Transformation - Workday Solution Architect

Grant Thornton International Ltd
  • Chicago, IL
  • $169,280–$226,412 Per Year
10 days ago

Job Description

Technology Modernization - Workday Solution Architect

As a Workday Solution Architect within the Transformation Practice, you will help organizations proactively shape and implement their overall strategy and supporting initiatives. Specific to client interaction, you will play a key role in the delivery of engagements and work with chief operating officers, chief financial officers, and other senior client leaders to demonstrate your subject matter expertise as we seek to help them implement solutions in support of their broader strategy and goal of creating value.

Your day-to-day may include:

  • Assist in full life cycle implementations including planning, design, & build phases
  • Responsible for documenting business requirements, system design and transformational goals
  • Configure applications and conduct iterative unit testing
  • Help to create training materials and quick reference guides to support user adoption
  • Conduct training classes to prepare end users for deployment
  • Provide post-production support
  • Assist with full life cycle implementations
  • Meet or exceed targeted billing hours (utilization)
  • Other duties as assigned

You have the following technical skills, qualifications, and abilities:

  • Bachelor''s degree in Accounting, Business, Information Technology, MIS or related field required. A Master's degree is a plus.
  • 2+ years of related work experience in a similar consulting practice or function servicing cross-industry clients at a national level.
  • Minimum of 2 full life cycle implementations of Workday.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Knowledge of software development lifecycles, key metrics and reports.
  • Experience with ERP Application Integration & back-end data connectivity applications.
  • Experience installing/configuring/implementing Workday Applications.
  • Knowledge of Workday ERP (Financials, SCM, etc.)
  • Proven ability delivering complex and time sensitive projects.
  • Strong leadership skills: able to conduct meetings and write technically oriented documents
  • Able to work with clients to understand current state processes and define future state processes based on business objectives
  • Ability to work additional hours as needed
  • Ability to travel to various client sites as needed on short notice
  • Travel percentage: up to 40%

The base salary range for this position is between $169,280 and $226,412. Placement within the pay range is at Grant Thornton's discretion, and it is based on multiple factors, including but not limited to, job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, progression within the role, geographic location, and internal equity. At Grant Thornton, compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each position and candidate

At Grant Thornton, we believe in making business more personal and building trust into every result - for our clients and you. Here, we go beyond your expectations of a career in professional services by offering a career path with more: more opportunity, more flexibility, and more support. It's what makes us different, and we think being different makes us better.

In the U.S., Grant Thornton delivers professional services through two specialized entities: Grant Thornton LLP, a licensed, certified public accounting (CPA) firm that provides audit and assurance services ― and Grant Thornton Advisors LLC (not a licensed CPA firm), which exclusively provides non-attest offerings, including tax and advisory services.

In 2025, Grant Thornton formed a multinational, multidisciplinary platform with Grant Thornton Ireland. The platform offers a premier Trans-Atlantic advisory and tax practice, as well as independent American and Irish audit practices. With $2.7 billion in revenues and more than 50 offices spanning the U.S., Ireland and other territories, the platform delivers a singular client experience that includes enhanced solutions and capabilities, backed by powerful technologies and a roster of 12,000 quality-driven professionals enjoying exceptional career-growth opportunities and a distinctive cross-border culture.

Grant Thornton is part of the Grant Thornton International Limited network, which provides access to its member firms in more than 150 global markets.

Numbers & Facts

LocationChicago, IL
Salary$169,280–$226,412 Per Year

Skills

  • Accountingunmatched
  • Accounting Certificationsunmatched
  • Billingunmatched
  • Certified Public Accountant (CPA)unmatched
  • Communication Skillsunmatched
  • Consultingunmatched
  • Customer Acquisitionunmatched
  • Customer Experienceunmatched
  • Customer Relationsunmatched
  • Documentationunmatched
  • ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)unmatched
  • Exceeded Sales Goalunmatched
  • Head of Financeunmatched
  • Information Technology & Information Systemsunmatched
  • Leadershipunmatched
  • Management of Information Systems/Technology (MIS)unmatched
  • Metricsunmatched
  • Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
  • Production Supportunmatched
  • Professional Servicesunmatched
  • Public Accountingunmatched
  • Service Deliveryunmatched
  • Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)unmatched
  • Technical Writingunmatched
  • Training/Teachingunmatched
  • User Documentationunmatched
  • Willing to Travelunmatched
  • Writing Skillsunmatched

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