Workday Financial Reporting & Data Strategy Lead Consultant

Cognizant; Australia; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Workday Financial Reporting & Data Strategy Principal Consultant in Australia to design and optimize complex Workday reports, dashboards, and analytics. You will lead the analytics solutions, collaborating with stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable designs and ensuring robust post-go-live support.

The role requires hands-on Workday Reporting expertise, post-production support experience, and strong consulting and stakeholder management skills.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience with Workday Reporting and Analytics, including complex fields, dashboards, and BIRT.
• Experience supporting Workday Financials.
• Proven leadership delivering reporting or analytics for enterprise ERP platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, enhancement, and support of complex Workday reports, dashboards, and analytics.
• Serve as subject matter expert in Workday Finance Reporting, advising clients on best practices and scalable design.
• Translate business requirements into effective analytics solutions through direct collaboration with functional and technical stakeholders.
• Support post go-live environments by resolving issues, delivering enhancements, and managing ongoing reporting needs.
• Assess design options, risks, and downstream impacts, providing clear recommendations aligned to Workday capabilities.
• Mentor consultants and contribute to knowledge sharing to strengthen the Reporting and Analytics practice.
• Support solutioning and proposal development for new and expanding engagements.
• Guide clients through the data extract and cleansing process, including loading customer data, moving configuration from tenant to tenant, and configuring business processes and security
• Use Workday tools of iLoad, EIB, Object Transporter, Advanced Load, and Migration Recipe to do load data and execute tenant to tenant migrations

Skills

Workday Reporting

Analytics

Calculated Fields

Dashboards

BIRT

Stakeholder Management

Excel

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Workday Certification in Finance and Advanced Reporting

Tools

iLoad

EIB

Object Transporter

Advanced Load

Migration Recipe

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Workday Financial Reporting & Data Strategy Principal Consultant in Australia to design and optimize complex Workday reports, dashboards, and analytics. You will lead the analytics solutions, collaborating with stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable designs and ensuring robust post-go-live support.

The role requires hands-on Workday Reporting expertise, post-production support experience, and strong consulting and stakeholder management skills.