Workday FSI Financials Solution Architect

Description

The company delivers Workday work for financial services and insurance customers, and this role sits at the sector level, combining customer engagements with building reusable sector capability.

You will own the overall finance solution design for these customers, turning finance outcomes into choices about processes, accounting, data and systems, and guiding teams through delivery.

You will also help shape opportunities and build sector assets such as reference designs, reusable components and coaching material.

The role values depth in one relevant subsector and the judgement to bring in specialists when needed.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery and Phase 0 work, producing a target architecture, key design decisions, delivery options and a phased roadmap.
• Make assumptions, dependencies, trade-offs and readiness gaps clear to customer sponsors.
• Own the end-to-end Financials design, with particular depth in record to report, the Foundation Data Model (FDM), chart of accounts, work tags, multi-entity and multi-currency accounting, intercompany and reporting.
• Define how Workday Financials, Prism Analytics and Accounting Center work alongside operational platforms, specialist accounting engines and reporting tools.
• Assign clear ownership for accounting generation, data enrichment, reconciliation and settlement.
• Turn sector requirements into practical design choices. For insurance, work with business and accounting specialists on premium and claim flows, commissions, reinsurance balances and reporting dimensions.
• Set up design governance across functional, data, integration, reporting and security teams, resolve cross-workstream decisions, and make sure designs cover control evidence, access, traceability, transaction volumes and operational support.
• Guide delivery through testing, cutover and stabilisation. Review critical configurations and prototypes, challenge open assumptions, and confirm reconciliations and readiness evidence before recommending design acceptance.
• Support the FSI go-to-market and account teams with discovery, demonstrations, proposals and estimates. Explain solution value and delivery risks, and agree achievable scope and assumptions with delivery leaders.
• Write sector reference architectures, decision guides and recipe cards. Set quality standards for model-tenant scenarios and accelerators, and document validation, applicability and limitations before reuse.
• Coach lead consultants and architects, review solution quality, and feed delivery lessons back into the practice. Assess relevant Workday releases and automation opportunities with the right specialists.
• You will work with the FSI sector lead, Financials capability and delivery leaders, account teams and customer finance leadership.
• You own solution coherence on assigned engagements. Project managers own the delivery plan and budget, and account leads own commercial relationships. Customer approvals follow the agreed design governance.
• Time for sector assets and presales will be planned alongside delivery commitments.

Requirements

• Substantial Workday Financials experience across multiple deployments, including owning cross-functional solution design and going through go-live or major post-deployment change, or significant depth of client-side experience in a relevant sector.
• Deep practical knowledge of FDM and financial accounting and reporting, with enough breadth across procure to pay, customer to cash, banking and settlement, and assets to manage design dependencies.
• Direct finance transformation or delivery experience in at least one FSI subsector, and the ability to explain how its business model, accounting flows and control requirements change a Workday design.
• Strong accounting fundamentals, including general ledger and subledger relationships, reconciliations, close and consolidation requirements, and multi-entity or multi-currency reporting.
• Ability to judge when Prism Analytics and Accounting Center are the right fit, separate data preparation from accounting rule execution, and define requirements with specialist delivery teams.
• Experience assessing integration, migration, security and reporting dependencies, including source data quality, audit trails, reconciliation controls and the level of detail finance reporting needs.
• Evidence of leading senior customer workshops, resolving competing requirements, documenting decisions, estimating work and explaining commercial consequences clearly.
• Experience coaching consultants and reviewing delivery quality.
• Current or previous Workday Financials certification, with a commitment to maintain or renew the certifications the role requires.
• Desirable: insurance depth in one or more of general insurance, life and pensions, health insurance, broking or reinsurance, and an understanding of how applicable accounting and regulatory reporting requirements affect finance data.
• Desirable: hands-on delivery experience or certification in Workday Prism Analytics or Accounting Center, including operational data ingestion, accounting rules and reconciliation.
• Desirable: a recognised accountancy qualification such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA or CPA, or equivalent professional experience, and exposure to Adaptive Planning, Workday Extend or finance automation.
• Desirable: experience building reusable sector assets, leading finance architecture across jurisdictions, or supporting customer finance teams after deployment.

Conditions

The company is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and welcomes applicants of every background.

Candidates who need accommodations or adjustments in the recruitment process can ask for a private conversation to set this up.