Workday Finance Consultant
Posted Today by Indotronix Avani UK
Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
Swindon, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Workday Finance Consultant and Lead roles involve implementing, optimizing, and supporting Workday Financial Management within a government shared services environment. The Consultant provides expertise in financial processes and system configuration, while the Lead offers technical leadership and oversight, ensuring compliance with government standards. Both roles require collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams and senior stakeholders. The positions are hybrid, based in Swindon, Stockton, and Newport, with flexibility based on business needs.
Key Responsibilities:
- Implement, optimize, and support Workday Financial Management.
- Provide subject-matter expertise across Workday Financials.
- Support business changes, process improvement, and system configuration.
- Act as a trusted adviser to stakeholders.
- Gather, analyze, and document business requirements.
- Produce high-quality functional specifications.
- Collaborate across multi-disciplinary teams and with senior stakeholders.
- Support or deliver testing activities within an ERP or SaaS environment.
- Provide technical leadership and oversight for Workday Financials solutions.
- Supervise and mentor other consultants and analysts.
- Ensure solutions are robust, scalable, and aligned to government standards.
Key Skills:
- Experience with Workday Financial Management in configuration, implementation, or support roles.
- Understanding of end-to-end finance processes within complex organizations.
- Ability to gather, analyze, and document business requirements.
- Experience working collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience in testing activities within ERP or SaaS environments.
- Experience in structured delivery environments, such as Agile or hybrid methodologies.
- Technical leadership and oversight experience within ERP or SaaS environments.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Experience supervising, mentoring, or coaching other consultants or analysts.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Swindon
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
We are hiring for Workday Finance Consultant and Lead Roles
Role : Workday Finance Consultant
Location: Hybrid working with office-based at Swindon, Stockton and Newport, with flexibility depending on business need
Job type: Permanent
About Role
The Workday Finance Consultant plays a key role in the implementation, optimisation, and ongoing support of Workday Financial Management within a complex government shared services environment.Working as part of a multi-disciplinary delivery team, you will provide subject-matter expertise across Workday Financials, supporting business changes, process improvement and system configuration. You will act as a trusted adviser to stakeholders, ensuring solutions are robust, compliant and aligned to UKSBS and government standards
Essential Skills, Knowledge and Experience
- Demonstrable experience working with Workday Financial Management in a configuration, implementation or support role
- Strong understanding of end-to-end finance processes within a complex organization
- Ability to gather, analyze and document business requirements and produce high-quality functional specifications
- Experience working collaboratively across multi-disciplinary teams and with senior stakeholders
- Excellent written and verbal communication skill
- Experience supporting or delivering testing activities within an ERP or SaaS environment
- Experience of working within a structured delivery environment, such as Agile or hybrid methodologies, using issue-tracking and ITSM tools
Role: Workday Finance Lead
Location: Hybrid working with office-based at Swindon, Stockton and Newport, with flexibility depending on business needs
Job type: Permanent
About the role:
The Workday Finance Lead is a senior specialist role providing technical leadership and subject-matter expertise across Workday Financial Management within a complex government shared services environment. In addition to hands-on configuration and delivery, you will provide direction, assurance, and oversight for Workday Financials solutions; support and supervise other consultants and analysts; and act as a senior point of escalation for complex issues. You will work closely with programme leadership, architects, system integrators and senior stakeholders to ensure solutions are robust, scalable and aligned to government standards
Essential Skills, Knowledge and Experience
- Significant experience working with Workday Financial Management in a senior configuration, implementation or support role.
- Deep understanding of end-to-end finance processes within large, complex organisations.
- Proven experience providing technical leadership, assurance or oversight within ERP or SaaS environments.
- Strong experience gathering, validating and translating complex business requirements into functional designs.
- Experience supervising, mentoring or coaching other consultants or analysts.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence at senior levels.
- Experience working within structured delivery environments, such as Agile, SAFe or hybrid methodologies, using issue-tracking and ITSM tools