The Workday Financial Reporting & Data Strategy Principal Consultant partners with clients to provide continuous reporting and analytics solutions that enhance their Workday investment. This position is dedicated to optimising Financials data by utilising Workday Report Writer, Calculated Fields, and BIRT. Additionally, the consultant supports clients through every stage of extracting, transforming, and loading of Finance data during a Workday implementation.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead the design, enhancement, and support of complex Workday reports, dashboards, and analytics.
- Serve as a subject matter expert in Workday Finance Reporting, advising clients on best practices and scalable design.
- Translate business requirements into effective analytics solutions through direct collaboration with functional and technical stakeholders.
- Support post go-live environments by resolving issues, delivering enhancements, and managing ongoing reporting needs.
- Assess design options, risks, and downstream impacts, providing clear recommendations aligned to Workday capabilities.
- Mentor consultants and contribute to knowledge sharing to strengthen the Reporting and Analytics practice.
- Support solutioning and proposal development for new and expanding engagements.
- Guide clients through the data extract and cleansing process, including loading customer data, moving configuration from tenant to tenant, and configuring business processes and security.
- Use Workday tools of iLoad, EIB, Object Transporter, Advanced Load, and Migration Recipe to do load data and execute tenant to tenant migrations.

Skills & Requirements

- Extensive hands-on experience with Workday Reporting and Analytics, including complex calculated fields, dashboards, custom reports including matrix and composite reports, and BIRT.
- Experience supporting Workday Financials.
- Proven leadership delivering reporting or analytics solutions for enterprise ERP platforms (e.g., Workday, SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle).
- Background in post-production support, managed services, or long-term client engagements.
- Strong consulting, communication, and stakeholder management skills.




- Ability to effectively manage multiple clients and operate in a dynamic, growing, ecosystem with minimal supervision.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.
- Workday Certification in Finance and Advance Reporting highly desired.
- #LI-Remote

Why choose Cognizant

- Entrepreneurial environment that welcomes your ideas
- Opportunity to do excellent 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.

Cognizant (Nasdaq-100: CTSH) engineers modern businesses. As one of the world’s leading professional services companies, we help our clients modernize technology, reimagine processes and transform experiences so they can stay ahead in our fast changing world. Together, we’re improving everyday life.

Founded in 1994 as a technology development arm of The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation, we were spun off as an independent company in 1996, and have worked closely with large organizations to help them build stronger businesses ever since. Today,



Cognizant engineers modern businesses to improve everyday life, helping some of the world’s most established companies remain the most loved brands. In today’s fast-changing technology landscape, we work with our clients to advance every aspect of how they serve their customers: digitizing their products, services and customer experiences; automating their business processes; and modernizing their technology infrastructures. Cognizant’s Workday practice was formed in 2020 through the acquisition of Collaborative Solutions, a leading global finance and HR transformation consultancy. Our 1,700+ experts provide full lifecycle services—advisory, deployment, and post-production—using our proven, proprietary tools. With headquarters in the US and a rapidly expanding footprint that extends from India and China to Europe, North America, South America and the Middle East, we’re committed to building digital talent all around the globe so everyone can benefit from the full spectrum of human ingenuity. We collaborate locally with clients, in person and in their local languages. We believe that the opportunity presented by technology has never been greater, and because of that opportunity, Cognizant will continue to work with clients to modernize their businesses, making everyday life even better for them, their customers and the communities they serve.

Our Commitment to Inclusion

Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. Your application and candidacy will not be considered based on race, color, sex, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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📌 Workday Financial Reporting & Data Strategy Principal Consultant (City of Sydney)
🏢 Collaborative Solutions
📍 City of Sydney