Workday Accounting Centre/Prism Lead

Job Title Workday Accounting Centre/Prism Lead

Location Remote (UK)

Overview / Role Summary Our Client is looking for a Workday Accounting Center & Prism Analytics Lead to take ownership of the end-to-end pipeline that turns high-volume business events into posted accounting in Workday Financials . This is a delivery-focused role spanning Prism ingestion + data modelling , Accounting Center rules/enrichment , and balanced journal generation into the ledger , working directly with Finance stakeholders.

Benefits / Value Proposition

• Contract: 6–12 months (with delivery runway through May 31, 2027 )
• High-impact work on one of the rarest Workday Financials skill sets
• Autonomy to lead a critical workstream end-to-end (not “ticket execution”)

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the Accounting Center design and build: rules, rule sets, transformations, and enrichment to FDM/worktags.
• Ensure balanced journal generation , posting cadence, exception handling, and reprocessing approach.
• Own traceability and audit-ready lineage from source event through to ledger lines.
• Architect Workday Prism Analytics pipelines: ingestion (file/SFTP/API/WDL), staged tables, derived datasets, publishing.
• Implement dataset governance including security (incl. row-level security where required) and performance at scale.
• Translate Finance/Group Reporting needs into platform design, including reconciliation vs source control totals.
• Produce handover documentation/runbooks and build capability within the client team.

Required Experience & Skills

• Required: Proven delivery of at least one Workday Accounting Center implementation through to production (end-to-end).
• Must: Strong Workday Prism Analytics (ingestion, staged/derived datasets, transformations, publishing, security).
• Must: Solid Workday Financials Core knowledge (FDM, worktags, ledgers, journal sources, book codes).
• Necessary: Strong accounting literacy (double-entry, subledger concepts, cut-off, reconciliation).
• Required: Experience handling high-volume transactional data and scaling data pipelines.
• Must: Ability to lead a workstream and engage confidently with Finance stakeholders.

Dealbreakers (Non-Negotiable Requirements)

• You must have delivered Workday Accounting Center to production (not POC, not “exposure”).
• You must have strong hands-on Workday Prism Analytics delivery capability.
• You must be eligible to work in the UK and operate Outside IR35 on a contract basis.
• You must be able to work remotely in UK time zones and start immediately / short notice .
• Workday Certification in Accounting Center and/or Prism Analytics.
• Domain experience in insurance, banking, lending, fintech, retail, subscription billing .
• Workday Integrations experience (EIB, Core Connectors, Studio) and/or Workday Extend .
• Strong SQL and data modelling background (pre-Workday experience).

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