IT & Software

Workday Financials Consultant

Cognizant

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

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)

Reference: WJ-747_30814190

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