Workday Finance Lead Consultant

About the Role

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 UKSBS and government standards.

Responsibilities

• Act as a senior Workday Financials authority, providing technical leadership across modules such as General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Expenses, Assets, Projects and Financial Reporting.
• Define and promote best practice for Workday Financials configuration, design and support across the team.
• Provide technical assurance and peer review of designs, configurations and changes delivered by colleagues, system integrators and third parties.

Essential Skills, Knowledge and Experience

• 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