Workday Financials client-side advisory; FDM / chart of accounts, PeopleSoft-to-Workday translation, testing strategy, implementation risk, finance stakeholder guidance, cross-entity alignment, readiness, cutover, and go-live support
Senior-level Workday Financial Management functional experience with strong hands-on implementation depth and the judgment to operate as a client-side advisor.
- Deep knowledge of Workday Financial Data Model (FDM) and chart-of-accounts design, including worktags/dimensions, organizations, account structures, hierarchies, and reporting impacts.
- Experience across multiple Workday Financials implementation phases, including design, testing, issue resolution, readiness, cutover, and stabilization.
- Strong financial and accounting process knowledge sufficient to evaluate the business consequences of Workday design decisions.
- Experience working directly with senior finance leaders and functional users, translating technical Workday concepts into clear business language.
- Ability to constructively challenge assumptions, explain tradeoffs, identify risk, and provide independent recommendations while maintaining a collaborative relationship with the system integrator.
- Strong facilitation, stakeholder-management, analytical, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to build trust and operate effectively across a complex, decentralized, multi-entity organization.