The Senior Director, Consulting Services, Workday Financials should be a “go to” practice leader, expected to provide expert guidance to the Consulting management team and their subsequent team members. This person works closely with Engagement Managers, Project Managers, Managing Consultants, and leads, and acts as a liaison between the Consulting team and executive management. This person will assist in identifying business needs, staffing projects, and ensuring that the work/life balance of our consultants is monitored and adjusted appropriately. This individual will assist the sales team with sales activities such as orals, estimations, and Statements of Work (SOW’s). Key Responsibilities: Project Oversight: • Oversight responsibility for projects across the practice. • Oversee and assist engagement/project managers and team members when needed to identify project needs, reduce risk and develop solutions and strategies. Sales Support: • Support the RFP response and pursuit process for Consulting work. Team Leadership: • Assist in the recruitment, development, and management of a diverse, remote team of consultants supporting Workday applications. • Promote a team-oriented, challenging and innovative work environment. • Lead and manage Senior Managers and/or Managing Consultants to ensure consultants are adhering to the activities, processes and procedures outlined in Workday and the Cynergy Implementation Methodology. • Drive team and individuals to achieve high customer satisfaction levels. • Ability to establish immediate credibility with clients and within the company; can build consensus and achieve goals through influence. • Ability to build trust-based relationship and identify and foster business development opportunities. People Development: • Perform role of mentor and coach. • Analyze team skills and provide for cross training to maintain teams’ ability to staff projects appropriately. • Advise management team on team members’ level of expertise and availability. Performance Management: • Establish direct reports’ goals and objectives during the bi-annual review process. • Direct the collection of performance feedback from customer and engagement/project manager on a quarterly basis or upon completion of project for your entire team. • Direct the collection of all internal contributions for team members assuring data is received by HR on a quarterly basis. • Drive bi-annual performance review process for the Consulting team. Duties & Tasks: Review estimates for sales opportunities. • Review SOWs for language and accuracy. • Attend Orals and prospect meetings. • Manage utilization to targets. • Monitor the sales pipeline to ensure accurate capacity planning for the team along with assigning resources to projects. • Schedule regular 1:1 meetings with direct and indirect reports. • Assess team member skills and maintain skills matrix. • Meet with team members bi-annually to provide performance and client satisfaction feedback Skills & Requirements: • Possess 10-12 years of Workday ideally focusing on Financials (or other ERP) Consulting implementation experience. • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent. • Proven experience leading a virtual team for 5 years. • Required characteristics: fast learner, detail oriented, decisive, and enjoy fast paced work environments. • Must work well within and across teams to get things accomplished. • Possess sales engagement experience estimating and presenting to prospects. #LI-Remote 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. Cognizant (Nasdaq-100: CTSH) engineers modern businesses. As one of the world’s leading professional services companies, we help our clients modernize technology, reimagine processes and transform experiences so they can stay ahead in our fast changing world. Together, we’re improving everyday life. Founded in 1994 as a technology development arm of The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation, we were spun off as an independent company in 1996, and have worked closely with large organizations to help them build stronger businesses ever since. Today, Cognizant engineers modern businesses to improve everyday life, helping some of the world’s most established companies remain the most loved brands. In today’s fast-changing technology landscape, we work with our clients to advance every aspect of how they serve their customers: digitizing their products, services and customer experiences; automating their business processes; and modernizing their technology infrastructures. Cognizant’s Workday practice was formed in 2020 through the acquisition of Collaborative Solutions, a leading global finance and HR transformation consultancy. Our 1,700 experts provide full lifecycle services—advisory, deployment, and post-production—using our proven, proprietary tools. 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