Job Title
Sr Finance Specialist
About the role:
This role owns the Finance Administrator function for Workday Adaptive Planning while acting as a senior FP&A partner to the business. The individual will drive process improvements, ensure strong financial data governance, and enable scalable, reliable planning and reporting across Finance.
Workday Adaptive Planning Finance Administrator
- Act as Finance Administrator for Workday Adaptive Planning
- Manage model structures, dimensions, versions, allocations, and security access
- Partner with IT / SI for enhancements, fixes, and upgrades
- Troubleshoot data, integration, and calculation issues independently
FP&A & Business Support
- Support Budget, Forecast, and Management Reporting for assigned business units
- Build and maintain financial models and dashboards
- Translate business requirements into Adaptive models and reports
- Ensure alignment between financial outputs and management decision needs
Process Improvement & Transformation
- Lead process improvement projects across planning, forecasting, and reporting
- Identify automation opportunities to reduce manual work and cycle time
- Standardise templates, assumptions, and methodologies across FP&A
- Support finance transformation initiatives and future system rollouts
Financial Data Governance & Controls
- Own financial data governance standards across planning and reporting systems
- Define and enforce master data definitions (accounts, cost centres, products, etc.)
- Ensure data integrity across source systems (e.g. ERP, Snowflake) and Workday Adaptive Planning
- Establish controls, reconciliations, and audit trails for financial data
- Act as Finance point-of-contact for data issues and root-cause resolution
Who are we looking for:
- University degree, major in Accounting or Finance
- 5 7 years of experience in FP&A, Finance Transformation or Finance Systems
- Strong hands-on experience with Workday Adaptive Planning (admin or power user)
- Solid FP&A fundamentals: budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, modelling
- Proven experience driving process improvement or automation initiatives
- Strong understanding of financial data structures and governance
- Able to work independently and take end-to-end ownership
- Advanced Excel skills; experience with Power BI / Power Query is a plus
