Workday Consultant

Management Level

Manager

Job Description & Summary

At PwC, our people in business application consulting specialise in consulting services for a variety of business applications, helping clients optimise operational efficiency. These individuals analyse client needs, implement software solutions, and provide training and support for seamless integration and utilisation of business applications, enabling clients to achieve their strategic objectives.

As a business application consulting generalist at PwC, you will provide consulting services for a wide range of business applications. You will leverage a broad understanding of various software solutions to assist clients in optimising operational efficiency through analysis, implementation, training, and support.

Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team member’s unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same.

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system.
• Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion.
• Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables.
• Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same.
• Effectively mentor others.
• Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members.
• Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate.
• Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.

About PwC SATIC and the role

South African Technology & Innovation Centre (SATIC) is the latest part of PwC, a global brand delivering services for the biggest clients in the world. PwC leads the way in human led, technology enabled professional services, working with clients to transform their business and make it fit for the future.

We are looking for candidates who bring in-depth market experience, who see technology as a way to enable and drive human innovation and who want to be a part of a community of solvers, to tackle the biggest challenges in society. If you are looking for a career where every day is different, where challenges are complex and where you can make a real difference, then we want to hear from you. By choosing to join SATIC, you are choosing to work with teams all over the world, harnessing the power of world leading tech and making a difference to real people's lives.

Summary:

This role supports and sometimes leads Integration workstreams on client Workday implementations, contributing across the full lifecycle from design to deployment. Working under the guidance of Managers and Senior Managers, this role configures integrations, participates in requirements workshops, and helps translate business needs into robust, scalable system designs. The Senior Associate assists with managing ticket queues and executing unit, end-to-end, and regression testing, ensuring quality and adherence to project timelines.

Qualifications /Certifications required:

· Integrations Systems experience (i.e. SAP or Oracle).

· Workday HCM Core Services Certification or Workday HCM Pro preferred.

Experience required:

· 4+ years

Responsibilities of role:

· Contributing to and/or leading our client facing Workday projects, from design through to deployment, as part a project team

· Configuring integrations.

· Conducting working sessions to gather and analyse business requirements; translate into scalable configuration designs and managing ticket queues

· Understanding of HCM information process flows to ensure scalable and efficient solutions

· Leading unit, end to end and regression testing

Desirable skill sets include:

· A background in Human Capital or IT related fields

· Ability to understand E2E HCM business processes and gather data requirements to support the data migration process flows

· Good communication and presentation skills · Open-minded seeking for innovative solutions

· Self-Starter Attitude

· Collaborating with your colleagues across our HR and HCM transformation teams, and wider PwC network to identify and create solutions that bring value to our clients

Travel Requirements

Up to 20%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Job Posting End Date

January 30, 2027