Workday Functional Specialist

TurleyWay Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous bonus scheme

Job summary

TurleyWay Limited is recruiting an experienced Workday Financials professional to lead a newly formed internal Workday Financials team for a global hedge fund. The role combines technical and functional expertise to deliver end-to-end projects and to support ongoing financial processes.

The successful candidate will work closely with finance stakeholders, own configuration and debugging tasks, and contribute to a growing internal Workday capability with strong career progression and competitive

Qualifications

• Experience with Workday Financials and strong understanding of financial processes.
• Ability to own and deliver projects from start to finish.
• Experience working directly with finance stakeholders.
• Both technical and functional knowledge is required.

Responsibilities

• Join a newly created internal Workday Financials team as the lead functional expert.
• Collaborate with a professional team to build internal Workday capacity.
• Handle day-to-day queries and issues and resolve them.
• Take responsibility for basic configuration and debugging tasks.
• Develop skills for new use cases and contribute to projects.

Skills

Workday Financials

End-to-end ownership

Stakeholder management

Technical knowledge

Financial controls

Tools

FDM

Worktags

Job description

Salary: £100,000 - 100,000 per year

Requirements:

• We are looking for an experienced Workday Financials professional.
• We want someone who has owned and delivered projects from start to finish.
• We need a strong understanding of financial and accounting processes.
• We want experience working directly with finance stakeholders.
• We are looking for someone with both technical and functional knowledge.
• We expect the ability to handle and resolve day-to-day queries and issues.
• We need experience with basic configuration and debugging work.
• We value detailed knowledge in a couple of areas such as the Foundational Data Model (FDM), Worktags, financial accounting configuration, ledger configuration, book codes and account posting.
• We value experience with intercompany, allocations and currency translation.
• We value knowledge of accounts payable and banking fundamentals, including configuration, payment file generation and bank statement integration.
• We value understanding of composite and advanced reporting in Workday.
• We value experience with calculated fields, logical functions, complex CF creation and systematic debugging.
• We value knowledge of the Workday security model, including security groups, domain security and segment-based security.
• We value experience validating security in the build and using Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB).
• We value adaptability and the ability to build new use cases and learn new skills.

Responsibilities:

• We will have you join a newly created internal Workday Financials team as the lead functional expert.
• We will have you work alongside a highly motivated and professional team as we build out our internal Workday Financials capacity.
• We will have you deal with and resolve day-to-day queries and issues.
• We will have you take responsibility for basic configuration and debugging work.
• We will have you build new skills and approaches to new use cases.
• We will have you contribute to financials projects and support our Workday Financials environment.

Technologies:

• Support
• Security
• Matrix

More:

We are a leading global hedge fund building a newly created internal Workday Financials team. This is an exceptional opportunity for an ambitious candidate to join our team as the lead functional expert and help build out our internal Workday Financials capability. We offer a competitive basic salary, a generous bonus scheme, and strong career progression and development within our organisation and the wider Workday ecosystem.

last updated 38 week of 2026