Workday Consultant

RESPONSIBILITIES

The role will provide general administration assistance as well as technical system support to the finance teams using the Tag 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 and accounting knowledge and experience. Workday Financials/HCM experience 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 of 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 fails

Reconciliation

• Create and maintain reconciliation method between Adaptive and Workday for actuals 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 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 with and at the discretion of your line manager.