Principal Product Advisor, Spend Management

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About the Team

The Growth (GO) Implementation Strategy team focuses on building optimizing and scaling an AI driven deployment approach so that Workday deployments are repeatable high quality and insight-driven across our ecosystem. Our mission is to enable our customers to adopt Workday products in the most effective and efficient manner to ensure lasting success.

About the Role

As a Principal Product Advisor Financials you are the primary architect of an AI driven Workday Financials deployment for our GO customers. You will define deployment workflows configurations automation and AI tooling that significantly reduce the customer and consulting effort to deploy our products and increase customer satisfaction.
You will continuously assess deployment tool enhancements optimize pre-configured content and translate delivery learnings escalations and patterns into concrete improvements. You will also partner with engineering to build AI-driven tools that reduce deployment effort and improve quality. As a P5 Principal you lead complex cross-functional initiatives with high autonomy partnering with senior leaders across Product Services and Sales.
Depending on the assigned pillar (Core Financials Spend Management or Revenue Management) you will provide:
Domain Strategy: Drive the end-to-end deployment approach and content for your pillarwhether that is Core Financial Management (General Ledger Assets Reporting/Analytics) Spend Management (Accounts Payable Expenses Procurement) or Revenue Management (Revenue Recognition Customer Accounts Contracts).
Cross-Pillar Foundation: Drive excellence in Banking and Settlement and ensure seamless integration across all financial workstreams.
Data and Reporting Excellence: Solve for complex reporting needsincluding statutory management and operational reportingby building scalable tool-based solutions.
Deployment Automation: Identify patterns in implementation challenges and partner with engineering to build AI-driven tools that reduce deployment effort and improve quality.

About You

Basic Qualifications
Experience: 10 years of experience in enterprise software deployment financial systems consulting or a related advisory role within Workday Financials across at least one major pillar (Core Financials Spend or Revenue).
Implementation & Technical Leadership: Proven track record of leading complex global workstreams and strong hands-on proficiency with the Workday Financials product.
AI Fluency: Comfortable using AI tools and generative AI assistants to design or enhance implementation workflows documentation and training content.
Strategic Impact: Experience translating deployment challenges and performance data into actionable automated solutions for an enterprise software implementer.
Other Qualifications
Enterprise Software Deployment: Deep experience planning configuring and optimizing enterprise financial software deployments including managing updates troubleshooting issues and ensuring alignment with existing infrastructure.
Stakeholder Management: Skilled at building and managing relationships with senior leaders across Product Services and Sales ensuring alignment on deployment strategy and facilitating clear communication across groups with diverse needs and priorities.
Solutions Development: Experienced in designing and implementing strategies or systems that solve specific deployment challenges and improve operational efficiency from optimizing pre-configured content to creating new automation workflows.
Consulting: Demonstrated ability to provide expert advice and solutions in Workday Financials or comparable ERP domains including analyzing deployment issues developing strategies and implementing improvements that enhance delivery outcomes.
Business Acumen: Ability to understand and interpret business situationssuch as customer financial reporting requirements and deployment patternsto make informed decisions that improve deployment quality and efficiency.
Customer Centric Focus: A strong orientation toward understanding and prioritizing the needs of delivery teams and end customers using their feedback and experience to drive meaningful improvements in the deployment approach.
Content Development: Experience planning creating and managing deployment content guidance materials and tooling documentation for use by delivery teams and partners.
Communication: Ability to clearly and effectively share complex financial and technical information across diverse audiences from delivery consultants to senior leadership adapting your style to the situation.
Problem Solving: Skilled at identifying anticipating and addressing deployment challenges translating patterns in escalations and feedback into scalable solutions.
Leadership: Ability to guide and influence cross-functional teams toward shared goals without direct authority fostering collaboration and driving alignment on complex initiatives.
Adaptability: Comfortable navigating change learning from setbacks and finding a path forward when faced with evolving deployment requirements new product features or shifting priorities.
Learning Agility: Ability to quickly learn from new deployment experiences and apply those learnings to unfamiliar situations staying current as Workdays platform and tooling evolve.

Workday Pay Transparency Statement

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidates compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including but not limited to geography experience skills job duties and business need among other things. For more information regarding Workdays comprehensive benefits please click here.

Primary Location:

Primary Location Base Pay Range: $158400 USD - $237600 USD

Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $150500 USD - $267400 USD

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