Workday Finance Systems support Analyst

Howden; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 52,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

Howden is seeking a Workday Financials Systems Support Analyst to provide operational support for Workday Financials and Travel & Expenses across Europe. The role is hybrid, requiring 2–3 days in the office, with potential travel linked to the role.

You will work with a team to ensure governance, testing, and smooth deployments of changes. Reading with business users, you will ensure standard designs are applied globally while accommodating country-level localisations.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Workday Financials as a user and/or consultant.
• Solid grounding in accounting principles.
• Experience across Record to Report, Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, AP and AR.

Responsibilities

• Provide third line support for Workday Financials and Travel & Expenses.
• Challenge designs to standard global processes with localisations.
• Coordinate with project team to protect existing design decisions.
• Collaborate with third party partners to manage workload.
• Ensure changes are tested and auditable prior to deployment.
• Support training for deployed countries and release testing.

Skills

Workday Financials proficiency

Accounting fundamentals

Record to Report

Order to Cash

Procure to Pay

Accounts Payable

Accounts Receivable

Prism & Accounting Centre

Stakeholder engagement

Job description

Location: Office Working / Hybrid 2/3 days per week in office

The Workday Financials Systems analyst will provide user support to both the Workday Financials application alongside the Workday T&E application currently in use in our European businesses.

WHO WILL THIS PERSON TYPICALLY REPORT TO?

*Specific reporting line is stated on your contract of employment

Workday Finance Support Analyst

ROLE PURPOSE:

To enable operational support of the recently implemented Workday Financials and T&E. Further countries are in line for deployment later this year and the support workload is expected to increase significantly, with the use of Workday Financials and associated integrations.

The job holder will work alongside existing resources in the team.

Key Accountabilities

As a Workday Financials Systems Support Analyst you will:

• Work with business users to provide third line support of Workday Financials and Travel & Expenses.
• Challenge designs and business requests to ensure a standard design is achieved globally for all Finance systems, allowing for localisations in country
• Work closely with existing project team to ensure any support requests do not break existing design decisions. If they do and are valid, take these to design authority for decisions
• Work with third party support partners to spread workload where necessary and where sensitive information is involved.
• Ensure all changes, fixes are tested and signed of before deployment to ensure full audit trail of changes
• Support new user training for deployed countries where necessary.
• Support half yearly Workday release reviews and testing against existing build.
• Work alongside HCM colleagues who currently manage the main security of the application

Knowledge and Experience

• Proficiency in Workday Financials as a user and/or consultant
• Solid grounding in accounting principles
• Demonstrate knowledge and experience in the following areas in Workday Finance:
  • Record to Report
  • Order to Cash
  • Procure to Pay
  • Accounts Payable
  • Accounts Receivable
  • Prism & Accounting Centre (less important)
• Understanding of/ experience of Insurance Broking
• Experience of a large global programme involving significant business operational change
• Able to build and sustain the confidence of senior level stakeholders.

Policy, Process and Procedures:

• Keep informed of all legal and regulatory developments relevant to the Company/Group
• Interprets instructions and issues arising and then implement actions according to policies and procedures.

Environment, Customer Focus and Relationships:

• Consistently deliver an excellent and comprehensive service
• Develop strong relationships with colleagues, plus key contacts within the business
• Behave with all clients (both internal and external) fairly and ethically

People Management/Personal Development:

• The job holder does not have direct reports.
• Actively undertakes personal development to ensure up to date knowledge and understanding of best practice.
• Remains aware of external, industry, legal and regulatory developments (where this is relevant to the job role) to ensure practice and outputs are of a sufficiently high standard.
• Keeps informed of all legal and regulatory developments relevant to the Operating Entity/Group.

Regulatory and Compliance:

The Board of each Operating Entity requires the highest standards of corporate governance, operational excellence and financial reporting throughout the Group from all its employees/contractors. Specific responsibilities are listed below. Reference to team (below) is only applicable where the job holder has direct line management responsibilities:

• Ensures compliance of self and team (as appropriate if the job holder has line management responsibilities) with all applicable legal, fiscal and regulatory obligations in the form of policies and procedures.
• Ensures correct authorisation is obtained and processes followed when required by the Operating Entity and/or Group.
• Ensures performance, HR and T&C records are up to date and meet the Operating Entity and/or Group's requirements.
• Maintains accurate records and deal with correspondence appropriately.
• Operates in an honest, professional and ethical manner.
• Strictly adheres to the Group Employee Code of Conduct, which also applies to Contractors.
• Completes all relevant regulatory training.
• Ensure they remain competent to carry out role

This role operates a hybrid working pattern of 2 days a week in the office and may have travel linked to the role. Interviews for this role will commence before the end date of this advert.

Note: This job description is not exhaustive and reflects the type and range of tasks, responsibilities and outcomes associated with the role.