Workday FSI Financials Solution Architect

As a Workday FSI Financials Solution Architect at Kainos, you own the end-to-end finance solution design for financial services and insurance clients. You translate sector needs into architecture, data, processes and systems while guiding delivery and governance. You will shape reusable assets, reference designs, and coach teams to raise sector capability. This role blends client engagements with design leadership to drive impactful finance transformations. Join a collaborative, people-first culture and shape our Workday capabilities at scale.

• Lead discovery and Phase 0 efforts to produce target architecture, decisions, options, and a phased roadmap
• Own end-to-end Financials design including R2R, FDM, COA, work Tags, multi-entity/multi-currency, intercompany and reporting
• Define how Workday Financials, Prism Analytics and Accounting Center integrate with other platforms and tools
• Translate sector requirements into practical design choices for insurance flows and related reporting dimensions
• Establish design governance across functional, data, integration, reporting and security teams
• Guide delivery from design through testing, cutover and stabilisation, validating configurations and reconciliations
• Support go-to-market and account teams with discovery, demonstrations, proposals and estimates
• Develop sector reference architectures, decision guides and accelerators; set quality standards for model-tenant scenarios
• Coach lead consultants and architects; review solution quality and capture delivery lessons
• Assess Workday releases and automation opportunities with specialists

• Substantial Workday Financials experience across multiple deployments
• Deep knowledge of FDM, financial accounting and reporting, with breadth across procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, banking & settlement, assets
• Direct finance transformation or delivery experience in at least one FSI subsector
• Strong accounting fundamentals and multi-entity/multi-currency reporting
• Ability to assess Prism Analytics and Accounting Center applicability and define requirements with delivery teams
• Experience evaluating integration, migration, security and reporting dependencies
• Experience leading senior customer workshops and documenting decisions with clear commercial implications
• Experience coaching consultants and reviewing delivery quality
• Relevant Workday Financials certification; commitment to maintaining certifications
• Desirable: insurance domain depth, Prism Analytics or Accounting Center hands-on delivery, professional accounting qualifications

• strong decision-making under uncertainty
• customer workshop leadership
• clear communication of trade-offs and risks
• Workday Financials
• FDM (Foundation Data Model)
• Prism Analytics