Workday consultant

Workday Financial Consultant

We are looking for a dedicated Workday Financial Consultant. If you are interested, please send your updated resume to for further discussion.

Local to New Jersey or Cary, NC or Tampa, FL only.

• Minimum 8+ years as a Workday consultant or finance analyst.
• Experience with Workday Accounting Center, including accounting rules, journal entries, event processing, and reconciliation.
• Deep knowledge of Workday Financial Management modules.
• Strong understanding of Workday Reporting (Advanced Reports, Composite, Matrix, Workday Prism).
• Solid grounding in accounting principles (GAAP, STAT).
• Understanding of multi-entity, multi-currency consolidations.
• Experience with audit, compliance, and controls (SOX, internal controls, statutory reporting).
• Managed multiple Workday releases and enabled uptake of new features.
• Strong expertise in Workday Studio, RAAS, WQL, SOAP/REST API.

• Prefer candidates with finance data hub / integration exposure (not just pure Workday config).
• Support Chart of Accounts extraction, accounting rules, allocations, and financial reporting structures.
• Drive data conversion and validation activities, including open balances.
• Collaborate with integration teams to ensure seamless connectivity between Workday and external systems (Azure Databricks).
• Develop and test Workday reports, dashboards, and analytics for Finance leadership.
• Manage business process configuration (approvals, workflows, controls) to align with compliance and audit needs.
• Perform system testing (unit, end-to-end, UAT support), defect resolution, and cutover planning.
• Work closely with Workday Solution Architects to ensure design consistency and scalability.
• Provide knowledge transfer, training, and documentation for finance super-users and business teams.
• Ensure regulatory and compliance alignment (SOX, GAAP, IFRS) in Workday configurations.
• Support post go-live stabilization and hyper care, ensuring smooth adoption of Workday Finance.
• Manage Workday periodic releases and provide customers insight into new features and deprecated features and work with teams to solution the same problem.

• Stakeholder management – engaging CFOs, Controllers, Finance leadership.
• Excellent communication & presentation skills for business and technical audiences.
• Strong project management and Agile/Scrum methodology experience.
• Change management skills – guiding adoption of new Workday processes.
• Mentoring/leading functional consultants and developers.