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Role description

Workday Accounting Center Lead Consultant

The Role

UST is seeking an experienced Workday Accounting Center Lead Consultant to lead the design, configuration, implementation, and optimization of Workday Accounting Center solutions. The role works closely with clients and cross-functional teams to translate complex financial and operational requirements into scalable accounting solutions, ensuring accurate financial data processing, accounting automation, and integration with Workday Financial Management. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in Workday Accounting Center, financial data transformation, accounting rules, and enterprise financial systems, along with strong client-facing leadership and project delivery skills.

What You’ll Do

• Lead end-to-end Workday Accounting Center implementations, enhancements, and optimization initiatives.

• Gather and analyze business requirements related to accounting operations, transaction processing, financial data, and accounting automation.

• Design and configure Accounting Center solutions, including accounting rules, transformation logic, validation rules, and accounting event processing.

• Develop and maintain accounting rule sets to support accurate transaction classification, accounting derivation, and journal generation.

• Lead source data mapping, data transformation, and validation activities to ensure financial data integrity.

• Collaborate with Workday Financial Management teams to support integration with the general ledger, journals, and downstream financial processes.

• Design, troubleshoot, and optimize integrations and data flows between source systems and Workday Accounting Center.

• Lead testing activities, including unit testing, system integration testing, user acceptance testing, and reconciliation.

• Identify opportunities to improve accounting processes, automation, controls, and operational efficiency.

• Provide technical and functional leadership to project teams, consultants, and client stakeholders.

• Manage project deliverables, timelines, risks, and issue resolution while maintaining high-quality standards.

• Develop solution documentation, configuration workbooks, process flows, and knowledge-transfer materials.

• Advise clients on Workday Accounting Center best practices, solution design, and implementation strategies.

• Support post-production activities, issue resolution, and ongoing system optimization.

This position description identifies the responsibilities and tasks typically associated with the performance of the position. Other relevant essential functions may be required.

What You Need

Required

• 5+ years of experience in Workday consulting, financial systems implementation, or related enterprise finance technology roles.

• Demonstrated hands-on experience implementing, configuring, or supporting Workday Accounting Center.

• Strong understanding of Workday Financial Management, general ledger, journal processing, and accounting operations.

• Experience designing accounting rules, transformation logic, and transaction-to-accounting processes.

• Experience with financial data mapping, data validation, reconciliation, and troubleshooting.

• Knowledge of integrations between Workday and external financial or operational systems.

• Experience leading client workshops, requirements gathering, solution design, and implementation activities.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver high-quality solutions in a client-facing consulting environment.

Preferred

• Workday Financial Management certification or relevant Workday Accounting Center training.

• Experience leading Workday Accounting Center implementations from design through deployment.

Location & Compensation

Compensation can differ depending on factors including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, education, and level of experience. UST provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in various U.S. markets as set forth below.

Role Location: Chicago, IL / Miami, FL

Compensation Range: $140,000 - $190,000

Who We Are

Since 1999, UST has worked side by side with the world’s best companies to make a powerful impact through transformation. Headquartered in the United States, UST is powered by technology, driven by AI, inspired by people, and led by our purpose, we partner with our clients from design to operation. Our AI-driven digital solutions, proprietary platforms, engineering, R&D, products, and innovation ecosystem turn core challenges into impactful, disruptive business outcomes. With deep industry knowledge and a future-ready mindset, we infuse expertise, innovation, and agility into our clients’ organizations—delivering measurable value and positive lasting change for them, their customers, and communities around the world. Together, with 30,000+ employees in 30+ countries, we build for boundless impact—touching billions of lives in the process.

Benefits

Full-time, regular employees accrue a minimum of 10 days of paid vacation per year, receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year), 10 paid holidays, and are eligible for paid bereavement leave and jury duty. They are eligible to participate in the Company’s 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer matching. They and their dependents residing in the US are eligible for medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as the following Company-paid Employee Only benefits: basic life insurance, accidental death and disability insurance, and short- and long-term disability benefits. Regular employees may purchase additional voluntary short-term disability benefits, and participate in a Health Savings Account (HSA) as well as a Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for healthcare, dependent child care, and/or commuting expenses as allowable under IRS guidelines. Benefits offerings vary in Puerto Rico.

Part-time employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year) and are eligible to participate in the Company’s 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer matching.

Full-time temporary employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year) and are eligible to participate in the Company’s 401(k) program with employer matching. They and their dependents residing in the US are eligible for medical, dental, and vision insurance.

Part-time temporary employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year).

All US employees who work in a state or locality with more generous paid sick leave benefits than specified here will receive the benefit of those sick leave laws.

As part of our recruitment process, UST may use AI or automated tools to support activities such as application screening, scheduling, or interview assistance. All hiring decisions are made by our recruitment team. Where applicable law requires it, further notice will be provided separately.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

UST is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law. We will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.

UST reserves the right to periodically redefine your roles and responsibilities based on the requirements of the organization and/or your performance.

Skills

Financial Analysis, Financial Data Transformation, Workday Accounting Center, Workday Financial Management

Benefits

Compensation range: $140,000.00 to $190,000.00 per year

About UST

UST is a global digital transformation solutions provider. For more than 20 years, UST has worked side by side with the world’s best companies to make a real impact through transformation. Powered by technology, inspired by people and led by purpose, UST partners with their clients from design to operation. With deep domain expertise and a future-proof philosophy, UST embeds innovation and agility into their clients’ organizations. With over 30,000 employees in 30 countries, UST builds for boundless impact—touching billions of lives in the process.