Workday Financials Consultant
Cognizant
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
- 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