DUTIES
System Ownership: Serve as the primary System Administrator for Workday Financials, driving end-to-end platform optimisation, focusing on exploiting AI, and driving new features/functionality adoption to improve operations.
Ticket & Stakeholder Governance: Prioritise, manage incoming change requests and support tickets in collaboration with related teams.
Reporting & Hierarchy: Ensure reporting for management, statutory aligned with latest accounting standards and structure in line with how the business is set up.
Optimising Business Processes: Review all existing business processes and recommend new ways to do things, reducing complexity, automating manual workflows and driving improvements with AI lead change.
Enablement & Best Practices: Produce clear technical playbooks, end-user documentation, training initiatives, actively participate in the Workday.
Community to leverage best practices and influence product roadmaps.
Integrations: Ensure current integrations are compliant and improved upon.
Future Projects: new shares tool, integration for other banking partners, updating security user groups, consolidating payroll providers and new FP&A tool.
Security & Compliance: Enforce strict segregation of duties processes, system audit trails, to ensure audit readiness, and compliant integrations and renewals.
Application Management: Oversee the ongoing maintenance, vendor relationships, and SLA for all 3rd-party system integrators.
REQUIREMENTS
Essential
Workday Financial knowledge and experience, including WD expenses module, integrations for Banks, FX and others.
Engineering excellence, coding, processing understanding and redesigning.
Someone who enjoys collaborating across various teams within Finance and the wider organisation including the People Team, Engineering, Security and others.
Systems implementation, configuration, development and support.
Business process analysis and a flexible approach with a willingness to constructively challenge existing practices.
A passion for providing an excellent end-user experience and automation.
AI-Curious: understand how to prompt LLMs, use APIs, and excited about deploying AI agents to replace repetitive human processes.
Self-motivating and at home in a fast-paced and rapidly-changing environment with competing deadlines.
Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to deliver desired outcomes for the team and organisation.
Advanced Excel, database and programming.
Desirable
Accounting knowledge, maybe someone who is a Part Qualified or Qualified Finance professional.
Experience in a Systems role in an SME enterprise.
Worked within the software SaaS industry previously.
We actively hire candidates who demonstrate technical excellence in their field and welcome people of all ages and backgrounds, providing everyone with equal access to professional development. You are encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't accurately match the job description. We also encourage applications from those with different abilities, including candidates with ADHD, autism, dyslexia or dyspraxia.
