Custom Software Engineer

Project Role : Custom Software Engineer
Project Role Description : Develop custom software solutions to design, code, and enhance components across systems or applications. Use modern frameworks and agile practices to deliver scalable, high-performing solutions tailored to specific business needs.
Must have skills : Workday Core Compensation
Good to have skills : NA
Minimum 7.5 year(s) of experience is required
Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education

Summary
Hands-on Workday delivery owner who ships finance outcomes on Workday Financials and connects Workday to the enterprise ecosystem using Workday Integrations.

Role and Responsibilities

Act as a trusted advisor to CFO/Controller/Finance Ops—framing options, impacts, and trade offs in clear business terms lead executive level design decisions
Lead end to end functional architecture for Workday Financials, ensuring cohesive design across finance pillars and consideration of cross functional impacts
Facilitate design workshops / architect sessions, drive requirements, map processes, prototype configuration, and confirm designs with stakeholders.
Validate Workday integrations in Workday and support testing, cutover, and hypercare.
Ensure alignment with HCM, Payroll, Integrations, Reporting/Analytics, Data Conversion, and Change/Training workstreams maintain cohesive structures and communications.
Enable reporting and dashboards in Workday (and Prism Analytics where adopted).
Drive quality through reconciliation, controls validation, and production readiness.

Prerequisite — Agentic AI & GenAI
Implement Finance agents for close, AP/AR exception handling, spend compliance, and policy Q&A—connected to Workday Financials
Build RAG for Finance (controls, policies, contract clauses) with strict access boundaries integrate approvals and audit-ready evidence capture.
Drive end to end delivery of Workday s AI-powered solutions, including Workday AI Agents designed to automate tasks, surface insights, and interact autonomously with enterprise workflows.
Extend designs to adjacent processes (Procurement, Banking & Settlement etc. touchpoints) without breaking governance.
What you'll bring
Worked on AI projects and delivered outcomes
13+ years implementing Workday Financials with depth in Workday Financials.
Hands-on Workday Finance delivery working knowledge of Integrations and Analytics
Comfortable engaging finance stakeholders and driving decisions on scope and trade-offs.
Quality-first mindset for auditability and close readiness.

Workday HCM modules
Deep: Architects, designs, and governs enterprise Workday Financials solutions—spanning Core Financials and related pillars (e.g., Foundation Data Model (FDM), Accounting Center, Banking & Settlements, Budgets/Planning, Procurement, Customer Accounts, Assets, Grants/Projects, Reporting).
Breadth: Workday Integrations fundamentals (Studio/Core connectors/Payroll Connectors) Workday Security Cross-module touchpoints across the Workday modules.

Success looks like
Finance processes configured with reliable integrations and stable reporting.
Reduced defects during close-critical periods through strong controls and testing.
Standardized integration patterns that accelerate enhancements. Secure Agentic Workflows delivered

Additional Information:
A 15 years full time education is required.

15 years full time education

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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