Workday FSI Financials Solution Architect

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

📋 Description

• Take charge of the comprehensive finance solution design tailored for clients in financial services and insurance.

• Convert financial outcomes into actionable decisions regarding processes, accounting, data, and systems.

• Lead the discovery phase and Phase 0 engagements, generating target architectures, design decisions, delivery options, and phased roadmaps.

• Manage the complete Financials design encompassing FDM, chart of accounts, work tags, multi-entity and multi-currency accounting, intercompany transactions, and reporting.

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

• Transform sector-specific requirements into practical design choices for insurance premium, claim, commission, and reinsurance processes.

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

• Provide guidance during testing, cutover, and stabilization phases.

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

• Create sector reference architectures, decision guides, recipe cards, and reusable assets.

• Mentor lead consultants and architects, evaluate solution quality, and assess Workday releases and automation possibilities.

• Collaborate with FSI, Financials, delivery, account, and customer finance leaders to ensure solution coherence on assigned projects.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience with Workday Financials across multiple deployments, including ownership of cross-functional solution design and experience through go-live or significant post-deployment changes, or substantial client-side sector experience.

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

• Broad knowledge across procure-to-pay, customer-to-cash, banking and settlement, and assets.

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

• Strong foundation in accounting principles, including relationships between general ledger and subledger, reconciliations, close and consolidation requirements, and multi-entity or multi-currency reporting.

• Capability to evaluate the applicability of Prism Analytics and Accounting Center.

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

• Proven record of leading senior customer workshops, reconciling competing requirements, documenting decisions, estimating work, and clarifying commercial implications.

• Experience mentoring consultants and reviewing the quality of delivery.

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

• Experience in insurance across one or more areas, including general insurance, life and pensions, health insurance, broking, or reinsurance.

• Practical delivery experience or certification in Workday Prism Analytics or Accounting Center.

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

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

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

🏝️ Benefits

• People-first culture.

• Growth support.

• Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

• Recruitment accommodations and adjustments.

• Customized recruitment process support.