Workday FSI Financials Solution Architect

Description

The company is a technology firm delivering Workday solutions and digital services, working as one team with a people-first culture.

This is a solution architect role for financial services and insurance customers. You will own the overall finance solution design, turning finance outcomes into decisions on processes, accounting, data and systems, and guiding teams through delivery.

You will also help shape new opportunities and build sector capability through reference designs, reusable assets and coaching.

The company values depth in a 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 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, and resolve cross-workstream decisions.
• 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 check 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.
• Build sector reference architectures, decision guides and recipe cards. Set quality standards for model-tenant scenarios and accelerators, documenting 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 is 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 client-side depth 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, 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 granularity 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.
• You are a finance-led architect who can explain why a design suits the customer, make sound decisions under uncertainty, and stay close enough to the platform to challenge implementation choices.
• Desirable: insurance depth in general insurance, life and pensions, health insurance, broking or reinsurance, and an understanding of how applicable accounting and regulatory reporting 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, plus 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 an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applicants of all backgrounds.

Candidates who need accommodations or adjustments can ask for a private conversation to tailor the recruitment process.