manage multiple customer engagements and priorities.
Ability and willingness to provide training and share domain knowledge with different internal and external audiences.
Highly commercial mindset with the ability to influence customer decisions and contribute meaningfully to sales strategies.
Creative collaborative and solutions-oriented mindset with a strong attitude of camaraderie and partnership.
Self-motivated with a strong propensity for action results and continuous improvement.
Travel Requirements & Working Conditions
Up to 30% travel for customer and internal meetings.
Reliable internet access for any period of time working remotely and not in a Workiva office.
Why Join Workiva
Workiva is the platform designed to bring confidence control and a competitive edge to the worlds most complex organizations. Our AI-powered platform unifies finance risk and sustainability on a single secure foundationensuring data is trusted traceable and ready to act on. With an unbroken path from source to output leaders gain confidence in their numbers visibility into current and emerging risks and the ability to move with speed and precision in a constantly changing world.
At Workiva youll bring technology to market that executives boards and regulators depend on. The work you do here helps organizations navigate uncertainty maintain trust and make decisions that stand up to scrutiny. If youre energized by meaningful challenges inspired by collaborative teams and motivated to help organizations turn uncertainty into advantage wed love to meet you.
Workiva is an Equal Opportunity believe that great minds think value diversity of backgrounds beliefs and interests and we recognize diversity as an important source of intellectual thought varied perspective and innovation. Employment decisions are made without regard to age gender identity race religion disability status sexual orientation or any other protected characteristic.
Workiva is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. To request assistance with the application process please email.
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About Company
Workiva's cloud-based software transforms work with assured, integrated reporting solutions for finance, ESG, audit & risk—connecting people, data & processes.