Workday Data Senior Analyst in Sydney

Accenture is a leading solutions and services company that helps the world’s leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed across the enterprise. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and to be the most client-focused, AI-enabled, great place to work in the world.

Through our Reinvention Services we bring together our capabilities across strategy, consulting, technology, operations, Song and Industry X with our deep industry expertise to create and deliver solutions and services for our clients. Our purpose is to deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity, and we measure our success by the 360° value we create for all our stakeholders.

Through Transformation Powered by Workday, we help HR and Finance define their strategy, technology and approach to become agile, strategic advisors that drive critical business outcomes and revenue. By automating day-to-day tasks, then uniting and orchestrating the data and planning abilities of Finance and HR in one seamless system, organizations can better align to business strategy and ensure that the right skills and resources are available when they are needed.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist with converting data from legacy systems and spreadsheets into the Workday Cloud HCM & Financials system.
• Converting Data into Workday using Workday provided loading tools.
• Create ETL scripts to transform and load data in preparation to load to Workday.
• Validate data loaded into Workday.
• Assist clients in mapping legacy data, identifying data quality issues and overall responsibility over conversion activities on the project.
• Responsible for key communication to project and client leadership.
• Closely follow the strategic direction set by leadership when establishing Workday project goals.
• Collaborate with client counterpart to successfully deliver on shared objectives.
• Responsible for timely identification and escalation of risks and development of alternative technical and functional approaches when necessary.
• Be involved with identification of process improvements and changes to our methodology based on project experience.

Your Skills and Qualifications:

• 1+ years’ previous consulting experience or congruent professional experience either as an internal Analyst or with a consulting/software company.
• 2+ years of experience in HRIS field with Workday related experience in data migration from SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, or similar applications.
• 1+ years of experience with XML, XSD, XSLT or XPath.
• Experience with ETL Software including Informatica, SAS, Clover or Pentaho.
• Experience with MySql or other database products.
• Formula and macro experience in Microsoft Excel.
• Experience with at least 2 full life cycle ERP implementations in a Data Conversion role.
• 1+ years project workstream experience.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work 4 days onsite.
• Willingness to travel as required.

Preferred Skills:

• Existing and current Workday HCM or Fins Core Certification.
• Four-year college degree in a computer related or engineering field or equivalent work experience.
• Keen understanding and demonstration of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Demonstrated experience in Reporting/Analytics.
• Consulting-based leadership experience on specialized projects with overall knowledge of information systems.
• Ability to lead teams of consultants and clients to reach the goals around data conversion.
• Self-starter with proven ability to work within a team-oriented environment.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and to adapt to frequent change.
• Demonstrated ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.
• Demonstrated experience with Excel, Visio, MS Project (or equivalent) and PowerPoint.

Mandatory Requirements:

As the resource will be accessing sensitive data on the client site, they will need to be an Australian Citizen with current or ability to gain Baseline Security Clearance.

All of our consulting professionals receive comprehensive training covering business acumen, technical and professional skills development. You’ll also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization. We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster.

Accenture Benefits:

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