Commercial WIP Manager - Workday

TN United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic WIP Manager to facilitate the transition from Maconomy to Workday. This role involves ensuring a seamless transition, testing and validating Workday functionalities, and providing essential support during peak periods. The ideal candidate will collaborate closely with finance teams and lead training sessions, ensuring operational needs are met. With a flexible working model and a commitment to diversity and inclusion, this position offers a unique opportunity to thrive in a supportive environment while making a significant impact on finance operations.

Benefits

25 days annual leave + 1 Volunteer Day

Bupa Healthcare

Enhanced Maternity and Adoption Leave

Flexible Working Model

Matching Pension Structure

Wellbeing and Health Benefits

Season Ticket Loan

Cycle to Work Scheme

Life Assurance

Qualifications

• Prior experience with Maconomy is preferred.
• Self-motivated and efficient in managing repetitive tasks.

Responsibilities

• Manage the transition from Maconomy to Workday.
• Collaborate on data cleansing before transfer dates.
• Provide ad-hoc support during high capacity demands.

Skills

Self-motivated

Methodical approach

Experience with Maconomy

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Posted:

05.05.2025

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19.06.2025

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Job Description:

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced WIP Manager to support the Workday team in the transition from Maconomy to Workday. This role involves testing and validating Workday, ensuring a seamless transition, and providing ad-hoc support for day-to-day tasks during periods of high demand. The successful candidate will work closely with the WPP Workday team, Ogilvy’s lead Systems Accountant, Finance Lead, and the Senior Project Director to ensure that the desired output from the systems is maintained throughout the transition.

Key Responsibilities:

1. System Transition Management: Gain a thorough understanding of the new transactional processes within Workday that relate to Billing and WIP Management. Identify and raise any potential risks associated with the transition to ensure they are mitigated effectively.
2. Data Management: Collaborate with the commercial team to assist in comprehensive data cleansing prior to the data transfer dates.
3. Training and User Support: Attend all Workday training and implementation sessions to stay up to date with system functionalities and updates. Coordinate and attend user testing sessions to ensure that the system meets the operational needs of the users.
4. Ad-hoc Support: Provide ad-hoc support to the Commercial Finance team during periods of high capacity demands to ensure continuity of finance operations. This may include: Billing, Closing down jobs, Chasing timesheets, Liaising with Finance team on supplier set ups, urgent payment requests, timesheet management, and Maconomy queries.

Skills:

• An approachable, efficient person who is self-motivated and works well with both finance and non-finance staff. A methodical approach is required to do this role effectively. The role has a high level of repetitive tasks which need to be tackled with care and attention.
• The ideal candidate would have prior experience with Maconomy.

How we help you Thrive:

• 25 days annual leave (pro-rata) + 1 Volunteer Day
• Bupa Healthcare
• Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Shared Parental Leave
• We have a Flexible Working Model with core working hours: 10am – 4pm
• A 1.5:1 Matching Pension Structure
• Wellbeing and Health: Up to £25.00 per month towards physical or online exercise class memberships, Unmind membership, LifeWorks tools, annual eye tests, development budgets, and wellbeing activities throughout the year.
• Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work Scheme
• Life Assurance

Our ambition is to attract the very best diverse talent to Ogilvy, and to be the employer of choice in the UK. We want everyone to feel welcome when they join us, and once they’re here, for them to want to stay with us, grow their career, and to feel they belong with us.

We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to creating an inclusive, welcoming environment for anyone who wants to work at Ogilvy. We believe that for creativity to flourish, diversity must be at its core. Your race, colour, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, or veteran status have no bearing on our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know, and we will do everything we can to accommodate.

At Ogilvy, our people are at the heart of what we do: a creative agency that sparks game-changing ideas across culture and business through collaboration, integrity, and a celebration of self-expression.

We believe in building powerful teams with purpose. This means hiring and nurturing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, abilities, sexual orientations, and gender identities – and we relentlessly curate transformative initiatives that make our commitment to fairness and equity a reality.

Our ultimate mission is to leave a positive impact on the world, creating a better future for all, while supporting and uplifting the global communities we serve. This is central to our mantra of Borderless Creativity.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.