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.