# Principal Functional Consultant, oCFO Architect

**Company**: Workday
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: €93,300 EUR - €139,900 EUR
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We’re Workday, a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents. We're looking for a Principal Functional Consultant, oCFO Architect to play a pivotal role in driving finance transformation and continuous innovation for our prospects and customers.

**About the Role** As a Principal Functional Consultant, oCFO Architect, you will partner closely with the extended sales team to accelerate subscription and services growth, owning the high-level solution design and demonstrating Workday's transformational value during complex pre-sales cycles. You will collaborate directly with customer executives, project leadership, and workstream leads to architect end-to-end Financial solutions, ensuring design closure is achieved on time, on budget, and aligned with modern industry best practices.

**Responsibilities**

- Lead cross-functional design decisions using Workday’s guiding principles, business process taxonomy, and emerging AI capabilities to challenge status-quo thinking.

- Facilitate structured decision-making, ensuring that solution recommendations are tightly aligned to customer problem statements, strategic objectives, and next-generation value drivers like automated accounting and predictive insights.

- Lead key pre-sales and post-sales design workshops, constructively challenging partners and customers to embrace digital transformation over legacy replication, and shape post-go-live roadmaps so that customers continue to maximize value and drive innovation through the Workday platform.

**Requirements**

- 7+ years of functional experience in FIN software solutions including 4+ years of implementation consulting or pre-sales solution architecting experience leading digital finance transformations.

- Proven experience supporting sales cycles, scoping complex deployments, and leading end‑to‑end FIN solution design on multi‑country transformation programmes.

- Deep knowledge of Workday Financials, including familiarity with Workday’s AI/ML-driven finance features (e.g., automated ledger entries, anomaly detection, predictive analytics, agents).

- Fluent in English and German.

**Benefits**

- Competitive salary: €93,300 EUR - €139,900 EUR.

- Comprehensive benefits package.

- Flexible work arrangements: spend at least half (50%) of your time each quarter in the office or in the field.

**Workday Pay Transparency Statement (For EU Locations Only)** Listed below is the base salary range applicable to this position. Workday pay ranges (and the precise pay offered to the successful candidate) are based on a number of objective criteria such as relevant experience and skills, and educational qualifications, level of responsibility, demands of the role, work location and business need.

## Skills

### Required
- Workday Financials
- AI/ML-driven finance features
- English
- German
- FIN software solutions
- implementation consulting
- pre-sales solution architecting

### Nice to have
- Transformation & Innovation Leadership
- Sales & Pre-Sales Enablement
- AI & Innovation Stewardship

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