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Senior Consultant – Technical Specialist (Workday Financials)

United States

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

Build, test, deploy, and support Workday integrations, custom reports, and data transformations based on approved technical designs and specifications. The Senior Consultant is a hands-on technical delivery resource across integration development, testing, troubleshooting, and data conversion support.

What You’ll Do

  • Integration Build: Develop integrations using EIB, Core Connectors, Document Transformation, Workday Studio, Workday Web Services, and APIs based on approved technical specifications.
  • Technical Requirements & Design Support: Participate in discovery and technical design sessions, document interface requirements, data mappings, dependencies, and technical decisions.
  • Data Transformation: Develop and maintain XML/XSLT transformations, validation logic, error handling, and file-format conversions required by integrations.
  • Technical Testing: Conduct unit and integration testing, troubleshoot transmission and authentication failures, resolve data-formatting issues, and support defect remediation.
  • Data Loading: Support functional teams during conversion cycles by preparing and executing technical loads, validating results, and troubleshooting load failures.
  • Reporting: Build and support Workday reports and calculated fields required for integrations, reconciliation, operational reporting, and downstream data consumption.
  • Documentation & Deployment: Maintain technical specifications, mappings, test evidence, deployment steps, and support documentation; assist with cutover and production validation.
  • Team Collaboration: Work closely with technical leads, functional teams, client technology resources, and third-party vendors to resolve integration dependencies and delivery issues.

Required Experience & Qualifications

  • 3–5 years of technical Workday development experience.
  • Hands-on experience with EIB, Core Connectors, Workday Studio, Workday Web Services, XML, XSLT, and API mechanics.
  • Strong understanding of integration testing, troubleshooting, error handling, and data validation.
  • Ability to interpret technical specifications and independently execute assigned development tasks.

Workday Certifications

  • Active Workday Creating and Securing Integrations, Workday Studio, and Workday Reporting certifications.
  • Additional platform, Extend, security, or reporting certifications are valued.

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 

There are a wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to - skill sets, experience and training, and licensure and certifications. A reasonable estimate of the salary range is $100,000 – $130,000 USD, subject to change based on salary benchmarking. In addition to this salary, candidates will be eligible for a variable bonus.

 

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