Workday Adaptive Planning Senior Principal Consultant (Global Delivery Center)

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with clients to understand their current Adaptive Planning configuration and take a consultative approach to resolve break fixes, enhancements, training, and road map discussions of clients live on Adaptive Planning.

• Leverage your expertise to recommend the best solution based on the client’s requirements, budget, and time frame; with the flexibility to adapt the scope as additional needs are identified.

• Guide the customer through facilitated design sessions and configuration decisions based on best practices and an understanding of the customer’s unique business requirements for enhancements to Adaptive Planning.

• Perform multiple tasks under limited direction, while regularly keeping the client, your project team and your Engagement Manager updated of changes or progress related to the project.

• Act as a mentor to fellow consultants and analysts, including providing support for shadow assignments.

• Proven ability to review Statements of Work (SOWs) to assure proper scoping, timelines, and resource allocations.

• Actively participate in update training and internal opportunities to share one’s skills and learnings with others within the organization.

• Maintain cutting-edge knowledge of product functionality with each new Workday release.

Education & Experience Requirements:

• Adaptive Planning Platform Certification preferred.

• Experience configuring Workday Adaptive Planning Foundational Elements and Sheets

• Experience with Adaptive Modeling and Formula Building

• Detailed understanding of Adaptive Planning processes and best practices

• Experience delivering training materials and sessions to promote end-user adoption

• Experience with Adaptive Integrations and Workday Power of One.

• Adaptive Reporting Experience (Dashboards, Matrix, OfficeConnect)

• Understands cross functional impacts with Workday

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.

• Experience gathering requirements, designing, prototyping, testing, and deploying solutions to meet client requirements.

• Proven track-record of client success with an ability to plan, monitor and report project plans with experience managing budget, scope, and timelines. 

• Ability to create and sustain a relationship with clients, inspiring confidence in themselves and the delivery team while driving to reference-ability.

• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to effectively manage client expectations.

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Why choose Cognizant:

• Entrepreneurial environment that welcomes your ideas
• Opportunity to do great work
• Outreach programs that support communities and tap into your volunteer spirit
• Learning opportunities to help current needs and advancement
• Global operations, with opportunities in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific
• An abundance of Affinity groups to meet your needs

Cognizant Core Values:

• Start with a point of view: I apply my expertise to gain trust and to lead our clients forward.
• Seek data, build knowledge: I use facts to guide my actions and decisions.
• Always strive, never settle: I act with agility and creativity, determined to stay one step ahead.
• Work as one: I deliver solutions that draw upon the full power and scale of Cognizant.
• Create conditions for everyone to thrive: I include, enable, and invest in everyone around me.
• Do the right thing, the right way: I always make the ethical choice.