Kognitiv Inc.

Manager

• Manage a portfolio of clients, including scoping, resourcing, planning, budgeting, and managing deliverables, contracts, and timelines for clients' projects.
• Provide guidance, instruction, direction, and coaching to team members to ensure projects are executed timely and with quality.
• Ensure a strong relationship is built with clients; ensure clients see Kognitiv as a valuable partner to their business.
• Measure, support, and address client satisfaction; ensure escalations are addressed and mitigated in a timely manner.
• Ensure proper communication with leadership on all escalations.
• Implement and configure Workday solutions for a global customer base.
• Design, configure, test, and deploy business requirements across multiple Workday HCM module(s) while remaining agile and flexible to clients' changing needs.
• Assist management in monitoring and evaluating consultants' performance, providing feedback, facilitating training and development, and driving retention and engagement within the team.
• Contribute to the organization's knowledge management repository through formal and informal avenues (ex: Q&A, documented deliverables, facilitation of Workday knowledge sharing sessions, regularly posting best practices, etc).
• Act as a mentor and coach for less experienced team members.
• Meet key performance indicators set for this role (ex: utilization target, service level agreements, customer satisfaction scores, etc).
• Work in a fast-paced environment that requires tasks to be completed quickly and accurately.
• Demonstrate Kognitiv's core value, "act like an owner", in all aspects of work.

Associate Workday HCM Manager

Consultant

• Implement and configure Workday solutions for a global customer base
• Conduct working sessions with clients to gather, understand, and analyze business requirements
• Advise clients on best practices, recognize, and recommend process improvements
• Manage the project scope, quality, and timeline for area(s) of expertise
• Perform research on problems, identify the true cause, and present/implement corrective measures to the client

Senior/Principal Consultant – Benefits

Architect

• Lead the implementation and configuration of global Workday solutions.
• Conduct interactive sessions with clients to identify and fulfill their needs.
• Manage project scope, quality, and timelines to deliver excellence.
• Serve as the client’s voice providing third-party perspective.
• Troubleshoot issues when they arise and mentor less experienced consultants.

Workday Implementation/Advisory Architect

Payroll

• Act as a strategic partner to global clients
• Design, configure, and troubleshoot Workday Payroll module
• Manage multiple concurrent projects with high autonomy

Workday Payroll Consultant

Accounting Manager

• Leads, develops, and performance-manages a team of accountants/analysts while fostering an ownership mindset to produce timely and accurate financial reports.
• Owns end-to-end accounting processes (AP, AR, general ledger, month-end close, reconciliations, financial reporting) across global entities, ensuring compliance with GAAP/IFRS and internal controls.
• Primary liaison between the organization and external auditors, preparing necessary documentation and managing the audit process.
• Drives process improvements, automations, and cross-functional initiatives to enhance efficiency and scalability.
• Provides strategic insights, mentors team members, and influences stakeholders on accounting matters in a remote/global setting.
• Oversees multi-entity consolidations, tax compliance support, and ad-hoc projects.

Implementation Specialist

• Design, configure, test, and execute client business requirements within Workday Advisory areas
• Conduct collaborative sessions with clients
• Assess client needs, propose recommendations, and offer alternative solutions
• Troubleshoot various aspects such as business processes and configuration
• Provide guidance and mentorship to team members
• Cultivate a deep understanding of Workday's deployment methodology.

Workday Payroll Implementation Consultant – Advisory

Project Manager

• Lead multiple, concurrent Workday projects for a global customer base.
• Manage the project scope, quality, resources, and timeline to ensure projects are successfully delivered to plan on time and within budget.
• Monitor and communicate project status, milestones, and overall performance to stakeholders.
• Own, create and maintain documentation (status reports, RAID logs, dashboards, project plans, etc) to track performance.
• Identify risks and issues within the project plan, communicate risks to stakeholders and internal management, and drive initiatives to mitigate/resolve risks within a timeline manner.
• Escalate performance concerns to internal management as applicable.
• Ensure Testing Phase is managed appropriately according to Kognitiv's Methodology; leverage best practices to guide formulation of Test Strategy, report on testing outcomes, and drive efficient issue identification and resolution.
• Manage, guide, motivate and facilitate collaboration for project teams.
• Set a clear vision, expectations, goals, and milestones for the project.
• Lead retrospectives and incorporate lessons learned into new approaches which drive projects’ success.
• Manage changes to project scope, schedule, budget, and roles & responsibilities.
• Partner with management to ensure appropriate resources and tools are assigned according to the project plan.
• Assist clients and management with the evaluation and development of project plans.
• Assist in sales engagements when applicable, including scoping projects, estimating level of effort and timeline.
• Contribute to knowledge management repository through formal and informal avenues, such as sharing documented lessons learned, Q&A, documented deliverables, facilitation of Workday knowledge sharing sessions, regularly posting best practices and knowledge sharing information to team(s) and mentoring and training junior team members.