Principal Functional Consultant

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About the Team

Workdays Financial Consulting teams are driven by a passion for our products and the success of our customers in implementing our best in class cloud solutions. Were a diverse group of people with an invaluable mix of experience and backgrounds located across multiple locations within the region. Operating within the UKI region our consultants work directly with growing mid-market enterprises and global organizations to modernise legacy accounting platforms navigate regional statutory requirements and drive digital financial transformation.

About the Role

Our team promotes Workdays core values with Employees being the first of them! This is why we:

• Offer flexible work schedules aligned to our flex model
• Empower you to follow your desired career path & achieve professional and personal goals
• Encourage work-life balance and wellbeing
• Are proud to champion equal opportunities for everyone

We are looking for someone to join our team who brings strong consulting expertise a collaborative approach and a desire to deliver high-impact results for our customers.

As a Principal Functional Consultant (P5) you will take a lead role on project engagements taking ownership of core functional finance workstreams across complex end-to-end Workday Financial Management implementations. You will act as a trusted advisor to key financial stakeholders driving solution design workshops configuring robust system setups and guiding customers through key project milestones while mentoring junior team members.

What you will achieve in your first 12 24 months. Here are some of the activities you will experience on your Workday career journey:

• Within your first 3 months you will complete or refresh your Workday Core Finance Certification and obtain advanced Specialist Certifications across key modules (e.g. General Ledger Accounts Payable/Receivable Procurement or Expenses).
• You will take immediate ownership of primary Finance workstreams on active deployments acting as the primary functional expert during discovery and configuration phases.
• You will work closely with cross-functional project leads including Data Integration and Technical Consultants to architect seamless touchpoints across the entire solution delivery landscape.
• Demonstrate advanced mastery of Workdays implementation methodology across each project phase:
  • Facilitating deep-dive business requirement sessions with CFO organization SMEs demonstrating standard Workday best practices and mapping legacy accounting structures to the Workday Foundation Data Model (FDM).
  • Leading testing streams (Unit E2E and UAT) managing client resolution paths for edge cases and guiding customers through risk-mitigated go-live cutover activities.
• Within your 1st year you will have successfully delivered at least 12 full-cycle complex implementation projects in the UKI market.
• In your 2nd year you will expand your footprint by leading multi-stream financial designs mentoring P3/P4 functional consultants and contributing to internal UKI practice assets and continuous deployment innovations.

About You

• 10 years of functional consulting experience either as an Internal Consultant or with a Consulting/Software company focused on enterprise financial management applications.
• 6 years of hands-on experience implementing or configuring Workday Financials (Core Financials FDM General Ledger AP/AR Assets Banking or Revenue).
• Deep understanding of corporate financial accounting multi-currency operations and statutory reporting frameworks within the UKI region.
• Language Skills: Fluency in English.

• Demonstrated ability to build trust with finance leaders and functional SMEs constructively challenging legacy processes in favor of modern standardized SaaS workflows.
• Strong business analysis requirements gathering and workshop facilitation skills with an ability to present technical configurations clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven capability to mentor junior team members and review configuration quality across sub-workstreams.
• Sales & Pre-Sales Enablement: Demonstrated ability to support the sales ecosystem by participating in executive pitches responding to complex RFPs/RFIs scoping services efforts and clearly articulating the business value of Workdays architecture to prospective C-suite buyers.
• AI & Innovation Stewardship: Proven capability to leverage AI and Machine Learning tools to optimize financial processes design touchless accounting flows and advise the Office of the CFO on adopting AI to drive efficiency and predictive intelligence.
• Demonstrated ability to act as a strategic advisor to FIN leadership connecting solution recommendations to business strategy key metrics and executive priorities.
• Comfort working in highstakes environments where timelines budgets and quality are tightly managed with a focus on risk identification mitigation and clear executiveready communication.
• A detail-driven problem solver with a passion for delivering exceptional levels of customer service.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and comfortable presenting to both prospective buyers and current clients.
• Ability and desire to learn technology quickly through a mix of different mediums.
• Resourceful and adaptable; youll be comfortable working remotely utilising a variety of collaboration and productivity tools with a high degree of autonomy.
• Experience in the UKI public sector across both the sales cycle and implementation is preferred.
• Under normal circumstances ability to travel up to 30% of time as customer and sales pipeline needs require.

Our Approach to Flexible Work

With Flex Work were combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections maintain a strong community and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways so rather than a number of required days in-office each week we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers prospects and partners (depending on role). This means youll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business team and personal needs while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote home office roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

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