Luke Willoughby
Johnson City,TN
Summary
Results-driven Workday Financials Consultant with experience leading complex system implementations across healthcare, higher education, and non-profit organizations. Expertise includes Payroll Accounting, Expenses, Customer Accounts, Endowment Accounting, and Grants support, with a focus on translating business requirements into scalable, efficient financial solutions. Additional experience includes RFP participation, pre-sales support, and development of strategic sales collateral for emerging markets.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Workday Consulting Associate
Huron Consulting Group Inc.
Chicago, IL
01.2026 - Current
- Led Workday Customer Accounts workstream for non-profit research laboratory, managing customer billing, accounts configuration, settlement processes, reporting, testing, and financial integrations to enhance receivables management and financial operations.
- Led Workday Endowment Accounting workstream for an Ivy League institution, managing endowment-specific accounting configuration, investment and donor fund reporting requirements, testing strategy, reconciliation activities, and collaboration with finance leadership to align Workday functionality with higher education fund accounting standards.
- Supported Workday Grants implementation for cancer research institute, assisting with grant lifecycle configuration, award and billing processes, reporting validation, testing coordination, and collaboration with finance and research administration stakeholders to ensure compliant grant management and accurate sponsored project accounting.
Workday Consulting Senior Analyst
Huron Consulting Group Inc.
Chicago, IL
01.2024 - 12.2025
- Led Workday Payroll Accounting design and implementation activities for a Midwest healthcare system with 15,000+ employees, including payroll posting configuration, balancing and reconciliation processes, accounting mapping validation, testing coordination, and cross-functional collaboration with Payroll, Finance, and HR stakeholders to support accurate financial reporting and operational readiness.
- Led Workday Expenses Lead for a higher education consortium encompassing five universities, overseeing expense report configuration, spend authorization processes, business process optimization, policy alignment, testing execution, and stakeholder training to support scalable and compliant expense management operations across multiple institutions.
- Led Workday Expenses implementation efforts for a non-profit research laboratory by configuring expense-related business processes, auditing controls, spend categories, and reporting solutions while partnering with Finance and operational teams to improve user experience, compliance, and reimbursement efficiency.
Digital Consulting Analyst
Huron Consulting Group Inc.
Chicago, IL
06.2022 - 12.2023
- Supported financial consulting engagements and internal strategic initiatives by leveraging Oracle technologies and data analysis to improve compliance processes, optimize system functionality, enhance reporting accuracy, troubleshoot complex issues, and contribute to enterprise-wide financial systems integrations for clients.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Mathematics
East Tennessee State University
Johnson City, TN05-2021
Skills
Financial Reporting
Compliance Management
Digital Transformation
Customer Accounts
Expenses
Endowment Accounting
Grants Management
Payroll Accounting
Certification
- Workday Pro Record to Report Services Certification
- Workday Expenses Services Certification
- Workday Financial Management Data Loading Services Certification
- Workday Higher Education and Government Payroll Accounting for Administrators
- Oracle Financial Crime and Compliance Management (FCCM) Solution Engineer Specialist
- Oracle Machine Learning using Autonomous Database 2023 Certified Associate
- Oracle Cloud Data Management 2023 Foundations Associate
Timeline
Workday Consulting Associate
Huron Consulting Group Inc.
01.2026 - Current
Workday Consulting Senior Analyst
Huron Consulting Group Inc.
01.2024 - 12.2025
Digital Consulting Analyst
Huron Consulting Group Inc.
06.2022 - 12.2023
Bachelor of Science - Mathematics
East Tennessee State University