Cognizant Workday Practice is seeking a Principal Data Consultant with experience in Workday Financials. As a Principal Data Consultant, you will guide clients through the transformation, implementation, and operation phases of a Workday Financials implementation, with a focus on data migration, validation, and optimisation.
This role is best suited for self-starters eager to work across a variety of clients and engage in all phases of Workday system implementations. You will join a collaborative, high-performing team within a dynamic and fast-paced transformation consulting practice.
Responsibilities:
- Become a Workday Financials and Data expert, with knowledge of design, configuration, testing, and implementation.
- Partner closely with project teams and clients to deliver high-quality outcomes across all project phases.
- Utilize Workday tools such as iLoad, EIB, Object Transporter, Advanced Load, and Migration Recipe to support tenant-to-tenant migrations.
- Design and develop data tracking, reconciliation, and monitoring tools to support finance data integrity and reporting.
- Map and convert data sources into data conversion templates, ensuring alignment with Workday Financials structures.
- Guide clients through data extraction, cleansing, transformation, and loading, ensuring accuracy and auditability of financial data.
- Support data migration activities, including loading financial data, moving configurations, and aligning with business processes and security models.
- Develop ETL processes and data transformation logic to normalise and improve client finance data.
- Validate and reconcile financial data loaded into Workday, ensuring consistency with source systems.
- Engage regularly with clients throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring a smooth transition from legacy systems to Workday Financials.
- Manage multiple tasks with limited direction while keeping stakeholders informed of progress, risks, and issues.
- Participate in training and internal knowledge-sharing initiatives to continuously develop expertise.
Skills & Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Information Technology, MIS, Finance, or a related field.
- 2–5 years of Workday Financials experience
- Experience with financial data domains, including General Ledger, transactions, and financial reporting structures.
- Experience with data conversion, data migration, and data loading tools within ERP environments is essential
- Exposure to Workday Prism Analytics and reporting (highly desirable).
- Strong experience with Excel and data manipulation.
- Working knowledge of SQL or other data querying tools preferred.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail.
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
- Eligibility for SC Clearance (must have resided in the UK for the last five years and have the right to work in the UK).
Why choose Cognizant:
- Entrepreneurial environment that welcomes your ideas
- Opportunity to do great work
- Outreach programs that support communities and tap into your volunteer spirit
- Learning opportunities to help current needs and advancement
- Global operations, with opportunities in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific
- An abundance of Affinity groups to meet your needs
Cognizant Core Values:
- Work as One: We think beyond roles, relying on each other’s strengths to win as a team.
- Raise the Bar: We always aim for excellence in how we work and what we deliver.
- Dare to Innovate: We push boundaries and take chances to reimagine what’s possible.
- Do the Right Thing: We all lead with integrity and always make the ethical choice.
- Own It: We own the outcomes for our company, colleagues, and community.
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