We are seeking a highly experienced Workday Finance Functional Lead to drive large-scale, end-to-end Workday Financials implementations. In this client-facing leadership role, you will be responsible for complex solution design, configuration, and delivery across global deployments. You will act as a trusted advisor, bridging technical capabilities with financial business processes
Responsibilities
- Lead End-to-End Implementations: Act as the Lead Functional consultant on 2+ large enterprise end-to-end Workday Financials implementations, owning hands-on design, solutioning, configuration, and testing.
- Spend Management & Core Finance: Drive requirements and configuration across P2P (Procure to Pay), GL cycles with deep expertise in: Supplier Accounts/Contracts, Procurement, Financials, AP, Fixed Assets, Banking & Settlement, Inventory, and Integration with other applications.
- Global & Multi-Country Deployments: Manage complex deployments involving localization requirements (tax, legal, regulatory) across multiple countries.
- Strategic Problem Solving: Identify strategies, alternatives, approaches, risks, and mitigations to meet business requirements. Assist in testing and resolving complex issues.
- Methodology & Continuous Improvement: Develop and refine delivery methodologies, contributing to continuous improvements in implementation practices.
- Pre-Sales & Estimation: Support pre-sales activities, including accurately estimating scope, effort, and resources required to complete projects.
Required Technical & Professional Experience
- Implementation Leadership: Must have acted as Lead on 2 or more Large Enterprise End-to-End Workday Financials implementations with hands-on design, configuration, and testing experience.
- Core Spend Areas: Proven experience in Spend (Financial, AP, Fixed Asset) and integrations with other applications, specifically:
- Supplier Accounts / Contracts
- FDM (Financial Data Model)
- Business Assets
- Global Deployments: Demonstrated experience with global/multi-country deployments, including localization requirements.
- Risk & Testing: Ability to identify strategies, alternatives, risks, mitigations, and lead testing/issue resolution.
- Methodology & Pre-Sales: Experience in developing delivery improvements and supporting pre-sales activities (scope/effort/resource estimation).
Preferred Technical & Professional Experience
- Financial & Procurement Roles: Background in financial accounting and procurement roles
- Additional Workday Areas: Experience in FDM, Financial Accounting, Budgets, Reporting, Banking, Taxes, Supplier Accounts/Contracts, Procurement, Business Assets, Inventory.
Certifications (Mandatory):
- Workday Certified (Financial Core, Financial Services Practical & Essentials, or Workday P2P)
- Workday Financial iLoad practical experience
Primary Skillset:
- Workday Finance (Core)
- P2P (Procure to Pay)
Secondary Skillset:
- Budgets, Reporting
- Procurement, Business Assets, Inventory