Workday Financials Functional Lead

Following the successful implementation of Workday Financials across several geographic regions, Our Client have an exciting opportunity for a Workday Financials Functional Lead to join their team in London. This newly created role will support the deployment of Workday into the remaining global entities, whilst building on the existing functionality, and support existing users.

What you'll be doing

* Support day to day system administration; including security, configuration and design of Workday Financials.

* Maintain and develop business processes across all of Workday Financials and functional areas. Current modules are core financials plus expenses.

* Provide support to end-users of the Workday platform through jira, answering inquiries, resolving issues, and following through on any reported or unresolved issues ensuring a timely and reliable response.

* Collaborating closely with our external Workday consultants and Workday (as appropriate and required) directly and overseeing tickets to conclusion while ensuring accurate change management / testing protocol is followed.

* Engaging with our community, end-users & senior Finance members to assess business needs and translate those needs into effective streamline technical solutions that promote user adoptions.

* Experience holding requirements gathering sessions and documenting outcome, including designing process flow.

* Hands on with the bi-annual compulsory releases, implement new functionality and ensuring a successful delivery is always achieved through diligent planning and testing of processes, configuration and integrations.

* Stay current with industry trends and best practices to identify system improvements and enhancements.

What we're looking for:

* Drive and self-motivation, with the desire and commitment to succeed, deliver excellence and make positive change;

* Relationship building, with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to quickly build rapport;

* Collaboration, able to work well with others across diverse backgrounds to share information, develop skills, and deliver results;

* Resilience with the ability to persist and adapt;

* Smart problem-solving and analytical abilities, with a curious and inquisitive mind, and an openness to new ideas;

* Professional integrity and a respect for company values. Other requirements

* Demonstrable proven experience of having led Workday projects or other Finance systems

* Previous Workday certifications an advantage

* Solid experience in a Workday Analyst role, with strong transactional experience

* Completed multiple system implementation projects with involvement in integrations