Workday Financials: Accounting Center & Prism Analytics

Cognizant; United States; Hybrid; USD 148,000 - 201,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Principal Consultant to orchestrate Workday Financials engagements with a focus on Accounting Center and Prism Analytics. You will guide transformations, design solutions, and lead delivery across finance, data, and technical teams to deliver scalable accounting solutions.

You will mentor consultants, engage with senior stakeholders, and drive data-driven reporting transformations while travel on-site as needed.

Qualifications

• 8-12+ years of ERP consulting experience, with strong exposure to finance transformation and data-led solutions.
• 5+ years of Workday Financials implementation experience, including Accounting Center and/or Prism Analytics.
• Accounting Center design (accounting rules, journal processing, event-driven accounting)
• Prism Analytics (datasets, pipelines, reporting, and data modelling)
• Strong understanding of core finance processes, including general ledger, accounting, and financial reporting.
• Experience delivering data transformation and reporting solutions within ERP or SaaS environments.
• Experience integrating multiple source systems into financial platforms.
• Proven ability to lead complex, multi-workstream programmes and make tactical delivery decisions.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with experience working with senior business leaders.
• Proven leadership and mentoring experience within consulting teams.
• Minimal travel required, but must be willing to travel on‑site as needed
• Eligible for SC Clearance - you must have been a UK resident for the last five years and be legally entitled to work in the UK

Responsibilities

• Act as a subject matter expert in Workday Financials, with deep specialization in Accounting Center and Prism Analytics.
• Lead the end-to-end design and delivery of Accounting Center solutions, including accounting rules, journal generation frameworks, and source data integration.
• Architect and oversee Prism Analytics data pipelines, datasets, and reporting solutions to support financial insights and decision-making.
• Drive solution design workshops, translating complex business and data requirements into scalable Workday configurations.
• Define and lead data strategy, including ingestion, transformation, reconciliation, and auditability of financial data.
• Provide strategic guidance to clients on data-driven accounting models and reporting transformation.
• Own and drive delivery across multiple workstreams, ensuring alignment between finance, data, and technical teams.
• Identify dependencies and manage integration between source systems, Accounting Center, and Prism Analytics.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders, including Finance and IT leadership.
• Lead, mentor, and develop consultants and analysts, fostering both functional and technical capability growth.
• Oversee testing strategies, validation processes, and issue resolution to ensure high-quality deliverables.
• Take leadership roles such as Engagement Lead, Solution Architect, or Delivery Assurance Reviewer.
• Ensure adherence to organisational standards, delivery methodologies, and best practices.
• Support business development activities, including solution shaping and client proposals where required.

Skills

ERP consulting

Workday Financials

Accounting Center

Prism Analytics

Data transformation

Leadership

Mentoring

Stakeholder mgmt

Security clearance

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Principal Consultant to orchestrate Workday Financials engagements with a focus on Accounting Center and Prism Analytics. You will guide transformations, design solutions, and lead delivery across finance, data, and technical teams to deliver scalable accounting solutions.

You will mentor consultants, engage with senior stakeholders, and drive data-driven reporting transformations while travel on-site as needed.