Workday FSI Financials Lead Consultant

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As an Workday FSI Financials Lead Consultant at Kainos, you will lead a finance workstream and take responsibility for the quality of its design, configuration and delivery. You will work directly with customer finance teams, turn sector requirements into practical Workday solutions and guide consultants through implementation. You will also strengthen our sector capability through tested model-tenant scenarios, reusable delivery assets and contributions to customer demonstrations.

The initial emphasis is insurance, including carriers, brokers and reinsurers, with opportunities across wider financial services. Your core specialism will be Financials, preferably record to report and FDM, supported by collaboration with data, integration and Accounting Center specialists.

Key responsibilities

Lead workstream discovery and design workshops. Understand the customer’s accounting processes, reporting needs and controls, document requirements and acceptance criteria, and identify decisions requiring architectural input.

Design and configure your Financials area, including business processes, accounting rules, worktags and reports as relevant to your specialism. Align detailed choices with the agreed FDM and overall solution.

Apply FSI understanding to real business scenarios. In insurance, trace premium, claims, commission or reinsurance flows through source data, accounting, reconciliation and reporting with the relevant specialists.

Own workstream deliverables, estimates and short-term plans. Allocate and review consultant tasks, track dependencies, communicate progress and escalate scope, quality or delivery risks early.

Define source mappings, accounting requirements and control totals with integration, Prism Analytics and Accounting Center teams. Validate outputs and ensure exceptions, corrections and reconciliation are covered.

Build prototypes and configuration documentation; prepare and execute tests, investigate defects, and support customer user acceptance testing. Include business exceptions and reporting evidence alongside standard transactions.

Support data migration, cutover rehearsals and go-live readiness, including opening balances and reconciliation. Provide training, operating procedures and handover to customer and support teams.

Build and maintain sector recipe cards, test packs and model-tenant scenarios. Record assumptions and test evidence, and make each asset’s readiness and limitations clear to colleagues.

Support presales workshops and demonstrations with the architect and sector team. Coach consultants, share delivery lessons and identify opportunities to improve processes and use approved automation.

Working relationships and accountability

You will work with the solution architect, project manager, capability leader, FSI sector team and specialist consultants. You own the quality and completion of your workstream. The architect resolves decisions affecting the overall solution, while the project manager coordinates the programme plan and budget. Sector contributions will be planned alongside customer delivery commitments.

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