Workday

Senior Financial Functional Consultant - Spend Management - Workday Success Plans

Australia, VIC, Melbourne Full Time

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We’re obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, you’ll feel it. Not just in the products we build, but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. We’re in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workmates who’ve got your back. In return, we’ll give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, you’ve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too.

About the Team

The Workday Success Plans Delivery Team at Workday plays a crucial role in ensuring customers maximise the value they get from their Workday products. We focus on our customers’ post go-live journey, assuring long-term success. We deliver a variety of programs and services ranging from feature assessments to full feature deployments to support their growing and changing business needs within Workday.

At Workday, we help the world’s largest organisations adapt to what’s next by bringing finance, HR, and planning into a single enterprise cloud. We work hard, and we’re serious about what we do. But we like to have fun, too! We put people first, celebrate diversity, drive innovation, and prioritise giving back to our communities, demonstrating a commitment to corporate social responsibility. Our dedication to customer success, coupled with a vibrant and inclusive company culture, sets a strong foundation for continued growth and success at Workday.

About the Role

As a Workday Financials (Spend Management) Functional Consultant – Workday Success Plans, you will work closely with customers post go-live to identify optimization and adoption opportunities across the Purchase to Pay lifecycle to ensure they are fully leveraging their Workday Financials investment. 

You will: 

  • Serve as a functional configuration expert for Workday Spend Management, helping customers optimize requisition-to-pay processes, supplier management, and spend controls.

  • Perform tenant reviews, configuration assessments, and targeted, micro-consulting engagements and office-hours style sessions to help customers solve specific spend-related business problems using Workday.

  • Design and deliver feature demonstrations, Accelerator webinars, and enablement sessions to help customers understand and adopt new and existing Workday Spend Management capabilities. 

  • Partner with customers to translate business requirements into scalable, best-practice Workday configurations. 

This role is ideal for someone who is passionate about Workday Spend Management, enjoys configuration “hands-on,” and loves working directly with customers in an advisory consulting capacity.

Key Responsibilities

Share expertise with customers on a variety of Ask-an-Expert requests by:

  • Conducting research to ensure understanding of customer questions and related Workday concepts. 

  • Delivering small scope consulting in response to customer requests; providing configuration guidance, demonstrations, considerations, tips & tricks. 

  • Troubleshooting complex product configurations and data issues; propose and implement optimal configuration solutions to Workday Spend Management components, including but not limited to: 

    • Requisitions & Purchase Orders 

    • Supplier Contracts 

    • Supplier Accounts & Supplier Portal 

    • Supplier Invoices & Invoice Matching 

    • Inventory (as applicable) 

    • Expenses & Corporate Cards 

    • Asset Purchasing (procurement components)

Partner with an Engagement Manager to deliver services that include: 

  • Feature Adoption Workshops (Facilitate customer Workday feature roadmap discussions)

  • Functional Review (Tenant Review with Consulting Services) 

  • Health Check (Tenant Review with Cross Functional Consulting Services) 

Additional Services that our consultants deliver include: 

  • Collaboration Crews (Facilitate group customer sharing discussions). 

  • Accelerator Webinars (Creating and delivering customer presentations on how to use Workday features to achieve business goals). 

  • Feature Accelerator Coaching (Providing one-on-one consulting guidance to accelerate customer feature adoption).

About You

Basic Qualifications (P4 / Senior)

  • 5+ years of hands-on Workday Financials Spend Management configuration experience

  • 5+ years of experience with Workday Financials and financial systems

  • 3+ years of customer-facing consulting or advisory experience supporting Procure to Pay processes

Additional Qualifications

  • Workday Certification or ability to obtain a Workday Certification

  • Ability to clearly explain complex Procure to Pay and security concepts to non-technical stakeholders

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

  • Ability to manage multiple customer engagements and deliverables concurrently

  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

  • Experience supporting large, global enterprises with multi-entity and multi-currency accounting

  • Ability to travel up to 20%, based on customer and business needs

Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.



Our Approach to Flexible Work
 

With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.


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