Workday Finance Functional Lead

Summary

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
• · Procurement
• · FDM (Financial Data Model)
• · Business Assets
• · Banking & Settlement
• · Inventory
• 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.
• Data & Reporting: Hands-on Workday data conversion (EIB, iLoads) and/or report development experience.

Certifications (Mandatory):

• Workday Certified (Financial Core, Financial Services Practical & Essentials, or Workday P2P)
• Workday Financial iLoad practical experience
• Workday Financial Reporting

Primary Skillset:

Workday Finance (Core)

P2P (Procure to Pay)

Secondary Skillset:

Budgets, Reporting

Banking, Taxes, Supplier Accounts/Contracts

Procurement, Business Assets, Inventory

Education / Professional Experience/ Qualifications

Bachelor's or master's degree