Workday Finance Implementation - Solution Architect in London

emagine is a high-end professional services consultancy and solutions firm specialising in providing business and technology services to the financial services sector. We power progress, solve challenges and deliver real results through tailored high-end consulting services and solutions. We have created a culture of openness and integrity by building genuine and strong relationships and partnerships, enabling us to be uncompromising in our dedication to delivering the optimal service for our clients. Our commitment is not just towards our clients but we aim to foster a positive and equitable working environment with our consultants and colleagues which stems from our core values: Confident, Dedicated, Responsible, Genuine.

We are seeking a skilled Solution Architect with a strong background in data analytics to join our team focused on enhancing finance capabilities via the Workday platform. The successful consultant will play an integral role in driving transformation within the finance domain, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles, and exploring opportunities for continuous improvement within the Workday technology environment.

Main Responsibilities

• Contributing to the development and delivery of various functionalities within the Workday platform.
• Documenting technical architecture designs to support finance capabilities.
• Overseeing implementation and modifications of technical architecture.
• Collaborating closely with engineers to maintain high development standards.
• Promoting re-use of common components and assets.
• Facilitating leadership and mentorship of technical development teams.
• Monitoring the overall progress of Workday technology implementation.
• Ensuring solutions align with business needs through collaboration.

Key Requirements

• Extensive experience in designing and configuring Workday across Integration, Prism, Accounting Centre, Financial Management, and Reporting.
• Comprehensive understanding of Workday security approaches and techniques.
• Experience in at least one end-to-end implementation of the Workday platform.
• Familiarity with building within Azure cloud services.
• Experience in Continuous integration and automated deployments in Azure DevOps.
• Full life cycle development experience.
• Knowledge of design patterns and practical application.
• Ability to document solution designs effectively.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, systems analysis or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Workday specific accreditation (e.g., Workday Pro).

Nice to Have

• Exposure to diverse technologies and processing environments.
• Excellent interpersonal skills including teamwork and negotiation.
• Strong analytical and technical abilities.
• Proficient written and verbal communication skills.
• Knowledge of business process re-engineering principles.
• Capability to assess both long-term and short-term perspectives of projects.
• Ability to apply multiple technical solutions to address business challenges.
• Quick comprehension of new technologies and their capabilities.

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working. As your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle, from strategy to implementation. This will provide you with a broad base of experience from which to build an outstanding career.

We pride ourselves on:

• Providing our people with a supportive culture, rooted in our values and driven by our purpose.
• Promoting a culture of inclusion, collaboration, well-being, and learning and development.
• Providing increased agility and flexibility within our hybrid working model.
• Investing in employees’ growth through ongoing training and development.
• Autonomy to take ownership of projects, making decisions and demonstrating individual expertise.
• Providing a transparent performance and career management experience.

Our consultants are integral to delivering successful consulting engagements, addressing our clients’ most pressing business challenges, and building lasting value in disciplines such as:

• Solve sophisticated, ambiguous business, change and technology problems, bringing structure and meticulous analysis and planning, acting, and taking decisions with little strategic direction.
• Build, develop and sustain trusted senior client relationships in the C-suite by remaining highly attuned to client needs.
• Drive, enable and support the business, partnering with our leaders, clients, and consultants across our practices to take the best of emagine to our clients through opportunity identification/qualification, solution development/presentation.

Interested? At emagine, we are committed to building an international and diverse team by embracing our different backgrounds. If you are up to the challenge and would like to find out more, get in touch with us immediately. Our internal recruitment team is always keen to hear from dynamic individuals that are looking to further their career and explore their full potential.

emagine is an equal opportunity employer, and employment practices are based strictly on merit. It is the policy of the Company to give equal opportunity in employment regardless of sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, religion or ethnic origin.