Senior Workday Finance Consultant: Transformation Leader

BDO; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 84,000 - 128,000; Full time

Job summary

BDO Canada is seeking a Senior Consultant for the Workday practice to deliver end-to-end Workday implementations within Finance transformations. You will combine Workday functional expertise with consulting and delivery capabilities to help clients achieve measurable outcomes throughout their digital transformation journeys.

You will collaborate with cross-functional technology, data, integration, and change teams to design scalable Workday configurations aligned with client objectives, guiding

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience delivering enterprise finance technology or finance transformation initiatives, including multiple full lifecycle Workday Financial Management implementations.
• Active Workday certification in one or more Financial Management areas such as Procure to Pay, Contracts to Cash, Expense Services, Inventory Management, Adaptive Planning, and Adaptive Planning Integrations.
• Demonstrated experience leading a functional workstream, facilitating client workshops, managing deliverables, and supporting decisions with senior stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of implementation methods, requirements analysis, solution design, configuration, testing, deployment, and stabilization.
• Experience in a consulting or client-facing environment with a track record of building trusted relationships and delivering high-quality client service.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and structured thinking skills with ability to translate complex business scenarios into effective process designs and system configurations.
• Excellent facilitation, presentation, and written and verbal communication skills, with ability to explain technical concepts and influence stakeholders.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, work independently, collaborate across disciplines, and maintain quality in a deadline-driven project environment.
• Commercial awareness and experience contributing to estimates, proposals, demonstrations, or other business development activities are assets.
• Experience coaching or supporting the development of junior team members is an asset.
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience; a professional accounting designation is considered an asset

Responsibilities

• Lead functional workstreams on Workday implementation projects from discovery to post-go-live support.
• Build trusted relationships with client leaders and serve as a senior functional advisor with structured recommendations.
• Plan and facilitate design workshops with senior stakeholders to elicit requirements and drive decisions.
• Translate business requirements into scalable Workday configurations and document decisions and impacts.
• Manage workstream scope, priorities, deliverables, timelines, risks, issues, and dependencies with concise status reporting.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to support an integrated Workday solution.
• Lead system and user acceptance testing activities and manage defect resolution.
• Develop client-ready deliverables including process designs, configuration workbooks, decision logs, and training materials.
• Deliver knowledge transfer and training to client teams and system administrators.
• Identify opportunities to improve client outcomes and communicate insights to stakeholders.
• Contribute to BDO’s Workday delivery methodology and coach junior consultants.
• Support business development activities including discovery conversations, solution design, effort estimation, and proposals

Skills

Workday Financial Management

Client advisory

Delivery leadership

Workshop facilitation

Requirements analysis

Communication skills

Project management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Information Systems, or related field

Job description

BDO Canada is seeking a Senior Consultant for the Workday practice to deliver end-to-end Workday implementations within Finance transformations. You will combine Workday functional expertise with consulting and delivery capabilities to help clients achieve measurable outcomes throughout their digital transformation journeys.

You will collaborate with cross-functional technology, data, integration, and change teams to design scalable Workday configurations aligned with client objectives, guiding