Senior Consultant – Functional Specialist (Workday Financials)

About Alpha Alternatives

Alpha Alternatives, part of Alpha Group, is a specialist consulting business serving the alternative investment industry. We work with leading private equity, private credit, real estate, infrastructure, venture capital, and diversified asset managers to address complex business and operational challenges through industry expertise, management consulting, technology, data, and transformation delivery.

Within Alpha Alternatives, the Management Company Operations (MCO) practice advises CFOs and finance leaders on driving meaningful organizational change through operational and technology transformation. We assess current-state operating models across people, process, data, and technology and partner with clients to design and implement scalable future-state solutions aligned with their business objectives.

Our core solution areas include:

• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
• Business Spend Management and Accounts Payable
• Travel & Expense Management
• Expense Allocation and Chargebacks
• Budgeting & Planning
• HRIS Platforms
• Treasury Management Systems

Our services span the transformation lifecycle, including:

• Target Operating Model Design
• Process Redesign and Optimization
• Policy Development and Governance
• Technical Architecture and Integration Strategy
• System Evaluation and Selection
• Program and Project Management
• System Implementation
• Managed Services and Staff Augmentation
• AI Enablement

We work across the private markets landscape, helping firms design and implement the operating infrastructure, technology, and capabilities required to support growth and increasing organizational complexity.

The Workday Practice

Alpha’s Workday Practice sits within MCO and specializes in Workday implementation, optimization, solution health assessments, release readiness, and Application Management Services (AMS). The practice works closely with Alpha’s broader advisory, data, and technology teams to translate business requirements into scalable Workday solutions and provide continuity from strategy and design through implementation and ongoing support.

The Role

Serve as a core functional delivery resource responsible for configuration, testing, data support, and documentation across assigned Workday Financials modules. The Senior Consultant works closely with functional leads and client teams to translate approved designs into a high-quality configured solution.

What You’ll Do

• Hands-on Configuration: Own day-to-day tenant configuration and business process setup within assigned modules such as General Ledger, Procure-to-Pay, Expenses, Projects, Billing, Accounting Center, or related Financials capabilities.
• Discovery & Design Support: Participate in discovery and design workshops, document requirements and decisions, and support functional leads in translating requirements into configuration.
• Testing & Defect Resolution: Execute unit and system testing, identify system gaps, document issues, troubleshoot configuration defects, and support resolution through retesting.
• Data Conversion: Prepare, map, validate, and load data using Workday-supported data-loading tools and templates; support reconciliation and conversion-cycle validation.
• Documentation: Develop configuration workbooks, design documentation, test scripts, process documentation, and other functional deliverables.
• Client Collaboration: Work directly with client SMEs and project teams to validate requirements, demonstrate configuration, support testing, and resolve day-to-day questions.
• Delivery Coordination: Manage assigned tasks and deadlines, raise risks and dependencies promptly, and coordinate with technical, data, reporting, and security resources.
• Continuous Development: Maintain current knowledge of Workday releases and module capabilities and contribute reusable configuration patterns and lessons learned.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• 3–5 years of hands-on Workday Financials configuration experience with at least two full-lifecycle deployments.
• Strong practical configuration, testing, data manipulation, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience in one or more Financials specialties such as General Ledger, Procure-to-Pay, Projects, Expenses, Billing, Accounting Center, or reporting.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to work effectively with functional leads and client stakeholders.

Workday Certifications

• Active Workday Financial Management / Financials Core certification.
• Relevant module specialty certifications such as Procure-to-Pay, Projects, Accounting Center, Expenses, or Reporting are preferred.

Location & Travel

This position is US-based and primarily remote. Occasional travel to client sites and Alpha offices may be required based on project needs, key implementation milestones, and team collaboration.

Compensation and Benefits 

• Learning and development: Vast opportunities to self-development, unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning
• Flexible working: Work-life balance with flexible schedule
• Community events: We offer a range of social events and meetups
• 25 days’ holiday in addition to public holidays
• Supplemented medical, dental and vision coverage
• 401(k) with employer match
• Wellness initiatives to promote healthy working, including an allowance for remote working technology
• Access to discounted travel, tickets, events, and more through our benefit partner