Workday Senior Consultant - Finance

Job Description

We are seeking a highly experienced Workday Finance Functional Lead to drive large-scale, end-to-end Workday Financials implementations. In this client-facing leadership role, you will be responsible for complex solution design, configuration, and delivery across global deployments. You will act as a trusted advisor, bridging technical capabilities with financial business processes.

Key Responsibilities

Lead End-to-End Implementations: Act as the Lead Functional consultant on 2+ large enterprise end-to-end Workday Financials implementations, owning hands-on design, solutioning, configuration, and testing.
Spend Management Core Finance: Drive requirements and configuration across P2P (Procure to Pay), GL cycles with deep expertise in: Supplier Accounts/Contracts, Procurement, Financials, AP, Fixed Assets, Banking Settlement, Inventory, and Integration with other applications.
Global Multi-Country Deployments: Manage complex deployments involving localization requirements (tax, legal, regulatory) across multiple countries.
Strategic Problem Solving: Identify strategies, alternatives, approaches, risks, and mitigations to meet business requirements. Assist in testing and resolving complex issues.
Methodology Continuous Improvement: Develop and refine delivery methodologies, contributing to continuous improvements in implementation practices.
Pre-Sales Estimation: Support pre-sales activities, including accurately estimating scope, effort, and resources required to complete projects.

Required Technical Professional Experience

Implementation Leadership: Must have acted as Lead on 2 or more Large Enterprise End-to-End Workday Financials implementations with hands-on design, configuration, and testing experience.
Core Spend Areas: Proven experience in Spend (Financial, AP, Fixed Asset) and integrations with other applications, specifically:
Supplier Accounts / Contracts
Procurement
FDM (Financial Data Model)
Business Assets
Banking Settlement
Inventory
Global Deployments: Demonstrated experience with global/multi-country deployments, including localization requirements.
Risk Testing: Ability to identify strategies, alternatives, risks, mitigations, and lead testing/issue resolution.
Methodology Pre-Sales: Experience in developing delivery improvements and supporting pre-sales activities (scope/effort/resource estimation).

Preferred Technical Professional Experience

Financial Procurement Roles: Background in financial accounting and procurement roles
Additional Workday Areas: Experience in FDM, Financial Accounting, Budgets, Reporting, Banking, Taxes, Supplier Accounts/Contracts, Procurement, Business Assets, Inventory.
Data Reporting: Hands-on Workday data conversion (EIB, iLoads) and/or report development experience.

Certifications ( Mandatory ):
Workday Certified (Financial Core, Financial Services Practical Essentials, or Workday P2P)
Workday Financial iLoad practical experience
Workday Financial Reporting

Primary Secondary Skillsets

Primary Skillset:

Workday Finance (Core)
P2P (Procure to Pay)

Secondary Skillset:

Budgets, Reporting
Banking, Taxes, Supplier Accounts/Contracts
Procurement, Business Assets, Inventory