Lead Workday Finance Functional

Posted on July 29, 2026

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Job Description

Lead Workday Finance Functional – Contractor Role

Overview

  • Experience: 6 to 9 yrs
  • Work Model: Remote
  • Duration: 3 - 6 months extendable
  • Notice Period: Immediate to 15 days
  • Experience: 6 to 9 years

We are seeking a highly experienced Workday Finance Functional Lead to drive large-scale, end-to-end Workday Financials implementations. In this client-facing leadership role, you will be responsible for complex solution design, configuration, and delivery across global deployments. You will act as a trusted advisor, bridging technical capabilities with financial business processes.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead End-to-End Implementations: Act as the Lead Functional consultant on 2+ large enterprise end-to-end Workday Financials implementations, owning hands-on design, solutioning, configuration, and testing.
  • Spend Management & Core Finance: Drive requirements and configuration across P2P (Procure to Pay), GL cycles with deep expertise in: Supplier Accounts/Contracts, Procurement, Financials, AP, Fixed Assets, Banking & Settlement, Inventory, and Integration with other applications.
  • Global & Multi-Country Deployments: Manage complex deployments involving localization requirements (tax, legal, regulatory) across multiple countries.
  • Strategic Problem Solving: Identify strategies, alternatives, approaches, risks, and mitigations to meet business requirements. Assist in testing and resolving complex issues.
  • Methodology & Continuous Improvement: Develop and refine delivery methodologies, contributing to continuous improvements in implementation practices.
  • Pre-Sales & Estimation: Support pre-sales activities, including accurately estimating scope, effort, and resources required to complete projects.

Required Skills

  • Implementation Leadership: Must have acted as Lead on 2 or more Large Enterprise End-to-End Workday Financials implementations with hands-on design, configuration, and testing experience.
  • Core Spend Areas: Proven experience in Spend (Financial, AP, Fixed Asset) and integrations with other applications, specifically:
    • Supplier Accounts / Contracts
    • Procurement
    • FDM (Financial Data Model)
    • Business Assets
    • Banking & Settlement
    • Inventory
  • Global Deployments: Demonstrated experience with global/multi-country deployments, including localization requirements.
  • Risk & Testing: Ability to identify strategies, alternatives, risks, mitigations, and lead testing/issue resolution.
  • Methodology & Pre-Sales: Experience in developing delivery improvements and supporting pre-sales activities (scope/effort/resource estimation).

Preferred Skills

  • Financial & Procurement Roles: Background in financial accounting and procurement roles.
  • Additional Workday Areas: Experience in FDM, Financial Accounting, Budgets, Reporting, Banking, Taxes, Supplier Accounts/Contracts, Procurement, Business Assets, Inventory.
  • Data & Reporting: Hands-on Workday data conversion (EIB, iLoads) and/or report development experience.

Qualifications

  • Workday Certified (Financial Core, Financial Services Practical & Essentials, or Workday P2P)
  • Workday Financial iLoad practical experience
  • Workday Financial Reporting

Other Details

  • Primary Skillset:
    • Workday Finance (Core)
    • P2P (Procure to Pay)
  • Secondary Skillset:
    • Budgets, Reporting
    • Banking, Taxes, Supplier Accounts/Contracts
    • Procurement, Business Assets, Inventory
  • Education / Professional Experience/ Qualifications: Bachelor’s or master’s degree

Required Skills

No specific skills listed.

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