Senior Consultant – Functional Specialist (Workday Financials)
Job Description
<p><strong>About Alpha Alternatives</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p><strong>Our core solution areas include:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)</li> <li>Business Spend Management and Accounts Payable</li> <li>Travel & Expense Management</li> <li>Expense Allocation and Chargebacks</li> <li>Budgeting & Planning</li> <li>HRIS Platforms</li> <li>Treasury Management Systems</li> </ul> <p><strong>Our services span the transformation lifecycle, including:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Target Operating Model Design</li> <li>Process Redesign and Optimization</li> <li>Policy Development and Governance</li> <li>Technical Architecture and Integration Strategy</li> <li>System Evaluation and Selection</li> <li>Program and Project Management</li> <li>System Implementation</li> <li>Managed Services and Staff Augmentation</li> <li>AI Enablement</li> </ul> <p>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.</p> <p><strong>The Workday Practice</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p><strong>The Role</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Hands-on Configuration: </strong>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.</li> <li><strong>Discovery & Design Support: </strong>Participate in discovery and design workshops, document requirements and decisions, and support functional leads in translating requirements into configuration.</li> <li><strong>Testing & Defect Resolution: </strong>Execute unit and system testing, identify system gaps, document issues, troubleshoot configuration defects, and support resolution through retesting.</li> <li><strong>Data Conve