Workday Adaptive Consultant

WORKDAY ADAPTIVE

We help brands stand out and sell more by delivering impactful content, at speed and scale and across channels & geographies. With over fifty years of production experience for some of the world's biggest brands, we partner with our clients to create work that is efficient, effective, and more importantly, tells a story.

We are a dynamic and innovative creative production agency that prides itself on delivering cutting-edge technology solutions.

We believe that the combination of different ideas, experience, backgrounds, and skillsets create a great place to work. We pride ourselves on an authentic culture built around our core values of integrity, innovation, sustainability, growth, and accountability. We are committed to promoting an inclusive, equitable and diverse culture. Our global DE&I committee and our leadership team have committed to increasing representation, education, and accountability across the entire business to create positive change from the ground up and the top down.

RESPONSIBILITIES

The role will provide general administration assistance as well as technical system support to the finance teams using the our Workday AdaptivePlanning tool. Working with teams across 4 regions (Americas, APAC, EMEA, and India) to support their new system requirements and BAU system issues. The successful candidate will need to be proactive and feel comfortable working with various stakeholders (including senior) to deliver new functionality and necessary updates to the current system model. They should be able to analyse requirements, provide guidance on best practice and help to steer the Finance teams to the best system solutions. They will

also work closely with the Group Reporting team to create meaningful reports and dashboards which are adaptable to changes in business operations.

The successful candidate will have strong Excel skills, accounting knowledge, and experience. Experience with Workday Financials/HCM is also preferable.

Role Description

Administration

• Update and create security and functionality access for all users

• Maintain modelling functionality in Adaptive, e.g. levels, dimensions, attributes, accounts, versions, sheets, modelled sheets

• Adaptive HTML and Office Connect report writing

Finance support

• Resolve all finance tickets and issues in a timely manner

• Prepare and deliver training on current and new functionality

• Build and maintain relationships with key finance stakeholders globally

• Perform the monthly/quarterly/annual system tasks as per the Finance timetables

Integration and data loads

• Maintain current integration

• Resolve any integration errors or failures

Reconciliation

• Create and maintain a reconciliation method between Adaptive and Workday for actual data

• Create and maintain reconciliation method between Adaptive and Workday for levels, dimensions, and attributes

System development

• Implement new functionality, e.g,. dashboards, capex models

• Implement new integration, e.g,. data sources, loaders

• Implement new formulae

• Testing of new features and developments

System ownership

• Maintain a relationship with Adaptive support

• Ownership of Adaptive production, sandboxes, and Office Connect

LOCATION

• We currently work in a remote hybrid model with offices in Chennai and Bangalore.

TIMINGS

• We work on rotational shifts that change depending on the region you are working in and at the discretion of your line manager.

Our client is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to a workplace free from discrimination and harassment. Employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, military service, genetic information, or any other status protected by law.