Financials Solution Architect, Workday

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Lead the initiation and Phase 0 projects, generating target architectures, design choices, delivery alternatives, and phased roadmaps.

• Take ownership of the comprehensive Financials design encompassing record to report, FDM, chart of accounts, work tags, multi-entity and multi-currency accounting, intercompany processes, and reporting.

• Define the integration of Workday Financials, Prism Analytics, and Accounting Center with operational systems, accounting engines, and reporting tools.

• Convert financial services and insurance requirements into actionable process, accounting, data, and system designs.

• Establish design governance involving functional, data, integration, reporting, and security teams.

• Steer delivery through testing, cutover, and stabilization phases; evaluate configurations, prototypes, reconciliations, and readiness evidence.

• Assist FSI go-to-market and account teams with discovery activities, demonstrations, proposals, and cost estimates.

• Create sector reference architectures, decision-making guides, recipe cards, and reusable accelerators.

• Mentor lead consultants and architects, assess solution quality, and integrate delivery insights into the practice.

• Evaluate Workday releases and identify automation opportunities in collaboration with specialists.

• Collaborate with the FSI sector lead, Financials capability and delivery leaders, account teams, and customer finance executives.

• Ensure solution coherence for assigned projects while project managers manage delivery plans and budgets, and account leads handle commercial relationships.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive Workday Financials experience across numerous deployments, including responsibility for cross-functional solution design and experience through go-live or significant post-deployment changes, or considerable client-side sector involvement.

• Profound practical knowledge of FDM, financial accounting, and reporting.

• Comprehensive understanding of procure to pay, customer to cash, banking and settlement, and assets.

• Direct experience in finance transformation or delivery within at least one FSI subsector.

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

• Capability to evaluate the suitability of Prism Analytics and Accounting Center and define requirements with specialist delivery teams.

• Experience in assessing integration, migration, security, and reporting dependencies.

• Proven ability to lead senior customer workshops, resolve conflicting requirements, document decisions, estimate workloads, and clarify commercial implications.

• Experience in coaching consultants and assessing delivery quality.

• Relevant current or prior Workday Financials certification, with a commitment to maintaining or renewing necessary certifications.

• Experience in general insurance, life and pensions, health insurance, broking, or reinsurance (desirable).

• Hands-on experience or certification in Workday Prism Analytics or Accounting Center (desirable).

• Recognized accounting qualification such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or CPA, or equivalent professional experience (desirable).

• Familiarity with Adaptive Planning, Workday Extend, or finance automation (desirable).

• Experience in developing reusable sector assets, leading finance architecture across jurisdictions, or supporting customer finance teams post-deployment (desirable).

🏝️ Benefits

• People-first culture.

• Support for growth and development.

• Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

• Recruitment accommodations and adjustments.

• Tailored recruitment process to meet candidate needs through private discussions.