Join Kainos and Help Shape the Future of Workday FinancialsKainos is one of the world's most established Workday partners, helping global organisations transform their finance operations through the power of Workday.
We're looking for a
Principal Workday Financials Solution Architect to provide technical and functional leadership across complex Workday Financials programmes.
This is an opportunity to work directly with senior client stakeholders, influence strategic transformation initiatives, support business growth and help develop a world-class Workday Financials practice.
What You'll Be Doing- Lead the solution design and successful delivery of large-scale Workday Financials implementations.
- Act as a trusted advisor to CFOs, Finance Transformation Leaders and executive stakeholders.
- Provide architectural guidance and resolution for complex functional and business challenges.
- Partner with delivery teams to ensure high-quality, scalable and sustainable solutions.
- Support pre-sales activities, including solution design, proposals, estimates and client presentations.
- Contribute to capability growth through mentoring, coaching and knowledge sharing.
- Help attract, develop and retain top Workday talent.
- Represent Kainos as a Workday Financials subject matter expert both internally and externally.
Required ExperienceTo be successful in this role, candidates must have:
- Current Workday Financials Certification.
- Previous consulting experience within a Workday Partner organisation.
- Extensive experience leading and architecting Workday Financials implementations.
- Deep expertise in Workday Financial Management and Foundation Data Model (FDM).
- Proven experience operating as a Solution Architect, Lead Architect or Principal Consultant on enterprise-scale Workday programmes.
- Experience engaging with executive-level stakeholders and leading strategic client discussions.
- Strong understanding of finance transformation, operating models and shared services environments.
- Experience working across multiple phases of the implementation lifecycle, from discovery and design through deployment and post-go-live support.
- Experience supporting business development, solution estimation or pre-sales activities.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management and leadership skills.
Preferred Experience- Certifications across additional Workday Financials products and modules.
- Experience with Procurement, Expenses, Revenue Management, Accounting Center and Reporting.
- Experience leading global or multi-country Workday deployments.
