Full-Time

Senior Solution Consultant

Posted on 5/9/2026

Workday

Workday

10,001+ employees

Cloud-based HCM and ERP software

No salary listed

Melbourne VIC, Australia

Hybrid

Hybrid work: spend at least 50% of time in the office or with customers each quarter.

Category
Sales & Solution Engineering (1)
Required Skills
Workday HRIS
SAP Products
Oracle
Requirements
  • Experience across finance and accounting domains, including GL, AR, AP, Fixed Assets, Multi-Company and Consolidations, Multi-Currency
  • 5+ years of functional, implementation, consulting, or presales experience with Financial Management or ERP solutions
  • Strong understanding of additional Finance-related functions such as Procurement, Project Costing is beneficial
  • Proven experience engaging with enterprise finance stakeholders, including Controllers, CFOs, and Finance Transformation leaders
  • Exposure to Financial Management solutions from Workday, Oracle, SAP, Microsoft or similar would be an advantage
  • Experience in engagements with enterprises in Australia and New Zealand across one or more of the following industries - FSI, Higher Education, Healthcare, Government and Public Services, Retail, Professional Services etc.
Responsibilities
  • Provide Financials expertise, Executive presentations, and Workday Financials product demonstrations in partnership with the sales team to customers throughout the sales cycle.
  • Demonstrate the value of next generation SaaS Financial Management Applications and Artificial Intelligence Agents to Workday prospects and customers through interactive pre-sales discovery meetings.
  • Work in a highly complex environment that requires curiosity, flexibility, and drive.
  • Communicate and demonstrate the power of Workday's applications to prospects and customers.
  • Collaborate with sales counterparts and across Product Management, Consulting Services, Marketing, and Value Management teams to bring value of Workday solutions to life.
Desired Qualifications
  • You are a credible, dynamic finance transformation expert, ready to help organizations sell and operate the future of finance today.
  • An outstanding and confident presenter with strong communication and influencing skills, capable of engaging and persuading CFOs, Finance VPs, Controllers, and senior IT leaders.
  • Extensive experience in the finance and ERP technology space, with deep knowledge of Financial Management, ERP, EPM, and analytics platforms, and how they are applied to modernize finance operations.
  • Strong passion for AI, machine learning, automation, and agentic AI, with a clear point of view on how these technologies are transforming finance processes, insights, and decision-making.
  • Genuinely excited about Workday Financial Management and motivated to represent Workday’s next-generation AI-powered finance capabilities to the market.
  • Deep understanding of the finance operating model, enabling you to speak fluently with the Office of the CFO about governance, controls, efficiency, agility, and business outcomes—not just system features.
  • Proven ability to map customer-specific finance challenges directly to technology and AI driven solutions, articulating value in terms of faster close, improved visibility, stronger compliance, and reduced manual effort—rather than simply listing product functionality.

Workday provides enterprise cloud software for finance and human resources used by medium to large organizations. Its suite includes Workday HCM, Financial Management, Adaptive Planning, and Workday Student, all delivered on a subscription basis. The platform combines HR and financial processes with analytics and planning, and receives regular cloud updates; consulting and training services help with implementation. Workday differentiates itself with a unified cloud-based suite for HR and finance and tools like Workday Peakon Employee Voice to support employee engagement, aiming to help organizations run their workforce and finances more efficiently.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Pleasanton, California

Founded

2005

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