Senior Consultant - Workday Adaptive Planning

Job Description

At EisnerAmper, we look for individuals who welcome new ideas, encourage innovation, and are eager to make an impact. Whether you’re starting out in your career or taking your next step as a seasoned professional, the EisnerAmper experience is one-of-a-kind. You can design a career you’ll love from top to bottom – we give you the tools you need to succeed and the autonomy to reach your goals.  

We are seeking a self-starter, results-driven, client-focused individual to join our team to empower finance and business leaders with critical insights to plan smarter, report faster, and analyze better.  This person will be responsible for the implementation and optimization of Workday Adaptive Planning. We do operate in a hybrid work environment.

What it Means to Work for EisnerAmper:

• You will get to be part of one of the largest and fastest growing accounting and advisory firms in the industry 
• You will have the flexibility to manage your days in support of our commitment to work/life balance 
• You will join a culture that has received multiple top “Places to Work” awards 
• We believe that great work is accomplished when cultures, ideas and experiences come together to create new solutions  
• We understand that embracing our differences is what unites us as a team and strengthens our foundation  
• Showing up authentically is how we, both as professionals and a Firm, find inspiration to do our best work  
• Numerous Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) to support our Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DE&I) efforts 

What Work You Will Be Responsible For:

• Implementing budgets, forecasts
• Create both starter and ad-hoc reporting within Adaptive Planning for Finance
• Configuring clients planning models into Adaptive Planning
• Provide client support (design, model, configuration, deployment, and training) for the Workday Adaptive Planning
• Maintain proficiency and certification in the Workday Adaptive Planning
• Assist client with data validation issues reconciling Trial Balance data, and other statistical end points
• Delivering a high level of professionalism and responsiveness to clients
• Meeting with clients regularly either via virtual or in-person meetings
• Contributing to team objectives via thought leadership and attending Workday Adaptive Planning related events

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance (CPA preferred)
• Minimum of 3+ years of relatable work experience
• 1+ year in professional services/ consulting
• Minimum of 1+ years of Workday Adaptive Planning full implementations

Preferred Or Desired Qualifications

• Minimum of one year experience providing professional services implementing/optimizing Workday Adaptive Planning is preferred
• Ability to demonstrate professionalism with above average client service and communication skills.
• Holder of Adaptive Planning Certification
• Qualified accountant (CPA) with strong industry experience
• Experience maintaining Workday Adaptive Planning Foundational Elements and Sheets
• Experience configuring Workday Adaptive Planning Web and Office Connect Reports
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
• Ability to learn, adapt to change and manage multiple priorities.
• Willingness to take initiative on projects in overall daily interactions with team members

About our Business Advisory Team:  

The EisnerAmper Business Advisory Group offers a wide array of services to an even broader range of businesses. Whether it’s dealing with bankruptcy and transactional disputes or executive compensation structures and health care management, our team thrives by marrying deep-rooted industry expertise with a culture of always embracing new perspectives and ideas.   

Our “startup mentality,” backed by the institutional knowledge and established reputation of the firm, enables us to be flexible and always test what can take our team and clients to the next level. Whether it’s a new internal process, digital platform, or service offering, we believe that innovative ideas come from all levels and every employee should have the opportunity to make an impact on the business, our clients, and their careers.   

To us, every sub-sector in our group functions as its own business—so we need to think like entrepreneurs ourselves, often putting on the shoes of our clients. It’s this mindset that allows us to grow as professionals and provide innovative solutions tailored to our clients’ unique needs.  

About EisnerAmper:

EisnerAmper is one of the largest accounting, tax, and business advisory firms, with approximately 450 partners and 4,500 employees across the world. We combine responsiveness with a long-range perspective; to help clients meet the pressing issues they face today and position them for success tomorrow.

Our clients are enterprises as diverse as sophisticated financial institutions and start-ups, global public firms, and middle-market companies, as well as high net worth individuals, family offices, not-for-profit organizations, and entrepreneurial ventures across a variety of industries. We are also engaged by the attorneys, financial professionals, bankers, and investors who serve these clients.

Should you need any accommodations to complete this application please email: [email protected].

Preferred Location:

Chicago