1 day ago
Remote, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead discovery and Phase 0 engagements, producing target architectures, design decisions, delivery options, and phased roadmaps.
- Own end-to-end Workday Financials solution design across accounting, data, reporting, integrations, security, and operational support.
- Define the roles of Workday Financials, Prism Analytics, Accounting Center, operational platforms, accounting engines, and reporting tools.
- Address financial-services and insurance requirements including premium and claims flows, commissions, reinsurance balances, and reporting dimensions.
- Establish design governance, resolve cross-workstream decisions, and assure controls, reconciliations, traceability, readiness evidence, and operational support.
- Guide delivery through testing, cutover, stabilization, and design acceptance.
- Support customer workshops, demonstrations, proposals, estimates, presales, and FSI go-to-market activities.
- Develop sector reference architectures, decision guides, recipe cards, model-tenant scenarios, and reusable accelerators.
- Coach lead 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.
- Ability to assess Prism Analytics and Accounting Center, distinguish data preparation from accounting rule execution, and define requirements with specialist teams.
- Experience assessing integration, migration, security, and reporting dependencies, including source data quality, audit trails, reconciliation controls, and finance-reporting granularity.
- Experience 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, with commitment to maintain or renew certifications required for the role.
- Desirable: insurance-sector depth in general insurance, life and pensions, health insurance, broking, or reinsurance.
- Desirable: hands-on delivery experience or certification in Workday Prism Analytics or Accounting Center.
- Desirable: recognised accountancy qualification such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or CPA, or equivalent professional experience.
- Desirable: exposure to Adaptive Planning, Workday Extend, finance automation, reusable sector assets, cross-jurisdiction finance architecture, or post-deployment customer support.
Benefits
- People-first culture emphasizing inclusion, collaboration, creativity, and employee 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.