Workday Finance Consultant / Lead

The Workday Finance Consultant plays a key role in the implementation, optimisation, and ongoing support of Workday Financial Management within a complex government shared services environment. Working as part of a multi-disciplinary delivery team, you will provide subject-matter expertise across Workday Financials, supporting business changes, process improvement and system configuration. You will act as a trusted adviser to stakeholders, ensuring solutions are robust, compliant and aligned to UKSBS and government standards., The Workday Finance Lead is a senior specialist role providing technical leadership and subject-matter expertise across Workday Financial Management within a complex government shared services environment. In addition to hands-on configuration and delivery, you will provide direction, assurance, and oversight for Workday Financials solutions; support and supervise other consultants and analysts; and act as a senior point of escalation for complex issues. You will work closely with programme leadership, architects, system integrators and senior stakeholders to ensure solutions are robust, scalable and aligned to government standards.

• Demonstrable experience working with Workday Financial Management in a configuration, implementation or support role.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end finance processes within a complex organization.
• Ability to gather, analyze and document business requirements and produce high-qualityfunctional specifications.
• Experience working collaboratively across multi-disciplinary teams and with senior stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience supporting or delivering testing activities within an ERP or SaaS environment.
• Experience of working within a structured delivery environment, such as Agile or hybrid
• methodologies, using issue-tracking and ITSM tools, Significant experience working with Workday Financial Management in a senior configuration, implementation or support role.
• Deep understanding of end-to-end finance processes within large, complex organisations.
• Proven experience providing technical leadership, assurance or oversight within ERP or SaaS environments.
• Strong experience gathering, validating and translating complex business requirements into functional designs.
• Experience supervising, mentoring or coaching other consultants or analysts.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence at senior levels.
• Experience working within structured delivery environments, such as Agile, SAFe or hybrid methodologies, using issue-tracking and ITSM tools