Your role

As a Principal Consultant Workday Financials, you will “bridge the gap” between the business and technical teams by solving complex Workday intersystem problems. You will guide clients through the transformation, implementation, and operation phases of a Workday Financials implementation.

Your team

What makes Cognizant a unique place to work? The combination of rapid growth and an international and innovative environment! This is creating a lot of opportunities for people like YOU — people with an entrepreneurial spirit who want to make a difference in this world.

At Cognizant, together with your colleagues from all around the world, you will collaborate on creating solutions for the world's leading companies and help them become more flexible, more innovative and successful.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a Workday Financials expert with deep knowledge of design, configuration, testing, and implementation focusing on either R2R, P2P, or C2C

• Guide clients through facilitated design sessions and configuration decisions based on best practices and an understanding of the client’s unique business requirements at all stages of the project

• Regularly engage and support the client through all phases of the project, ensuring a smooth transfer from legacy systems to the Workday solution

• Perform multiple tasks under limited direction, while regularly keeping the client, the project team and the Engagement Manager abreast of changes or progress related to the project

• Willingness and ability to take a leadership position on a project

• Act as a mentor to fellow consultants and analysts, including providing support for shadow assignments

• Actively participate in update training and internal opportunities to share one’s skills and learnings with others within the organization

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required or equivalent

• 2+ years of hands-on functional Workday Financials experience

• 8+ years Financial software experience required

• Workday Financials certification, highly desired

• Experience gathering business requirements, designing and prototyping, testing, and implementing practical business solutions under multiple deadlines

• Demonstrated functional experience in Financials Management

• Fluent Dutch and English

Diversity and Inclusion at Cognizant

At Cognizant, we believe diversity and inclusion are at the heart of our ability to execute successfully and consistently over the long term. We recognize that our people are our most important asset. We strive to create an environment where all associates feel comfortable to be themselves, feel accepted and can therefore thrive both personally and professionally. We continue to drive D&I throughout our organization to unlock the insights, imagination and innovation of our associates, as well as reflect the diversity of our clients and communities. We are a Dutch and European Top Employer and continually drive employment recognition and engagement through employee friendly policies and affinity groups such as “Women Empowered”, “Embrace LGBTQ+” and “Race Equality Network”. For more information, see https://careers.cognizant.com/global/en/diversity-and-inclusion