Workday Financial Manager

The role

The Finance Systems Engineering Manager will serve as the primary System Administrator for Workday Financials. This person will drive platform optimisation, automate manual workflows, and ensure reliable data and reporting.

What you will do

• Serve as the primary System Administrator for Workday Financials
• Prioritise and manage incoming change requests and support tickets
• Ensure reporting for management and statutory alignment with accounting standards
• Review and recommend new ways to reduce complexity and automate workflows
• Produce technical playbooks, end-user documentation, and training initiatives
• Ensure current integrations are compliant and improved upon
• Work on future projects including new shares tool and FP&A tool
• Enforce segregation of duties processes and system audit trails
• Oversee maintenance, vendor relationships, and SLAs for 3rd-party system integrators

Required qualifications

• Workday Financial knowledge and experience, including WD expenses module, integrations for Banks, FX and others
• Engineering excellence, coding, processing understanding and redesigning
• Ability to collaborate across various teams including People, Engineering, and Security
• Systems implementation, configuration, development and support
• Business process analysis and a flexible approach
• Passion for providing an excellent end-user experience and automation
• AI-Curious: understand how to prompt LLMs, use APIs, and deploy AI agents
• Self-motivating and able to work in a fast-paced environment with competing deadlines
• Ability to build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Advanced Excel, database and programming

Nice to have

• Accounting knowledge, maybe someone who is a Part Qualified or Qualified Finance professional
• Experience in a Systems role in an SME enterprise
• Worked within the software SaaS industry previously

Benefits

• Industry's most generous employee share package

About the company

Thought Machine develops core and payments technology that runs natively in the cloud to replace legacy banking technology. The company has more than 550 individuals across global offices.