Hybrid Director, Workday Accounting Center

at Huron

• Job title: Director, Workday Accounting Center
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $210,000 - $275,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Chicago, United States

About the role

• Huron Technical Director leading a world-class tech team to implement Workday solutions for clients in higher education. Providing coaching and managing engagement economics while developing client relationships.

Responsibilities

• providing leadership, coaching, and mentorship to analysts, associates, managers, subcontractors, and client personnel
• engaging in a multitude of industry and Practice responsibilities
• identifying gaps in practice knowledge
• discovering strategies to enhance capabilities
• developing detailed project plans
• managing budgets and resource loads
• leveraging expertise across the organization
• handling engagement economics
• developing/managing senior level client relationships
• ensuring high-level quality/efficiency on projects and deliverables

Requirements

• 5 + years of related experience with Workday implementation experience- with Workday Financials Certification in Workday Accounting Center
• Project implementation experience in one or more of the following areas: Workday Financials-Workday Financial Accounting, is the foundation for all Workday Financial solutions
• at least 1 -2 Full Life Cycle implementations with Accounting Center
• Handle all accounting activities and activity reports
• Identifying the needed security groups for financial accounting layout, arrangement of organization's mandatory accounting details, concept application of the favored approach to the account setup
• Actuals ledger creation, ledger creation, and maintaining the ledger period standing
• Certification is a MUST
• Excellent communication skills - oral and written - and the interpersonal skills needed quickly to establish relationships of trust and collaboration
• The ability to train and participate in the professional development of Huron staff in both project-management and technical dimensions
• The ability to contribute on multiple projects of differing scale and duration
• Strong analytical skills used to translate information from meetings into documentation that can be shared with meeting participants and project teams
• A desire and willingness to learn new tools, techniques, concepts, and methodologies
• Huron requires a Bachelor’s Degree in a field related to this position or equivalent work experience.
• Willingness to travel up to 50% of the time.

Benefits

• medical, dental and vision coverage
• 401(k) plan with a generous employer match
• employee stock purchase plan
• generous Paid Time Off policy
• paid parental leave and adoption assistance
• Wellness Program supports employee total well-being by providing free annual health screenings and coaching, bank at work, and on-site workshops