Impact-Driven Workday Finance Consultant

Cognizant; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Workday Financials Consultant to design, configure, and deliver Workday Financial Management solutions on large-scale transformations. You will work closely with clients and project teams to align with business objectives and Workday leading practices.

The role combines strong functional expertise with a collaborative delivery approach, touching requirements gathering, design, configuration, testing, and deployment in a multi-disciplinary setting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Active Workday Financials Certification preferred.
• 2+ years of Workday Financials implementation experience.
• Experience participating in end-to-end Workday Financials implementation projects.
• Functional expertise in R2R, P2P and C2C.
• Experience gathering requirements, facilitating workshops, solution configuration, testing, and deployment activities.
• Understanding of core finance and accounting processes and controls.
• Experience working with cross-functional project teams including Reporting, Security, Integrations, Data, and Change Management.
• Strong consulting, stakeholder management, facilitation, and communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities within a fast-paced consulting environment.
• Eligible for SC Clearance - UK resident for last five years and legally entitled to work in the UK.
• Minimal travel required, but willing to travel on-site as needed.

Responsibilities

• Participate in Workday Financials implementation projects, supporting clients throughout the project lifecycle from discovery through deployment.
• Facilitate requirements gathering workshops and design sessions to define Workday Financial Management solutions aligned to business needs.
• Configure and deliver Workday Financial Management solutions across R2R, P2P, and C2C.
• Support clients in transforming finance processes by applying Workday leading practices and industry standards.
• Prepare functional design documentation and collaborate with Integrations, Reporting, Security, Data Conversion, Change Management, and Project Management teams.
• Support solution testing activities including system testing, integration testing, user acceptance testing, and defect resolution.
• Assist with deployment, cutover, hypercare, and transition-to-support activities.
• Build and maintain strong client relationships through effective communication and stakeholder management.
• Support pre-sales activities including solution demonstrations, estimations, proposal responses, and customer presentations.
• Contribute to practice development through knowledge sharing, internal training, asset development, and methodology improvements.
• Maintain expertise in Workday Financials functionality, industry trends, and product enhancements.

Skills

Workday Certification

Workday R2R

Workday P2P

Workday C2C

End-to-end Projects

Requirements gathering

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Workday Financials Consultant to design, configure, and deliver Workday Financial Management solutions on large-scale transformations. You will work closely with clients and project teams to align with business objectives and Workday leading practices.

The role combines strong functional expertise with a collaborative delivery approach, touching requirements gathering, design, configuration, testing, and deployment in a multi-disciplinary setting.