Workday Accounting Center Lead Consultant

Kainos; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Kainos in Canada is seeking a Workday Accounting Center Lead Consultant to drive customer transformation by designing and delivering advanced Workday reports, Prism Analytics, and Accounting Center solutions. You will work within a delivery team across industries, mentor junior consultants, and ensure data lineage from journals to the general ledger while supporting multi-currency processing.

This role blends advisory client work with hands-on technical delivery, requiring certification and

Qualifications

• Workday Advanced Reporting certification; essential experience in Advanced, Matrix, and Composite Reporting.
• Workday Prism Analytics certification, with demonstrable Prism delivery experience.
• Solid understanding of Workday Financials.
• Strong customer orientation in an advisory environment; ability to build relationships, manage expectations, and drive outcomes.
• Clear communicator with customers and colleagues; strong commercial awareness and understanding of project dynamics.
• Able to work within remote teams and independently, plan workload, meet deadlines, and facilitate workshops.
• Maintains high quality, accuracy, and confidentiality; able to travel to in-region customer sites as required.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and optimize custom Workday reports across Financials and PSA (Advanced, Matrix, Composite), Dashboards, Discovery Boards, and Worksheets; configure complex Calculated Fields.
• Translate reporting requirements into defensible, well-governed solutions, applying reporting security and data-source/sharing best practices; lead reporting workstreams on deployment engagements, prioritizing based on customer needs and complexity.
• Build and maintain Prism ingestion tables, datasets, connections, and data change tasks that source and enrich data for Accounting Center.
• Configure enrichment stages, mapping tables, and journal header/line rules to transform high-volume business events into detailed and summarized journals; ensure correct multi-currency precision.
• Support the full Accounting Center lifecycle — discovery, build, batch processing, troubleshooting, error handling, and reconciliation — with a clear understanding of the accounting implications of the data being transformed, while maintaining full data lineage from journal back to source.
• Mentor junior consultants, suggest tool/process enhancements to benefit the practice, and rotate through Consulting and AMS delivery, meeting defined SLAs.

Skills

Advanced Reporting

Prism Analytics

Workday Financials

Stakeholder management

Mentorship

Remote collaboration

Job description

Join Kainos and Shape the Future

At Kainos, we’re problem solvers, innovators, and collaborators - driven by a shared mission to create real impact. Whether we’re transforming digital services for millions, delivering cutting-edge Workday solutions, or pushing the boundaries of technology, we do it together.

We believe in a people-first culture, where your ideas are valued, your growth is supported, and your contributions truly make a difference. Here, you’ll be part of a diverse, ambitious team that celebrates creativity and collaboration.

Ready to make your mark? Join us and be part of something bigger.

Role Overview

As a Workday Accounting Center Lead Consultant, you will drive customer transformation through the revision and creation of Workday reports, and analytic solutions using Prism Analytics and Accounting Center, based on both customer requirements and our capability best practices. You will work as part of a delivery team serving customers of all sizes across multiple industries, quickly becoming a specialist within your field while providing mentorship and oversight to more junior team members.

You will extend deep reporting expertise — Advanced, Matrix and Composite Reporting, Dashboards, Discovery Boards, and Worksheets — into Prism Analytics and Accounting Center, building the data pipelines that transform operational data into accounting journals that hit the General Ledger. This role is vital in transforming customers’ Workday data into information that drives their business decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and optimize custom Workday reports across Financials and PSA (Advanced, Matrix, Composite), Dashboards, Discovery Boards, and Worksheets; configure complex Calculated Fields.
• Translate reporting requirements into defensible, well-governed solutions, applying reporting security and data-source/sharing best practices; lead reporting workstreams on deployment engagements, prioritizing based on customer needs and complexity.
• Build and maintain Prism ingestion tables, datasets, connections, and data change tasks that source and enrich data for Accounting Center.
• Configure enrichment stages, mapping tables, and journal header/line rules to transform high-volume business events into detailed and summarized journals; ensure correct multi-currency precision.
• Support the full Accounting Center lifecycle — discovery, build, batch processing, troubleshooting, error handling, and reconciliation — with a clear understanding of the accounting implications of the data being transformed, while maintaining full data lineage from journal back to source.
• Mentor junior consultants, suggest tool/process enhancements to benefit the practice, and rotate through Consulting and AMS delivery, meeting defined SLAs.

Minimum (Essential) Requirements

• Workday Advanced Reporting certification; essential experience in Advanced, Matrix, and Composite Reporting.
• Workday Prism Analytics certification, with demonstrable prior hands-on Prism delivery experience.
• Solid understanding of Workday Financials
• Strong customer orientation in an advisory environment; able to build relationships, manage expectations, and know when to escape.
• Clear communicator with customers and colleagues; strong commercial awareness and understanding of project/business dynamics.
• Able to work within (remote) teams and independently, plan own workload, meet deadlines, and facilitate workshops.
• Maintains high quality, accuracy, and confidentiality; able to travel to in-region customer sites as required.

Desirable

• Workday Accounting Center Certification with prior delivery experience is preferred.
• Experience in Financial Services or Professional Business Services accounting is preferred.
• Prior experience with Workday PSA is preferred.

Embracing our differences

At Kainos, we believe in the power of diversity, equity and inclusion. We are committed to building a team that is as diverse as the world we live in, where everyone is valued, respected, and given an equal chance to thrive. We actively seek out talented people from all backgrounds, regardless of age, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability, or any other characteristic that makes them who they are. We also believe every candidate deserves a level playing field.

Our friendly talent acquisition team is here to support you every step of the way, so if you require any accommodations or adjustments, we encourage you to reach out.

We understand that everyone's journey is different, and by having a private conversation we can ensure that our recruitment process is tailored to your needs.