Workday Financials Solution Architect

Job Title: Workday Financials Solution Architect
Location: London
Rate: DOE - Inside IR35

12 Month Initial Contract

Workday Financials Solution Architect needed to be the face of the solution for the Financials implementation. This position will lead the end-to-end solution design, ensuring alignment between business objectives, finance processes, and system capabilities. There is no need for an up-to-date certification for this position.

What you will do:

• Define and own the end-to-end solution architecture for Workday Financials across GL, AP, AR, and Financial Reporting
• Translate business requirements into scalable, efficient system designs aligned with best practices
• Provide architectural design leadership across configuration, integrations, data, and reporting
• Design and govern financial processes, including chart of accounts, workflows, and reporting frameworks
• Act as the primary liaison between internal stakeholders and third-party implementation partners, ensuring alignment and delivery quality
• Lead solution design reviews, ensuring consistency, performance, and compliance with enterprise architecture standards
• Support testing strategy (SIT/UAT), ensuring traceability to requirements and resolution of defects
• Identify risks, dependencies, and optimisation opportunities across the programme lifecycle

Required skills/experience:

• Proven experience as a Solution Architect or Lead Functional Architect on Workday Financials implementations
• Deep functional expertise across General Ledger, AP, AR, and Financial Reporting
• Strong experience designing end-to-end finance solutions within Workday
• Experience of Prism Accounting Centre and its architectural integration into finance processes
• Demonstrated experience with financial data migration strategies, governance, and reconciliation
• Engage both technical and non-technical audiences

Desirables:

• Experience within financial services organisations
• Exposure to large-scale transformation or ERP programmes
• Familiarity with integration architecture (e.g., APIs, middleware) within the Workday ec

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.