Workday Financials Lead Consultant — Contract Location:
Engagement Type: Contract
Rate: Competitive — Flexible
Start: Within 4-6 weeks
The Role
We are working exclusively with a professional services firm to source a senior Workday Financials Lead Consultant on an initial contract basis. This is a hands-on delivery role sitting within an established Workday Finance Practice, supporting live client engagements across full-cycle implementations.
You will take functional ownership across discovery through go-live, working directly with client stakeholders and internal delivery teams to drive high-quality outcomes across complex Workday Financials programmes.
What You'll Be Doing
Leading end-to-end Workday Financials implementations across all project phases — Discovery, Design, Configuration, Testing, Data Conversion, and Go Live. You will act as the functional SME across core Finance modules, providing guidance to both clients and junior consultants. Driving requirements gathering and solution design workshops with senior client stakeholders. Managing configuration across multiple Workday Finance workstreams simultaneously. Supporting data migration activities and UAT cycles. Providing subject matter expertise across the full Workday Financials suite.
Module Coverage Required
Procure to Pay (P2P), Supplier Management, Expenses, Banking, Business Assets, Budgets, Supply Chain Management, Financial Services.
What We're Looking For
A minimum of 6 + years of hands-on Workday Financials experience, with at least 5 full-cycle implementations delivered on the partner or consulting side. Strong functional depth across the modules listed above is essential.
Prior experience within a Workday Partner environment is highly preferred.
Excellent stakeholder management and client-facing communication skills. Comfortable operating autonomously in a fast-moving consulting delivery environment.
Workday Certifications
Workday Core Financials, Procure to Pay (P2P), Launch, Expenses, Banking, Business Assets, Budgets, Supply Chain Management. Multiple active certifications strongly preferred.
Working Arrangements
UK-based. Remote mainly working with flexibility on location. Inside IR35.
Rate is negotiable based on project length and scope.
Why This Role
You will be embedded within one of the most recognised Workday Finance practices in the UK, working on complex, high-profile client programmes. For a Workday Financials specialist who wants serious delivery exposure with a market-leading practice, this is the right seat.