1 day ago
Remote, United Kingdom +2 moreSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead discovery and Phase 0 engagements, producing target architectures, key design decisions, delivery options, and phased roadmaps.
- Own end-to-end Workday Financials solution design across accounting, data, reporting, integrations, controls, and sector requirements.
- Define how Workday Financials, Prism Analytics, Accounting Center, operational platforms, accounting engines, and reporting tools work together.
- Establish design governance and resolve cross-workstream decisions involving functional, data, integration, reporting, and security teams.
- Guide delivery through configuration review, testing, cutover, stabilization, reconciliation, readiness evidence, and design acceptance.
- Support FSI go-to-market activities, customer demonstrations, proposals, estimates, and account-team discovery.
- Develop sector reference architectures, decision guides, recipe cards, model-tenant scenarios, and reusable accelerators.
- Coach consultants and architects, review solution quality, and incorporate delivery lessons into the practice.
- Assess Workday releases and automation opportunities with relevant specialists.
Requirements
- Substantial Workday Financials experience across multiple deployments, including cross-functional solution design ownership and experience through go-live, major post-deployment change, or significant relevant client-side sector experience.
- Deep practical knowledge of the Foundation Data Model, financial accounting, and reporting, with breadth across procure to pay, customer to cash, banking and settlement, and assets.
- Direct finance transformation or delivery experience in at least one financial services or insurance subsector.
- Strong accounting fundamentals covering general ledger and subledger relationships, reconciliations, close, consolidation, and multi-entity or multi-currency reporting.
- Experience assessing Prism Analytics, Accounting Center, integration, migration, security, reporting dependencies, source data quality, audit trails, and reconciliation controls.
- Evidence of leading senior customer workshops, resolving competing requirements, documenting decisions, estimating work, and explaining commercial consequences.
- Experience coaching consultants and reviewing delivery quality.
- Relevant current or previous Workday Financials certification and commitment to maintain or renew required certifications.
- Desirable insurance experience in general insurance, life and pensions, health insurance, broking, or reinsurance.
- Desirable hands-on Workday Prism Analytics or Accounting Center delivery experience or certification.
- A recognized accountancy qualification such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or CPA, or equivalent professional experience.
- Exposure to Adaptive Planning, Workday Extend, finance automation, reusable sector assets, multi-jurisdiction finance architecture, or post-deployment customer support is desirable.
Benefits
- People-first culture emphasizing collaboration, creativity, diversity, equity, inclusion, and professional growth.
- Recruitment accommodations and adjustments are available through the talent acquisition team.
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Kainos
Kainos is a Belfast-headquartered, publicly listed IT services company that designs and delivers digital services and Workday solutions for public, healthcare and commercial clients. Its business includes agile software engineering, cloud and data platforms, systems integration, and a Workday implementation and testing practice (including the Smart automated testing product). Founded in 1986 and listed on the London Stock Exchange, Kainos operates across the UK, Europe and North America.