Major Customer Base Account Executive - oCFO

Financials Account Executive

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About the Role

As a Financials Account Executive, you will partner in business development, selling to prospective key accounts. Your recent success in selling cloud-based Financial applications and products to net new enterprise accounts is a strong sign you're an excellent prospect for this role. Role & Responsibilities:

• Ability to drive a complex sale, operate respectfully in a team selling environment, and have strong project management skills.
• Initiates and runs sales cycles, maximizing Workday Financial products suite including Accounting, Planning, and Expense Management.
• You will lead the sales process, negotiations, customer agreements, and closing plans with prospective enterprise accounts.
• You will use your experience and consultative selling skills to initiate long-standing relationships with prospective customers at the executive-level.
• You will use your extensive experience within Financials and ERP to help drive demand for Cloud Financial Management in the marketplace.
• You will employ your consultative selling skills to successfully position Workday as a viable alternative ERP Financial solution.
• Coordinates, collaborates, and provides direction to various extended team members and sales/services resources.

About You

Basic Qualifications:

• 8+ years of professional experience in software sales, including experience in a team selling environment.
• 8+ years of experience selling SaaS/Cloud based ERP, Financial, or Planning solutions to C-levels within enterprise accounts.
• 8+ years experience working with finance executives.

Other Qualifications:

• Deep financial product skills and confidence in developing relationships by conducting business-driven discussions with CFOs and their finance teams.
• Experience in business transformations in medium and large enterprises, preferably across multiple industries.
• Proven ability in owning and supporting complex sales cycles from start to finish.
• Demonstrated success with transformational and consultative selling, strategy and running sophisticated negotiations.
• Ability to quickly understand business challenges and create solutions.
• An appreciation of the responsibilities and challenges of the Finance function of today, with an interest in co-creating desired business solutions.
• You enjoy working as part of a team and contributing best practices to aid the success of all.
• We believe in a continuous learning mentality.
• Strong organization and communication skills to drive urgency in closing new business. Adept at maintaining accurate and timely customer, pipeline, and forecast data.