Workday Services FINS Senior Consultant

WPP is a world leader in marketing services, with deep AI, data and technology capabilities, global presence and unrivalled creative talent. Our clients include many of the biggest companies and advertisers in the world, including approximately 300 of the Fortune Global 500.

Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow.

Why we're hiring :

WPP is at the forefront of the marketing and advertising industry's largest transformation. Our Global CIO is leading a significant evolution of our Enterprise Technology capabilities, bringing together over 2,500 technology professionals into an integrated global team. This Team will play a crucial role in enabling the ongoing transformation of our agencies and functions.

In this role you will be a member of the Workday Services team deploying, supporting and enhancing our existing Workday deployment, this role and team will grow as we further deploy and expand our Workday FINS coverage geographically and capability.

Reporting to the Workday FINS Product Manager this role is responsible for providing senior levels of technical and process expertise across Workday FINs. Working hand in hand with the wider Workday Services and Program team you will build relationships with our process owners, Shared Service Centre, and stakeholders as a source of expertise and support in Workday FINs and integrated applications.

The new Workday Services team deploys and provides post go-live support and enhancement of the Workday solution that replaces some of our core technology and influences our ways of working for many of our colleagues at WPP.

This flagship programme will see Workday deployed across our global landscape to address the technology needs of Finance, Projects, and our People function – so essentially it touches all of our employees to some degree. The key to this programme is that technology is an enabler for change, it's at the heart of what we do, but it's not all of what we do. The people aspects of this programme are vital to its success. This role will help deliver that success on an ongoing basis for many years to come.

What you'll be doing :

• Support ongoing and future deployments of Workday FINS as part of a program team
• Provide mentoring and support to FINS team members as our senior FINS Consultant
• Solution and oversee deployment of Enhancements to our existing FINS deployments
• Diagnose and resolve assigned tickets for Workday FINs and integrated applications
• Investigate any functionality being released / introduced and collaborating with other functional Workday resources
• Maintain expertise on new functionality / features / capabilities in Workday and wider industry / FINs / technology trends
• Accountable for maintaining up-to-date process documentation
• Expert in the art of the possible with Workday and providing creative solutions
• Safeguard global design standards and principles against competing requests for change
• Solution and Develop Enhancements as assigned
• Act as SME for Workday FINS Module
• Train other members of the team on Workday FINS and associated processes

What you'll need :

Skills Required

sme management, Process Documentation, Stakeholder Management