Case Study: Kainos achieves a single source of truth and streamlined HR and finance operations with Workday

Kainos brings finance and HR together to drive growth and efficiency

Kainos is a 31-year-old digital technology firm with more than 1,100 employees, 16 offices and 303 customers worldwide, and is the largest European boutique partner in the Workday ecosystem. The company faced rigid legacy systems that didn’t align with its growth strategy, lacked technical support, and produced slow, error-prone month-end close and reporting processes.

Kainos implemented Workday Financial Management, Procurement, Human Capital Management and Recruiting to create a single platform for finance and HR. The deployment delivered one source of truth, improved reporting and month-end close, and allowed HCM to be live in just 60 days. Operational gains included streamlined entity onboarding, staff refocusing on higher‑value work, managing over 11,000 applications in a year, and scheduling interviews every 35 minutes across the working week.

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