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Senior Consultant Workday Adaptive Planning

CPM Team • Mulgrave, Victoria 3170, Australia • Full-time

Description

  • Join the Workday Adaptive Planning Partner of the Year (APJ)!
  • Develop your consulting career within a growing, high performing advisory practice
  • Hybrid WFH and Onsite options
  • We are a certified Great Place to Work

We are currently seeking an experienced Senior Consultant to join our Corporate Performance Management Practice to advise clients on how to improve enterprise-wide budgeting, forecasting, planning, and performance outcomes – utilising Workday Adaptive Planning.

This consulting role is full time and permanent, and will involve a mix of Work From Home, office and client-site work.

In this role, you will act as a trusted advisor to senior finance and business leaders, helping organisations design and implement improved planning, budgeting and reporting frameworks that support strategic decision-making, operational efficiencies, and sustainable growth.

You would be responsible for:

  • Conducting business analysis sessions to scope and advise clients on improvements to financial planning, forecasting, and performance management frameworks to support business strategy, commercial objectives, and workforce planning.
  • Leading structured consulting engagements to diagnose client challenges, and recommend the implementation of best practice operating models and solutions using Workday Adaptive Planning
  • Reviewing, analysing and improving complex financial models for clients to improve financial forecasting, scenario analysis, reporting accuracy, and decision support
  • Developing and refining Statements of Work (SoWs), consulting deliverables, and best practice implementation roadmaps aligned to clients’ commercial priorities.
  • Working with senior client stakeholders to obtain feedback, undertake further analysis, and deliver clear, actionable recommendations
  • Managing consulting engagements end-to-end -including stakeholder management, project governance, timeline management, and budget tracking, and quality of outcomes.
  • Collaborating with other Senior Consultants and the Practice Manager to ensure continuous improvement of consulting methodologies, and to optimise productivity across multiple concurrent projects
  • Contribute to business development activities including creation of tailored proposals and client presentations.
  • Managing, leading and mentoring other consultants within the team
  • Ensuring that work is delivered in line with governance, compliance and security standards, particularly in relation to sensitive financial data

To be considered for the role you will need:

  • Relevant qualifications (Qualifications in business information systems, CA/CPA qualifications, and/or a combination of both will be highly regarded)
  • Extensive experience leading consulting engagements involving Workday Adaptive Planning
  • Workday Adaptive Planning Certifications
  • Extensive Business to Business Consulting experience, particularly with a CPM/EPM specialisation
  • Strong commercial acumen, analytical capability and problem-solving skills
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Proficient with Microsoft Excel and SQL
  • Strong passion for technology and how it can help improve business processes
  • Proactive, self-driven with high career aspirations
  • Excellent problem solving and analytical skills with attention to detail
  • Strong project and time management skills to manage multiple projects simultaneously
  • Able to do to short term infrequent travel when required
  • Possess a current driver’s licence and a vehicle

QMetrix are a specialist consultancy in the Corporate Performance Management and Master Data Management space, run by a team of very experienced professionals and subject matter experts. We are a growing team that currently comprises 30+ people with a presence in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Singapore. QMetrix has recently been certified as a Great Place to Work™.

If you are interested in building a rewarding career in management consulting, combining strategic thinking with technology-enabled solutions to transform finance and performance outcomes for clients, apply now.

Please note that once you have submitted your resume and cover letter, you will receive a screening questionnaire; this questionnaire forms the first step in our assessment process. Only candidates who submit responses to these questions will be considered for the position.

Role Type

Permanent • Full-time • Mid-level Senior