Senior Finance Systems Engineer

Responsibilities

Solution Design & Delivery

• Lead functional and technical design of complex Workday Financials enhancements across multiple business domains.
• Translate accounting and finance requirements into scalable, maintainable system solutions.
• Evaluate solution options, identify trade-offs, and recommend implementation approaches aligned with platform standards.
• Lead technical discovery sessions for medium to large initiatives.
• Own end-to-end technical delivery from discovery and solution design through testing, deployment, and production support.
• Provide technical guidance and support to other Finance Systems Engineers.

Finance Systems Engineering

• Configure and optimize Workday Financials while ensuring consistency, scalability, and data integrity.
• Design solutions that translate operational activity into financial transactions, journal entries, and financial reporting.
• Drive continuous improvement through configuration, automation, and process simplification.
• Produce and maintain technical documentation and solution designs.

Integrations & Automation

• Design and implement lightweight integrations and workflow automations using Make.com and other integration platforms.
• Partner with integration engineers and external system owners to ensure reliable end-to-end financial data flows.
• Troubleshoot integration issues and improve resilience, scalability, and maintainability.

Finance Partnership

• Serve as a technical partner to Corporate Accounting during projects, month-end close improvements, and production support.
• Investigate complex functional issues and perform root cause analysis across Workday and connected systems.
• Support Finance teams in evaluating, testing, and adopting functionality delivered through Workday biannual releases.

Continuous Improvement

• Evaluate new Workday capabilities and emerging technologies that could improve Finance operations.
• Contribute technical recommendations for platform enhancements and process optimization.
• Participate in Workday biannual release planning, impact assessments, testing, and implementation.

Requirements

• Extensive experience supporting Workday Financials in a complex enterprise environment.
• Strong functional knowledge across multiple Workday Financials modules, including General Ledger, Procurement, Accounts Payable, Expenses, Banking, Billing, Accounts Receivable, and/or Revenue Management.
• Expert proficiency configuring Workday business processes, security frameworks, custom reporting, and complex calculated fields.
• Experience leveraging EIBs for data management.
• Understanding of accounting principles, financial reporting, journal entries, and financial data flows.
• Experience leading end-to-end solution delivery from discovery and solution design through testing, deployment, and post-production support.
• Experience designing system solutions that balance business requirements with technical best practices.
• Experience with Workday integrations, EIBs, middleware platforms, or similar integration technologies.
• Experience working within Agile software delivery teams.
• Full professional proficiency in English.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience using Scrum methodologies in Agile delivery teams.
• Experience mentoring or providing technical guidance to engineers.
• Experience supporting global Finance organizations.
• Exposure to AI-enabled productivity tools such as Google Gemini and GenAI assistants.

Benefits

• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) and merit-based refresh grants for full-time employees.
• Inclusive parental leave policy: 24 weeks of fully paid leave for primary carers and 12 weeks for supporting carers, available from the first day of employment.