Workday FSI Financials Solution Architect

Kainos; Belfast City District; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Kainos seeks a Workday FSI Financials Solution Architect to own the overall finance solution design for financial services and insurance clients. You will translate finance outcomes into design decisions, guiding teams through delivery and shaping opportunities with reference designs and reusable assets.

The role requires substantial Workday Financials expertise, deep knowledge of FDM and accounting, and the ability to collaborate with business sponsors and delivery teams to ensure governance,

Qualifications

• Substantial Workday Financials experience across multiple deployments and go-live or major post-deployment change.
• Deep practical knowledge of financial accounting, reporting, and multi-entity or multi-currency setups.
• Experience explaining design decisions to business and IT stakeholders in a finance-driven context.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end Financials design, including record to report, COA, and multi-entity considerations.
• Define how Workday Financials, Prism Analytics, and Accounting Center fit with other platforms and data flows.
• Guide delivery from design through testing, cutover and stabilisation with governance across teams.
• Support go-to-market and sales efforts with demonstrations, proposals, and scope assumptions.
• Develop sector reference architectures, validation criteria, and reusable accelerators for the practice.
• Coach junior architects and lead consultants to lift solution quality and consistency.

Skills

Workday Financials

Solution design

Financial systems

Stakeholder management

Tools

FDM

Accounting Center

Prism Analytics

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.

As a Workday FSI Financials Solution Architect at Kainos, you will own the overall finance solution design for financial services and insurance customers. You will translate finance outcomes into decisions about processes, accounting, data and systems, and guide teams through delivery. Alongside customer engagements, you will shape opportunities and strengthen our sector capability through reference designs, reusable assets, and coaching.

We value depth in a relevant subsector and the judgement to draw on specialists.

Key responsibilities

• Lead discovery and Phase 0 engagements, producing a target architecture, key design decisions, delivery options and a phased roadmap. Make assumptions, dependencies, trade-offs and readiness gaps clear to customer sponsors.
• Own the end-to-end Financials design, with depth in record to report, the Foundation Data Model (FDM), chart of accounts, work tags, multi-entity and multi-currency accounting, intercompany and reporting.
• Define how Workday Financials, Prism Analytics and Accounting Center fit alongside operational platforms, specialist accounting engines and reporting tools. Allocate responsibility for accounting generation, data enrichment, reconciliation, and settlement explicitly.
• Translate sector requirements into practical design choices. For insurance, address premium and claim flows, commissions, reinsurance balances and reporting dimensions with the relevant business and accounting specialists.
• Establish design governance across functional, data, integration, reporting and security teams. Resolve cross-workstream decisions and ensure designs address control evidence, access, traceability, transaction volumes and operational support.
• Guide delivery from design through testing, cutover and stabilisation. Review critical configurations and prototypes, challenge unresolved assumptions, and assure reconciliations and readiness evidence before recommending design acceptance.
• Support the FSI go-to-market and account teams with discovery, demonstrations, proposals and estimates. Explain solution value and delivery risks and agree achievable scope and assumptions with delivery leaders.
• Develop sector reference architectures, decision guides and recipe cards. Set quality standards for model-tenant scenarios and accelerators, documenting validation, applicability and limitations before reuse.
• Coach lead consultants and architects, review solution quality and feed delivery lessons into the practice. Assess relevant Workday releases and automation opportunities with the appropriate specialists.

Working relationships and accountability

You will partner with the FSI sector lead, Financials capability and delivery leaders, account teams and customer finance leadership. You own solution coherence on assigned engagements; project managers own the delivery plan and budget, while account leads own commercial relationships. Customer approvals follow the agreed design governance. Time for sector assets and presales will be planned alongside delivery commitments.

Experience and capabilities

We are looking for a finance-led architect who can explain why a design fits the customer, make sound decisions under uncertainty, and remain close enough to the platform to challenge implementation choices.

Essential requirements

Substantial Workday Financials experience across multiple deployments, including ownership of cross-functional solution design and experience through go-live or major post-deployment change or significant depth in experience on client-side in a relevant sector.

Deep practical knowledge of FDM, financial accounting and reporting, with sufficient breadth across procure to pay, customer to cash, banking and settlement, and assets to manage design dependencies.

Direct finance transformation or delivery experience in at least one FSI subsector. Ability to explain how its business model, accounting flows and control requirements change a Workday design.

Strong accounting fundamentals, including general ledger and subledger relationships, reconciliations, close and consolidation requirements, and multi-entity or multi-currency reporting.

Ability to assess when Prism Analytics and Accounting Center are appropriate, distinguish data preparation from accounting rule execution, and define requirements with specialist delivery teams.

Experience assessing integration, mig