# Principal Functional Consultant (P5)

**Company**: Workday
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are looking for a Principal Functional Consultant (P5) to join our Financial Consulting team. As a Principal Functional Consultant, you will take a lead role on project engagements, taking ownership of core functional finance workstreams across complex end-to-end Workday Financial Management implementations.

Responsibilities:

- Take a lead role on project engagements, taking ownership of core functional finance workstreams across complex end-to-end Workday Financial Management implementations.

- Act as a trusted advisor to key financial stakeholders, driving solution design workshops, configuring robust system setups, and guiding customers through key project milestones while mentoring junior team members.

- Complete or refresh your Workday Core Finance Certification and obtain advanced Specialist Certifications across key modules within your first 3 months.

- Take immediate ownership of primary Finance workstreams on active deployments, acting as the primary functional expert during discovery and configuration phases.

- Work closely with cross-functional project leads, including Data, Integration, and Technical Consultants, to architect seamless touchpoints across the entire solution delivery landscape.

Requirements:

- 10+ years of functional consulting experience, either as an Internal Consultant or with a Consulting/Software company, focused on enterprise financial management applications.

- 6+ years of hands-on experience implementing or configuring Workday Financials (Core Financials, FDM, General Ledger, AP/AR, Assets, Banking, or Revenue).

- Deep understanding of corporate financial accounting, multi-currency operations, and statutory reporting frameworks within the UKI region.

- Fluency in English.

Nice to Have:

- Demonstrated ability to build trust with finance leaders and functional SMEs, constructively challenging legacy processes in favor of modern, standardized SaaS workflows.

- Strong business analysis, requirements gathering, and workshop facilitation skills with an ability to present technical configurations clearly to non-technical stakeholders.

- Proven capability to mentor junior team members and review configuration quality across sub-workstreams.

- Experience in the UKI public sector across both the sales cycle and implementation is preferred.

Benefits:

- Flexible work schedules aligned to our "flex model"

- Empower you to follow your desired career path & achieve professional and personal goals

- Encourage work-life balance and wellbeing

- Proud to champion equal opportunities for everyone

## Skills

### Required
- Workday Financials
- Financial Management
- Functional Consulting
- English

### Nice to have
- UKI public sector
- Sales cycle
- Implementation

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