Senior Workday Finance Architect - Remote

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Sydney; Remote; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Entrepreneurial environment

Global opportunities

Affinity groups

Learning opportunities

Volunteer programs

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a senior Workday Finance Functional Architect to design and deliver end-to-end Workday Financial Management solutions across multi-entity organisations. The role combines architecture leadership, data modelling, and executive stakeholder engagement to ensure scalable, compliant outcomes.

You will lead design discussions, govern the Financial Data Model, and provide guidance across delivery teams, ensuring alignment with Workday best practices and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or related discipline.
• 10+ years Finance transformation, ERP implementations, or FP&A/Controllership roles.
• 6+ years implementing Workday Financial Management across multiple industries.
• Proven experience designing complex, multi-entity, multi-ledger Workday Finance solutions.
• Experience across end-to-end finance processes.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end Workday Finance solution architecture across modules and integrations.
• Design and govern the Financial Data Model (FDM), including worktags, hierarchies, ledgers, balancing worktags, and reporting structures.
• Provide a holistic solution view, covering Workday best practices, industry standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Act as trusted advisor to CFOs, Finance Directors, Controllers, and Transformation Leads; lead executive design discussions.
• Translate complex business requirements into practical, scalable Workday solutions.
• Guide clients through design decisions with a long-term lens on operability and future roadmap.
• Provide functional design governance across one or more Workday Finance workstreams.
• Review and validate solution designs for architectural integrity.
• Identify cross-module dependencies and risks and drive mitigation strategies.
• Support complex problem-solving scenarios across integrations, accounting treatments, and reporting outcomes.
• Delivery assurance role on high-risk engagements where required.
• Shape solution options and implementation strategies in pre-sales; articulate value-based solutions.
• Contribute to practice assets, standards, and reusable patterns.

Skills

Workday Finance

Solution architecture

Financial data modeling

Stakeholder engagement

Pre-sales experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance/Accounting/Business

Tools

Workday

ERP implementations

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a senior Workday Finance Functional Architect to design and deliver end-to-end Workday Financial Management solutions across multi-entity organisations. The role combines architecture leadership, data modelling, and executive stakeholder engagement to ensure scalable, compliant outcomes.

You will lead design discussions, govern the Financial Data Model, and provide guidance across delivery teams, ensuring alignment with Workday best practices and regulatory requirements.