Senior Manager - Functional Delivery & Solution Lead (Workday Financials)

<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>Lead complex Workday Financials engagements, provide functional solution leadership, and translate sophisticated finance and accounting requirements into scalable Workday designs. The role combines executive client leadership, functional architecture, delivery oversight, team leadership, and hands-on understanding of Workday Financials.</p> <p><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Delivery Leadership: </strong>Own end-to-end functional delivery across complex Workday Financials engagements and serve as a senior escalation point for client stakeholders. Monitor delivery health, risks, dependencies, scope, quality, and key implementation milestones.</li> <li><strong>Discovery & Solution Design: </strong>Lead and participate in discovery workshops, design sessions, working groups, and solution reviews with CFOs, Controllers, finance teams, and project stakeholders. Translate business, accounting, control, and reporting requirements into clear functional requirements and Workday designs.</li> <li><strong>Functional Architecture: </strong>Translate high-