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Accenture

Advises businesses and runs their technology

Workday Certified Financials Grants Lead

Full-Time
$62.8k - $218.8k/yr+ Bonus
Mid
Bachelor's, Associate's
Boston, MA, USA+39 moreMore locations: Seattle, WA, USA | Houston, TX, USA | Des Moines, IA, USA | Nashville, TN, USA | San Francisco, CA, USA | Austin, TX, USA | Detroit, MI, USA | Cleveland, OH, USA | Los Angeles, CA, USA | Miami, FL, USA | Morristown, NJ, USA | Dallas, TX, USA | Raleigh, NC, USA | Philadelphia, PA, USA | Chicago, IL, USA | Charlotte, NC, USA | Arlington County, Arlington, VA, USA | St. Louis, MO, USA | Milwaukee, WI, USA | Carmel, IN, USA | Beaverton, OR, USA | Pittsburgh, PA, USA | Sacramento, CA, USA | Walnut Creek, CA, USA | Kirkland, WA, USA | Albany, NY, USA | Scottsdale, AZ, USA | Columbus, OH, USA | Hartford, CT, USA | Oklahoma City, OK, USA | New York, NY, USA | Minneapolis, MN, USA | Denver, CO, USA | Mountain View, CA, USA | Atlanta, GA, USA | San Diego, CA, USA | St. Petersburg, FL, USA | Cincinnati, OH, USA | Overland Park, KS, USA
HybridTravel may range from 0% to 100%, depending on business needs and client requirements.
Solution EngineeringImplementation & Technical Account Management
No H1B Sponsorship

About the job

Requirements
  • Workday Financials and Grants Partner Certification is required.
  • At least 3 years of consulting experience, most recently at Consultant or a similar level, is required.
  • At least 3 years of hands-on Workday Financials Grants implementation experience is required.
  • At least 3 years of experience working with Enterprise Resource Planning platforms is required.
  • A bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience is required, with a minimum of 12 years of work experience for degree equivalency; an associate's degree is accepted with at least 6 years of work experience.
  • Applicants for employment in the United States must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require visa sponsorship.
Responsibilities
  • Identify business requirements; develop functional and process designs, including scenario design and flow mapping; prototype, test, and train; and define support procedures.
  • Lead workshops to educate clients.
  • Conduct working sessions with clients to gather, understand, and analyze business requirements.
  • Support the Financials Lead in architecting Workday Grants solutions, ensuring work streams are cohesive and cross-functional impacts are considered and mitigated.
  • Advise clients on industry standards and leading practices.
  • Demonstrate design options through prototyping.
  • Understand and apply Workday and Accenture methodologies.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience designing Fund Accounting, Clinical Trials, Labor Costing, Effort Certification, and Pre-Award business processes within an Enterprise Resource Planning platform.
  • Experience working in hospital research or grants administration.
  • Proficiency in multiple business processes, including procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, general ledger, fixed assets, budgeting, and cash management.
  • Experience leading global and/or large-enterprise Workday engagements.
  • Experience implementing other leading cloud-based software-as-a-service financial applications, such as Oracle E-Business Suite, NetSuite, Infor, Unit4, PeopleSoft, Oracle Cloud ERP, SAP, and Lawson.
  • An advanced degree in Healthcare.

About the company

Accenture advises large businesses and public agencies on strategy, builds their technology systems and runs ongoing operations. Its teams connect business planning with implementation, covering areas such as cloud migration, cybersecurity and customer experience. Consultants work with clients to redesign processes, while engineers integrate software from technology partners and maintain the resulting systems for multinational organizations. Clients pay for project work or continuing services, including application support and business processes such as finance and customer service. Accenture was founded in 1989 and has its headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Dublin, Ireland

Founded

1989

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What believers are saying

  • Business demand grew: October 2026 results showed $74.2 billion annual revenue, up 5% in local currency.
  • Eligible US employees buy discounted stock: Accenture's purchase plan sells shares at 15% below market price.
  • Client relationships run deep: Accenture has worked with 195 of its top 200 customers for more than ten years.

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  • Bookings are not guaranteed revenue: most Accenture contracts let clients cancel quickly with little or no penalty.
  • Promotions require AI adoption: Accenture's CEO said in March 2026 that employees must use its tools effectively.
  • Federal hiring practices proved costly: Accenture settled discrimination allegations for $25 million in September 2026, without a liability finding.

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  • Its AI platform switches models: AI Refinery selects among prebuilt models according to cost, performance and other requirements.
  • Accenture owns specialist Microsoft expertise: it cofounded the Microsoft-focused Avanade consultancy with the software maker.
  • Consulting includes creative agencies: Accenture Song owns businesses spanning advertising, digital product design and customer engagement.

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Accenture reported revenue of nearly $74.2 billion for fiscal year 2026, up 6.5% year-over-year, with net income of roughly $8.5 billion. The professional services firm serves approximately 9,000 clients globally with 814,000 employees. Microsoft generated revenue of nearly $331.8 billion in FY 2026, a 17.8% increase, with net income of approximately $133.7 billion. The company's net margin reached close to 40.3%. Both companies maintained a debt-to-equity ratio of approximately 0.3x. Microsoft's free cash flow reached nearly $67.0 billion, whilst Accenture's was roughly $11.6 billion. Accenture recently addressed a $25 million settlement with the Department of Justice regarding federal contracting practices. Microsoft faces securities fraud class action lawsuits involving AI and Copilot claims, alongside antitrust scrutiny and an IRS tax audit.

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