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About the Role
As the senior design authority on our largest Workday Financials transformations, you will own the end-to-end solution architecture across the full Financials footprint. You'll be part of a team of advisory professionals who deliver integrated, cloud-based ERP solutions that put organizations on the fast track to a better way to work.
Responsibilities
- Owning the overall Workday Financials solution architecture across one or more large-scale, multi-country engagements, ensuring design coherence across the Financial Data Model, accounting and reporting
- Setting the design standards for the programme and acting as the escalation and design-authority point for consultants and clients alike
- Acting as the primary design authority for financials-related functionality within Workday
- Analysing complex business requirements and translating them into robust, scalable Workday Financials solutions
- Defining and governing the solution design for Workday Financials modules such as the General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets and Financial Reporting
- Ensuring adherence to financial regulations and internal controls across the design
- Establishing design standards and leading practices for the programme and its delivery teams
- Identifying opportunities for continuous improvement and system optimisation
- Directing the implementation and enhancement of Workday Financials solutions for end clients
- Managing and guiding multi-disciplinary teams of Workday Financials, Integration and Data consultants
- Active involvement in (pre-)sales activities to shape the right offering for our prospective clients
- Shape solution architectures that make use of Workday's native AI and machine-learning capabilities to drive smarter finance processes
- Apply Accenture's GenAI-enabled accelerators to speed up design, testing and documentation
- Help clients identify where AI can create measurable value across their finance function
- Contribute to Accenture's growing library of AI-powered Workday assets and leading practices
Requirements
- Several full-cycle Workday Financials implementations, owning solution design end-to-end
- A strong finance transformation track record
- Deep expertise across Workday Financials (Record-to-Report, Procure-to-Pay, Contracts-to-Cash), including solution design and reporting
- A design-authority / architecture background, able to define and govern Workday Financials design standards across large programmes
- Familiarity with accounting principles, financial processes and compliance requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Fluency in English
- Ability to meet client travel requirements as needed, and efficiently manage virtual teams and client interactions
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, and can clearly articulate complex messages and requirements
- Experience in ERP and/or Workday Financials, including in a solution architecture or design-authority role
- Workday Finance certification(s)
- Experience in Workday Adaptive Planning
- Experience leading diverse teams onshore, nearshore and offshore
- Fluency in another European language
Skills
- Workday Finance
- Solution Architecture
- Finance Transformation
- Workday Financials (Record-to-Report, Procure-to-Pay, Contracts-to-Cash)
- Solution Design
- Reporting
- Design Standards Governance
- Accounting Principles
- Financial Processes
- Compliance Requirements
- Artificial Intelligence
- Generative AI
- Workday Adaptive Planning
Location
- Europe/UK (any)
Work Type
- Flexible working hours
- Opportunity to work from home
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
Benefits
- Permanent contract
- Individual performance bonus
- Laptop
- Smartphone
- Flexible benefits
- Flexible working hours depending on location
About the Company
- Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services.
- We combine unmatched experience and specialized capabilities across more than 40 industries — powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers.
- With 800.000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture brings continuous innovation to help clients improve their performance and create lasting value across their enterprises.
- Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale.
- We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries.
- Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships.
- We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability.
- Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships.
- We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.
Equal Opportunity
- We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by applicable law.
- Our rich diversity makes us more innovative, more competitive, and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities.