Workday Financials Consultant

Overview

In this role you lead the design, configuration, and delivery of Workday Financial Management solutions, guiding finance transformation for clients. You act as a trusted advisor, shaping scalable financial processes and aligning with Workday best practices. You’ll manage medium-to-large workstreams, mentor teams, and contribute to practice growth through knowledge sharing and pre-sales support. This is a hands-on, client-facing position that combines deep financial expertise with delivery leadership to impact finance operations.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a Workday Financials subject matter expert advising on finance transformation and best practices
• Lead client workshops and design sessions to define Workday Financial Management solutions
• Design and deliver Workday Financial Management solutions across R2R, P2P, and C2C
• Advise on finance operating models, processes, controls, compliance, and optimization
• Lead Financials workstreams on medium to large implementations, managing decisions, risks, and dependencies
• Collaborate with Reporting, Security, Integrations, Data, Change Management and Project Management teams
• Support testing, deployment, cutover, and post-go-live activities
• Mentor consultants and analysts, providing coaching and quality reviews
• Support business development including solutioning, estimations, proposals, and customer presentations
• Contribute to practice development through training, asset creation, and methodology enhancements
• Maintain expertise in Workday Financials functionality, industry trends, and product innovations

Key requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• Active Workday Financials Certification preferred
• 5+ years of Workday Financials implementation experience
• Proven experience leading Financials workstreams on end-to-end Workday implementations
• Deep functional expertise in one or more Workday Financial Management pillars: R2R, P2P, C2C
• Experience gathering requirements, facilitating workshops, solution design, configuration, testing, and deployment
• Experience supporting pre-sales activities including estimations, proposals, and solution presentations
• Strong consulting, stakeholder management, facilitation, and communication skills
• Ability to mentor team members and provide functional leadership across projects
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced consulting environment
• Eligible for UK SC Clearance and willing to travel on-site as needed

• strong communication and stakeholder management
• facilitation and coaching
• ability to work across cross-functional teams
• Workday Financial Management
• Record-to-Report (R2R)
• Procure-to-Pay (P2P)

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