Workday Financials Consulting
Full Link helps finance teams implement, stabilize, and get real answers out of Workday: full-cycle deployments, post-production support, and the reports and dashboards your CFO actually uses.
How we work
Every Workday Financials deployment runs through the same phases. Here's what happens in each, where they usually go sideways, and where we step in.
Fully linked.
Phase 01 · Before the kickoff
Scope, timeline, team, and partner selection. The decisions made here set the budget and the pace for everything that follows.
Where it goes wrong
Finance SME time is underestimated, and the close keeps getting in the way of the project.
Where we come in
We act as finance's advocate: readiness assessment, realistic staffing plans, and backfill so your team can actually show up.
Phase 02 · Design the foundation
Foundation Data Model, worktags, chart of accounts, and business process design. This is the shape your data takes for years.
Where it goes wrong
FDM decisions get made without reporting in mind, and they're expensive to undo after go-live.
Where we come in
CPA-led FDM design, with reporting requirements defined up front so the structure answers the questions leadership will ask.
Worktags drive every report you'll build.
Phase 03 · Build it in the tenant
Configuration, prototype sessions, and iterative data conversion loads, turning design decisions into a working system.
Where it goes wrong
Prototypes run on bad conversion data, so nobody trusts what they see and feedback stalls.
Where we come in
Hands-on configuration and conversion reconciliation, so every prototype is built on data finance recognizes.
Phase 04 · Prove it ties out
End-to-end testing, parallel runs, security, and user acceptance: the last chance to catch problems before they're real.
Where it goes wrong
Test scripts pass, but the numbers never get reconciled to the legacy GL.
Where we come in
Test scenarios written by accountants, and parallel reconciliations down to the penny.
Ties out to the penny.
Phase 05 · Cutover and go-live
Final conversion, opening balances, cutover, and the first close in Workday.
Where it goes wrong
Go-live goes fine, then the first month-end close turns into chaos.
Where we come in
Detailed cutover checklists, hypercare, and a CPA in the room for your first close.
Phase 06 · Life after go-live
Post-production support, semi-annual releases, and the reports and dashboards that make the investment pay off.
Where it goes wrong
The SI rolls off, and reporting gaps get patched with spreadsheets.
Where we come in
Ongoing support and our specialty: reporting and dashboards your CFO actually uses.
Days to close
4
↓ from 9
Manual JEs
-62%
vs. legacy
Reports
38
in use
01 / 06
Plan
Services
Our specialty.
Custom and composite reports, calculated fields, and executive dashboards built by someone who knows what a close actually needs. Numbers that tie out, with no workarounds in Excel.
From design to go-live.
Hands-on help across a full-cycle Workday Financials deployment. We fill the gap between your SI and your accounting team so the design fits how you really close the books.
After the SI leaves.
Ongoing support to keep Workday running and improving: business process tuning, integrations, release reviews, and help through quarter- and year-end.
Why Full Link
Accounting experience means we understand the why behind every journal, allocation, and report, and we speak your controller's language.
The person you meet is the person doing the work. No bait-and-switch, no junior bench learning on your tenant.
Most Workday frustration shows up in reporting. We start where the pain is and make sure the data you depend on is right.
DB
David Brassfield, CPA
President & Lead Financials Consultant
About
Full Link Consulting is a Chicago-based Workday Financials practice founded by David Brassfield, CPA. David has led and supported multiple full-cycle Workday implementations for hedge funds, healthcare organizations, and technology companies.
Before focusing on Workday, David worked hands-on in accounting, and that shows up in the work: business processes that match how finance teams actually operate, integrations that hold up at period-end, and reports people trust.
A 30-minute intro call with no pitch deck. Tell us what's not working and we'll tell you honestly whether we can help.
