Workday Lead – Finance Full Time NEW

Role: Workday Lead – Finance
Location: Hybrid – Swindon, Newport or Stockton-on-Tees
Salary Expectations: £ 66,000 + Excellent benefits

The Role:
The Workday Lead – Finance is a senior specialist role providing technical leadership and subject-matter expertise across Workday Financial Management within a complex government shared services environment.

Responsibilities:
• Act as a senior Workday Financials authority, providing technical leadership across modules such as General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Expenses, Assets, Projects and Financial Reporting.
• Define and promote best practice for Workday Financials configuration, design and support across the team.
• Provide technical assurance and peer review of designs, configurations and changes delivered by colleagues, system integrators and third parties.
• Support architectural decision-making and contribute to roadmap planning for Workday Financials.
• Delivery & Continuous Improvement
• Lead and contribute to the design, configuration and implementation of complex Workday Financials solutions.
• Oversee enhancements, releases and regulatory changes, ensuring quality, compliance and auditability.
• Drive business process improvement and standardisation in line with shared services and government best practice.
• Oversee ticket queue management across the AMS team, ensuring workload is prioritised effectively and resources are aligned to demand.
• Enforce SLA/KPI frameworks, proactively monitoring performance against response and resolution targets, and driving continuous improvement where breaches occur.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Consultancy
• Act as a senior trusted adviser to finance leaders, programme managers and client stakeholders.
• Lead and facilitate complex workshops, translating business needs into clear functional designs and system specifications.
• Communicate risks, options and recommendations clearly to support effective decision-making.
• Supervision & Capability Development
• Provide day-to-day technical supervision, coaching and mentoring to Band D/E colleagues and contractors.
• Support task allocation, prioritisation and workload management across Workday Financials activities.
• Contribute to skills development, knowledge-sharing and succession planning within the team.
• Testing, Live Service & Governance
• Provide oversight of testing activities, including system, integration and user acceptance testing.
• Act as an escalation point for complex incidents, defects and service issues.
• Ensure all solutions comply with the client’s policies, financial controls, audit requirements and data protection standards.

Preferred Skills:
• 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.

The Client Offers
• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements.
• A generous annual leave allowance.
• Excellent defined benefit pension scheme
• Access to training, professional development and Workday-related learning opportunities.
• Employee wellbeing support and inclusive working environment.
• Opportunities to develop your career within Digital & Information or the wider organisation.

Please note candidates must be eligible to obtain SC Clearance.