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Workday Data Lead
Workday Data Lead-March 2024
Wellington
Mar 28, 2026
About Workday Data Lead

  Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organisations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent and innovation led company with 738,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Accenture Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients succeed and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

  Visit us at www.accenture.com.

  As a member of one of the world’s largest Workday-certified teams, you’ll be part of a team of advisory professionals who deliver more than just technology. You’ll deliver HR and financial management solutions that help organizations realize the Workday promise of integrated, cloud-based capabilities that put them on the fast track to a better way to work.

  Grow your career with leading-edge technologies, continuous learning opportunities and a global community with deep industry expertise that help to solve clients’ biggest challenges.

  Now is the perfect time for you to join the Accenture DayNine Workday team, where you’ll:

  Assess, strategize and manage Workday deployments for organizations across the globe. Accenture has worked with more than 600 clients to deliver Workday deployments to unlock the potential of their organizations.

  Design and deliver future-ready Workday solutions to help organizations optimize their HR and Finance functions and enhance their employees’ experiences.

  Join more than 1,200 professionals certified in Workday, collaborating to drive enterprise-wide transformational projects on a global scale.

  Expand your Workday skills and advance your career with unparalleled training and professional development opportunities.

  Key Responsibilities:

  As a Workday Consultant, you should expect to lead small to medium sized Workday Data Conversion effort and have the following responsibilities:

  Lead a small team of one other Data Consulants on one or more project teams

  Serve as the primary knowledge source for 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

  Lead in the validation of data loaded into Workday

  Responsible for assisting clients in mapping legacy data, identifying data quality issues and overall responsibility over conversion activates 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

  Lead the identification of process improvements and changes to our methodology based on project experience

  Basic Qualifications:

  2+ years’ previous consulting experience or congruent professional experience either as an internal consultant 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

  Ability and willingness to travel up to 80%

  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

  Excellent communication (both written and oral) effectiveness with project leadership

  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. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with teammates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.

  NZ Working Rights

  Preference will go to candidates based in New Zealand with current Working Rights.

  Visa Sponsorship Transfer may be considered for candidates already based in New Zealand.

  Equal Employment Opportunity Statement for New Zealand: 

  At Accenture, we recognise that our people are multi-dimensional, and we create a work environment where all people feel like they can bring their authentic selves to work, every day.

  Our unwavering commitment to inclusion and diversity unleashes innovation and creates a culture where everyone feels they have equal opportunity. Our range of progressive policies support flexibility in ‘where’, ‘when’ and ‘how’ our people work to ensure that Accenture is an organisation where you can strive for more, achieve great things and maintain the balance and wellbeing you need.

  We encourage applications from all people, and we are committed to removing barriers to the recruitment process and employee lifecycle. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, religion or sexual orientation and we do not tolerate discrimination. If you require adjustments to the recruitment process, or have a preferred communication method, please email [email protected] and cite the relevant Job Number or contact us on +64 44666056.

  To ensure our workplace is inclusive and diverse we are setting bold goals and taking comprehensive action. To achieve these goals, we collect information that allows us to track the effectiveness of our Inclusion and Diversity programs. Learn how Accenture protects your personal data and know your rights in relation to your personal data. Read more about our Privacy Statement. (https://www.accenture.com/nz-en/careers/life-at-accenture/privacy-policy)

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