Kainos

Workday Accounting Center Lead Consultant

Kainos$90K — $120K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Workday Advanced Reporting certification with expertise in Advanced, Matrix, and Composite Reporting.
  • Workday Prism Analytics certification with hands-on experience in Prism delivery.
  • Strong knowledge of Workday Financials.
  • Excellent customer-oriented skills in an advisory role, capable of managing relationships and expectations.
  • Strong communication skills with a clear understanding of project dynamics.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, test, and optimize custom Workday reports including Dashboards, Discovery Boards, and various reporting types, ensuring configured Calculated Fields meet requirements.
  • Translate reporting needs into actionable, governed solutions while leading reporting workstreams and prioritizing based on customer complexity.
  • Build and maintain data ingestion tables and connections for Prism, enriching data for the Accounting Center.
  • Configure mapping tables and journal rules to convert business events into detailed financial entries, ensuring multi-currency accuracy.
  • Support the full lifecycle of the Accounting Center by troubleshooting and ensuring data accuracy from journaling back to the original sources.
  • Mentor junior consultants and suggest improvements to tools and processes, while rotating between Consulting and AMS delivery workflows.

Benefits

  • Mentorship opportunities for career development and skills enhancement.
  • Work in a dynamic team serving diverse customers across multiple industries.
  • Exposure to cutting-edge tools like Workday Prism Analytics and advanced financial reporting techniques.
  • The role encourages independent and remote work, providing flexibility in work arrangements.
  • Opportunities for professional growth through engagement in high-complexity projects.
Full Job Description
Role Overview

As a WorkdayAccounting CenterLeadConsultant, you will drive customer transformation through the revision and creation of Workday reports, and analytic solutions using Prism Analytics and Accounting Center, based on both customer requirements and our capability best practices. You will work as part of a delivery team serving customers of all sizes across multiple industries, quickly becoming a specialist within your field while providing mentorship and oversight to more junior team members.

You will extend deep reportingexpertise1 Advanced, Matrix and Composite Reporting, Dashboards, Discovery Boards, and Worksheets 1 into Prism Analytics and Accounting Center, building the data pipelines that transform operational data into accounting journals that hit the General Ledger. This role is vital in transforming customers Workday data into information that drives their business decisions.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, build, test, andoptimizecustom Workday reports across Financialsand PSA(Advanced, Matrix, Composite), Dashboards, Discovery Boards, and Worksheets; configure complex Calculated Fields.

  • Translate reporting requirements into defensible, well-governed solutions, applying reporting security and data-source/sharing best practices; lead reporting workstreams on deployment engagements, prioritizing based on customer needsand complexity.

  • Build andmaintainPrism ingestion tables, datasets, connections,and data change tasks that source and enrich data for Accounting Center.

  • Configure enrichment stages, mapping tables, and journal header/line rules to transform high-volume business events into detailed and summarized journals; ensure correct multi-currency precision.

  • Support the full Accounting Center lifecycle 1 discovery, build, batch processing, troubleshooting, error handling, and reconciliation 1 with a clear understanding of the accounting implications of the data being transformed, whilemaintainingfull data lineage from journal back to source.

  • Mentor junior consultants, suggest tool/process enhancements tobenefitthe practice, and rotate through Consulting and AMS delivery, meeting defined SLAs.

Minimum (Essential) Requirements

  • Workday Advanced Reporting certification; essential experience in Advanced, Matrix, and Composite Reporting.

  • Workday Prism Analytics certification, with demonstrable prior hands-on Prism delivery experience.

  • Solid understanding of WorkdayFinancials

  • Strong customer orientation in an advisory environment; able to build relationships, manage expectations, and know when to escalate.

  • Clearcommunicatorwith customers and colleagues; strong commercial awareness and understanding of project/business dynamics.

  • Able to work within (remote) teams and independently, planownworkload, meet deadlines, andfacilitateworkshops.

  • Maintains high quality, accuracy, and confidentiality; able to travel to in-region customer sites asrequired.

Desirable

  • Workday Accounting Center Certification with prior delivery experience is preferred.

  • Experiencein Financial Services or Professional Business Services accounting is preferred.

  • Prior experience with Workday PSA is preferred.

About Kainos

Future plc is an international multimedia company established in the United Kingdom in 1985. The company has over 220 brands that span magazines, newsletters, websites, and events in fields such as video games, technology, films, music, photography, home, and knowledge. Future was described by The Guardian in September 2022 as "one of Europe’s biggest and most successful digital media companies". Zillah Byng-Thorne has been CEO since 2014. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
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