Workday Solution Architect

PwC is celebrating a decade of successful Workday project delivery with major UK and global clients. To capitalise on this success, we are currently looking for a Workday Solution Architect to join our established and growing Workday Consulting Team. If you want to take your career to the next level, and apply your skills to challenging and business-focussed customer transformation programmes, then this could be for you. PwC doesn’t simply configure Workday, but treat Workday as a fundamental element of our business transformation services. Our team members create and apply Workday and broader solutions that re-imagine the possible, bringing business value and improved user and customer experience.

What Your Days Will Look Like

• Taking responsibility for the overall solution design of our client facing Workday Financials projects, including design of the Foundational Data Model.
• Ensuring deliverables across the functional, integrations and data workstreams are consistent and of a high quality.
• Working at all levels within our clients’ organisations from C-suite to finance team members to ensure all stakeholder needs are met.
• Significant contributions to business development activities, whether it is delivering demos and discovery workshops or taking responsibility for our technical offering.
• Constant engagement with our Workday PM and EMs to ensure our project delivery and resourcing is aligned with the technical requirements.
• Soliciting and challenging client requirements, presenting and facilitating workshops, analysing data, and configuring solutions in Workday and business analysis.
• Collaborating with your colleagues across our HR and Financials transformation teams, and wider PwC network to identify and create solutions that bring value to our clients.
• Taking responsibility for development of more junior colleagues through career coaching and mentoring.

This Role Is For You If

• You are an experienced finance professional that has either helped deliver Workday Financials within your own organisation, or is an existing user of Workday Financials.
• You have developed an affinity with Workday Financials and are considering a move into technology consulting OR you are an expert in Finance Transformation Consulting as a Solution Architect.
• Workday Financials experience is preferred, but other ERP experience will be considered.
• You have the ability to think beyond technology and understand how to align solutions with strategic business outcomes like revenue growth, cost reduction, and improved customer satisfaction.
• Able to build relationships with senior stakeholders such as chief architects and the Head of Technology and often C-suite executives, becoming a trusted advisor and bridging the gap between technology and business.
• You confidently present architectural visions, solutions, and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• You are proficient in designing and implementing integrations between Workday and other enterprise systems using APIs, middleware and legacy platforms.
• You have strong digital, data and business analysis skills and the ability to work both independently and drive teams to deliver.
• Demonstrable record of managing people, including onshore and offshore resources.

What You’ll Receive From Us

No matter where you may be in your career or personal life, our benefits are designed to add value and support, recognising and rewarding you fairly for your contributions. We offer a range of benefits including empowered flexibility and a working week split between office, home and client site; private medical cover and 24/7 access to a qualified virtual GP; six volunteering days a year and much more.