Workday Finance Product Analyst - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

Financial Conduct Authority; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 57,000 - 89,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial regulatory body in the UK seeks a Workday Finance Product Analyst for a 12-month fixed term contract. The role involves collaborating with various stakeholders to enhance financial processes within the Workday ERP system. Ideal candidates will have experience with Workday Finance systems, strong project management skills, and excellent communication abilities. This role includes hybrid working and numerous benefits like healthcare and a competitive pension plan.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Private healthcare

Non-contributory pension scheme

Career advancement opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven ability to define and deliver impactful changes that enhance financial processes.
• Experience producing comprehensive project lifecycle deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Forge strong partnerships with key stakeholders to understand their business needs.
• Provide expert development and support across the Workday Finance suite.
• Maintain and optimise critical system integrations with Workday.

Skills

Experience implementing Workday Finance systems

Excellent communication skills

Project management experience

Tools

Workday

Salesforce

Adaptive Planning

Job description

Workday Finance Product Analyst – 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

Division – Data, Technology & Innovation

Department – Enterprise Resource Planning

Salary - National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £52,400 to £80,600 and London from £57,700 to £88,600 per annum (salary offered will be based on skills and experience)

About the FCA

The FCA regulates the conduct of 45,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive.

At the heart of what we do is ensuring financial markets work smoothly for individuals, businesses and the wider economy protecting vulnerable consumers from scams, unfair lending and unsuitable financial products.

Join our dynamic ERP Product Group DevOps team and play a key role in driving impactful change within our Workday ERP system. You’ll collaborate closely with a talented mix of Product Owners, Service Managers and Architects in a forward-thinking environment that values innovation and teamwork. In this role, you’ll support business owners and subject matter experts to deliver meaningful improvements to our Workday Financials systems and operations helping shape the future of our financial processes.

What will you be doing?

• Forge strong partnerships with key stakeholders to understand and champion their business needs, ensuring solutions truly add value
• Spot new opportunities to maximise the potential of Workday Cloud services, delivering solutions that align with both business goals and technical requirements
• Provide expert development and day-to-day support across the full Workday Finance suite including Financials, Revenue Management, Projects, Procurement and more—to keep operations running smoothly
• Play an active role in shaping the ERP Product Group’s DevOps model, delivering seamless, user-focused solutions that empower our teams
• Maintain and optimise critical system integrations with Workday, leveraging automated transfers, scheduled tasks and manual imports to ensure data flows effortlessly
• Collaborate with diverse teams to continuously enhance processes, driving innovation and efficiency within our Workday Financials environment

What will you get from the role?

• Make a real difference by helping protect millions of people from unfair financial practices and ensuring markets work for everyone
• Join a forward-thinking organisation with a strong, ongoing pipeline of Workday improvement projects where your input will directly shape the future of our ERP Finance solution
• Apply and expand your deep expertise in Workday Finance while sharpening your analytical and problem-solving skills in a dynamic environment
• Thrive in a high-energy, supportive team culture that’s dedicated to continuous learning, growth and collaboration
• If you’re seeking a varied, impactful role that offers career advancement and the chance to innovate within a leading financial organisation, we want to hear from you!

Which skills are required?

• Experience implementing and configuring Workday Finance systems, with a proven ability to define and deliver impactful changes that enhance financial processes
• Experience producing comprehensive project lifecycle deliverables including business requirements, functional specifications, process flows, use cases and traceability matrices to ensure successful project execution

Essential

• Excellent communication skills for presentations, workshops and business reporting, combined with strong stakeholder management across all business levels
• Project management experience, ideally with formal qualifications in methodologies such as Prince2, RUP, Scrum, Agile or similar
• Experience with Workday integration alongside other IT systems like Adaptive Planning, Salesforce or Clarizen is highly desirable; Workday Pro Track qualification is also a plus but not essential

Benefits of working at the FCA

• 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays
• Hybrid working (work from home up to 60% of your time)
• Private healthcare with Bupa
• A non-contributory Pension of at least 8% of basic salary each month (there are several contribution levels that increase depending on your age – up to 12% a month once you reach age 35)
• Life assurance of eight times your basic salary
• Income protection

We also have a competitive flexible benefits scheme which gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifestyle.

We are a Disability Confident Employer; therefore, disabled people or individuals with long-term conditions who best meet the minimum criteria for a role will go through to the next stage of the recruitment process.

We welcome applications from candidates who are looking for flexible arrangements.