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    Workday Grants Manager - Chicago, United States - Huron Consulting Group

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    Description
    Huron is a global consultancy that collaborates with clients to drive strategic growth, ignite innovation and navigate constant change.

    Through a combination of strategy, expertise and creativity, we help clients accelerate operational, digital and cultural transformation, enabling the change they need to own their future.

    Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.
    Position Summary

    The multi-faceted role you've been looking for... Managers play a vibrant, integral role at Huron. Their invaluable knowledge reflects in the projects they manage and the teams they lead.

    Known for being politically savvy, they build long-standing relationships with clients, while collaborating with colleagues to solve their most important challenges.

    They plan, shape and deliver technology solutions that deliver results and seamlessly align with client goals, visions and missions.

    Remarkably versatile, our Managers also spend significant time mentoring junior staff on the engagement team—where they tirelessly share expertise as well as feedback and encouragement.

    This benefits Huron profoundly as it promotes a culture of respect, unity, collaboration and personal achievement.

    The Opportunity

    Huron is a global consultancy that collaborates with clients to drive strategic growth, ignite innovation and navigate constant change.

    Through a combination of strategy, expertise and creativity, we help clients accelerate operational, digital and cultural transformation, enabling the change they need to own their future.

    Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.
    Position Summary

    The multi-faceted role you've been looking for... Managers play a vibrant, integral role at Huron. Their invaluable knowledge reflects in the projects they manage and the teams they lead.

    Known for being politically savvy, they build long-standing relationships with clients, while collaborating with colleagues to solve their most important challenges.

    They plan, shape and deliver technology solutions that deliver results and seamlessly align with client goals, visions and missions.

    Remarkably versatile, our Managers also spend significant time mentoring junior staff on the engagement team—where they tirelessly share expertise as well as feedback and encouragement.

    This benefits Huron profoundly as it promotes a culture of respect, unity, collaboration and personal achievement.

    Our environment inspires and rewards growth...

    As a Manager, you have the unique ability to specialize in certain areas of enterprise software products that showcase and employ your areas of expertise while pursuing your "career vision".

    Huron is big enough to offer the opportunity and exposure you need for your career growth—but small enough to give you individual attention for your professional development.

    Every Manager adds to who we are as an organization—and the more you evolve, the more we do.

    An exciting career experience awaits you where you'll be challenged to discover your true potential:
    It's analytically rigorous... it's practical... it's entrepreneurial... it's intellectually stimulating—and most definitely—it's career-defining. It's the Huron way.

    We see what's possible in you and help you achieve it.

    Qualifications


    Qualifications:
    Bachelor's or Master's degree in a field related to this position or equivalent work experience
    5-7 years of related experience with cloud implementations in a consulting role
    End-to-end project implementation experience in one or more of the following areas: Cloud ERP, EPM, or CRM offerings
    Experience as a functional application specialist
    Excellent communication skills – oral and written – and the interpersonal skills needed to quickly establish relationships of trust and collaboration
    The ability to train and participate in the professional development of Huron staff in both project management and technical dimensions
    Proven ability to contribute on multiple projects of differing scale and duration
    Willingness to travel up to 50% as needed to work with client or other internal project teams
    Qualifications


    Required:
    2+ years proven prior success in roles directly implementing Workday, Oracle/PeopleSoft, Lawson or SAP Financials
    2+ years proven prior success in roles directly implementing or supporting Workday or Oracle/PeopleSoft Grants Management
    Huron requires a Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience
    Post-Pandemic willingness to travel up to 50%

    Preferred Skills & Experience:
    Certification or equivalent practical experience in Workday Grants Management
    At least 1-2 full life cycle implementations with Workday Grants is a must.
    Experience leading Workday Grants Management design and customer confirmation sessions
    Experience configuring all aspects of Workday Grants Management and the related Customer Accounts functionality
    Experience configuring or a deep understanding of Workday Payroll Accounting and Effort Certification
    Experience designing complex post-award reports and/or development of said reports
    Excellent communication skills - oral and written - and the interpersonal skills needed quickly to establish relationships of trust and collaboration
    Ability to establish credibility in the eyes of senior-level, financially literate university and hospital executives, including those that lead the sponsored research functions, on the basis of expertise, maturity, and professionalism
    Excellent time-management and prioritization skills
    Strong analytical skills used to translate information from meetings into documentation that can be shared with meeting participants and project teams
    Desire and willingness to learn new tools, techniques, concepts, and methodologies
    Practical experience with post-award grant management and/or the sponsored research industry a plus
    The estimated base salary range for this job is $130,000 - $170,000.

    The range represents a good faith estimate of the range that Huron reasonably expects to pay for this job at the time of the job posting.

    The actual salary paid to an individual will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to specific skills or certifications, years of experience, market changes, and required travel.

    This job is also eligible to participate in Huron's annual incentive compensation program, which reflects Huron's pay for performance philosophy.

    Inclusive of annual incentive compensation opportunity, the total estimated compensation range for this job is $149,500 - $214,000.

    The job is also eligible to participate in Huron's benefit plans which include medical, dental and vision coverage and other wellness programs.

    The salary range information provided is in accordance with applicable state and local laws regarding salary transparency that are currently in effect and may be implemented in the future.

    Posting Category

    Generalist

    Opportunity Type

    Regular

    Country

    United States of America
    About Us

    At Huron, we're redefining what a consulting organization can be. We go beyond advice to deliver results that last. We inherit our client's challenges as if they were our own. We help them transform for the future. We advocate. We make a difference. And we intelligently, passionately, relentlessly do great work...together.


    Are you the kind of person who stands ready to jump in, roll up your sleeves and transform ideas into action? Then come discover Huron.


    Whether you have years of experience or come right out of college, we invite you to explore our many opportunities.

    Find out how you can use your talents and develop your skills to make an impact immediately.

    Learn about how our culture and values provide you with the kind of environment that invites new ideas and innovation.

    Come see how we collaborate with each other in a culture of learning, coaching, diversity and inclusion. And hear about our unwavering commitment to make a difference in partnership with our clients, shareholders, communities and colleagues.


    Huron Consulting Group offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage to employees and dependents; a 401(k) plan with a generous employer match; an employee stock purchase plan; a generous Paid Time Off policy; and paid parental leave and adoption assistance.

    Our Wellness Program supports employee total well-being by providing free annual health screenings and coaching, bank at work, and on-site workshops, as well as ongoing programs recognizing major events in the lives of our employees throughout the year.

    All benefits and programs are subject to applicable eligibility requirements.


    Huron is fully committed to providing equal employment opportunity to job applicants and employees in recruitment, hiring, employment, compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, training, and all other terms and conditions of employment.

    Huron will not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, religion, veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, creed, citizenship or any other status protected by laws or regulations in the locations where we do business.

    We endeavor to maintain a drug-free workplace.

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