Workday Financials Principal Consultant

The Principal Consultant will act as a strategic bridge between business and technical teams, solving complex Workday intersystem challenges.

About Collaborative Solutions

• Global operations, with opportunities in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific An abundance of Affinity groups to meet your needs
• Work as One: We think beyond roles, relying on each other’s strengths to win as a team.
• We always aim for excellence in how we work and what we deliver.
• We push boundaries and take chances to reimagine what’s possible.
• We all lead with integrity and always make the ethical choice.
• We own the outcomes for our company, colleagues, and community.

Responsibilities

• This role leads clients through transformation, implementation, and operational phases of Workday Financial projects, ensuring successful delivery aligned to best practices and client-specific requirements.
• Serve as a Workday Financials subject matter expert, with deep expertise across design, configuration, testing, and implementation.
• Lead clients through end-to-end Workday Financials implementations, from discovery and design through deployment and post-go-live support.
• Facilitate design workshops and decision-making sessions, translating business requirements into scalable Workday solutions.
• Provide functional leadership across key areas, including Core Financials, Banking & Cash Management and Order-to-Cash (O2C) / Accounts Receivable.
• Drive tactical direction of project workstreams, ensuring alignment with overall programme goals.
• Identify dependencies and manage integration points across multiple workstreams.
• Lead, mentor, and oversee consultants and analysts; provide guidance, task allocation, and performance feedback.
• Act as a trusted advisor to clients, maintaining strong stakeholder relationships throughout the project lifecycle.
• Support clients through system transition, ensuring smooth migration from legacy systems to Workday.
• Configuration migration between tenants Business process and security configuration Translate and map data sources into conversion templates and validate data integrity.
• Regularly communicate progress, risks, and changes to stakeholders, project teams, and leadership.
• Take on leadership roles such as Delivery Lead, Product Partner Lead, or Delivery Assurance Reviewer where required.
• Reinforce organisational policies, standards, and best practices.
• Contribute to internal knowledge sharing, training, and capability development across the organisation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of Workday Financials implementation experience Strong background in financial operations, accounting, or supply chain processes.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to effectively manage customer expectations.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint programs.
• Functional expertise in one or more Workday Financial Management pillars: Record-to-Report (R2R) Procure-to-Pay (P2P) Contracts-to-Cash (C2C) Experience gathering requirements, facilitating workshops, solution design, configuration, testing, and deployment.
• Strong consulting, stakeholder management, facilitation, and communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced consulting environment.
• Eligible for SC Clearance - you must have been a UK resident for the last five years and be legally entitled to work in the UK.
• Minimal travel required, but must be willing to travel on-site as needed. #LI-Remote Why choose

Benefits

• Outreach programs that support communities and tap into your volunteer spirit
• Learning opportunities to help current needs and advancement

Cognizant

Entrepreneurial environment that welcomes your ideas Opportunity to do great work