10 Workday consultants
Most of the work these Workday consultants describe is Workday Financials architecture, with two HCM specialists and two payroll specialists alongside; eight call their current work independent or contract, and past employers include PwC, Deloitte, Cognizant, KPMG and Sierra-Cedar. Call them when scoping a Financials, HCM or Payroll project, or deciding whether one independent architect can cover a module instead of a full partner team.
Professionals to explore
Ailin X.
LinkedInExperience: Founder And Workday Finance Architect · Qinova Consulting
Ailin X. has been Founder And Workday Finance Architect at Qinova Consulting since 2025 and describes currently deploying global Workday Financials projects as an independent contractor. At PwC Canada, Ailin was Senior Manager - Workday Finance Solution Architect - R2R Product Lead (2024–2025) and Manager, Workday Financials - Record To Report Implementation Architect (2017–2024), a fit for record-to-report design questions.
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Brenda Yost
LinkedInExperience: Workday Payroll Solution Architect · Independent Consultant
Brenda Yost, based in Hawaii, has been an independent Workday Payroll Solution Architect since 2020. Brenda held Solution Architect - Payroll titles at Accenture (2020) and Sierra-Cedar (2013–2020), with Managing Consultant at Collaborative Solutions, LLC (2012–2013), and fits questions on payroll design and implementation planning.
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Chris Cox
LinkedInExperience: Independent Workday Financials Architect Consultant · ClearPath Cloud Consulting
Chris Cox works as Independent Workday Financials Architect Consultant at ClearPath Cloud Consulting (since 2025) and held Manager, Workday Financials Architect & Team Lead (2024–2025) and Senior Principal Consultant (2022–2024) titles at Cognizant, plus Senior Consultant (2021–2022) and Consultant (2018–2021) at Deloitte. In Chris's own words, the experience spans Spend Management, Procure-to-Pay, Financial Accounting, Grants Management and FDM, which makes Chris a fit for procure-to-pay and grants configuration questions.
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David Brown
LinkedInExperience: Independent Workday Consultant · Self-employed
Workday HCM is David Brown's lane: Independent Workday Consultant (self-employed) since 2017, described as delivering consulting to Workday customers across the HCM platform, and Workday HCM Senior Consultant at DayNine (acquired by Accenture) from 2013 to 2017. Based in Detroit, David suits questions on HCM configuration choices for organizations in different industries.
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Dominic DeRosa
LinkedInExperience: Workday Consultant · Independent Consultant
Dominic DeRosa's independent Workday Consultant work since 2017 covers guiding clients through designing and configuring Workday, with Dominic naming HCM, compensation, advanced compensation, security, data conversion, talent and reporting. Dominic was also Workday Solution Architect at Tesla (2016–2017), Workday HCM Manager, Advisory at KPMG (2013–2016) and Workday Consultant at Meteorix (2012–2013), so Dominic fits questions on compensation, security and data conversion.
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Joseph E. Preston
LinkedInExperience: Workday Financials Solution Architect Independent · Preston, Edwards & Associates, LLC
Joseph E. Preston has been Workday Financials Solution Architect Independent at Preston, Edwards & Associates, LLC since 2019 and describes Workday work with multinational companies, government, universities and nonprofit clients as project manager, team lead and senior consultant. Joseph also held Project Manager and Sr. Workday Financials at Navigator Management Partners (2019) and Principal Financials Consultant at Sierra-Cedar (2016), a fit for questions on Financials projects for government, university and nonprofit clients.
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Julie Christenson
LinkedInExperience: Former Director (Workday Advisory, Implementations, Business Development) · PwC
A Workday Certified Deployment Consultant for Financials, Procurement, Projects/Billing, PM and Acctg Center, Julie Christenson has worked as Consultant Advisor (Workday Implementations & Optimization -- Financials, PSA, Full Platform) since 2016. Julie held Director (Workday Advisory, Implementations, Business Development) at PwC (2014–2016), the matching Manager title at Deloitte (2012–2014) and First Vice President (Oracle ERP Finance Transformation Shared Services) at SunTrust (2008–2012); questions on full-platform scope fit.
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Kerry Remulla
LinkedInExperience: Workday Financials Project Manager Consultant SME - Contract · Independent
Kerry Remulla has worked on contract as Workday Financials Project Manager Consultant SME (independent) since 2017, including project manager work on a global Workday Financial system implementation. At Cushman & Wakefield, Kerry held Workday Finance Report Writer Project Administrator Solution Support (CoE) (2015–2016), Workday Finance CoE of US - East Region (2016) and Senior Financial Analyst (2012–2016), a mix that fits questions on post-production support and a Workday finance CoE.
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Mark Way
LinkedInExperience: Workday Financials Architect · MGW Solutions
Mark Way's MGW Solutions title, Workday Financials Architect since 2015, comes with a stated focus on Workday Finance design and architecture for PSA, revenue, projects and resource management, plus CPA and PMP credentials. Mark also held Senior Director, IT Solutions Architect at RSM US LLP (2021–2023), Manager, Workday Financials at Alight Solutions (2019–2021) and Senior Workday Consultant at Collaborative Solutions, LLC (2015–2019), suiting questions on projects and revenue setup in Workday.
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Ray Nahlen
LinkedInExperience: Independent Sr Workday Payroll, Absence, Time Tracking Consultant · Nahlen Consulting
Payroll, absence and time tracking are the modules in Ray Nahlen's title, Independent Sr Workday Payroll, Absence, Time Tracking Consultant at Nahlen Consulting (since 2021). Ray was also Payroll Managing Consultant at TopBloc (2020–2021), Senior Payroll, Abs, Time Tracking Consultant at Alchemy.us (2018–2020) and Sr Principal Consultant at DayNine (acquired by Accenture) (2014–2018), and cites 25 years of HRMS experience across PeopleSoft, SuccessFactors and Workday; payroll and time tracking setup questions fit.
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Choose the right perspective
For Workday Financials, choose by area: Chris Cox for procure-to-pay and grants, Ailin X. for record-to-report, Mark Way and Julie Christenson for PSA and projects, and Joseph E. Preston or Kerry Remulla when project management matters most. David Brown and Dominic DeRosa cover HCM, while Ray Nahlen and Brenda Yost are the payroll specialists.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01Which Workday Financials areas, such as procure-to-pay or record-to-report, should go live first and which can wait for a later phase?
- 02When does an independent Workday architect make more sense than a full implementation partner team?
- 03What payroll parallel testing should happen before the old payroll system is switched off?
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