Workday Adaptive Planning Finance Analyst

Hybrid in the UK·Full-time·Added yesterday (last checked 28 Oct)

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Salary: £700 - £800 a day
Work mode: Hybrid, the UK
Contract: Contract role, inside IR35

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Requirements

What we're looking for

Workday Adaptive Planning: Strong hands-on experience testing, validating and supporting financial planning models.
Workday OfficeConnect: Proven experience modifying, maintaining and troubleshooting financial reports.
Finance / FP&A: Strong understanding of financial planning, forecasting, management reporting and financial data reconciliation.
Ability to interrogate financial data, challenge outputs and identify inconsistencies or errors.
Experience with Adaptive HTML reporting.
Previous involvement in finance systems implementations, upgrades or model rebuilds.
Advanced Excel skills and excellent analytical capabilities.
Confident working independently with Finance stakeholders and external implementation partners.

Nice to have

Oracle NetSuite implementation or integration experience.
Workday Adaptive Planning rebuilds following ERP or chart of accounts changes.
Financial planning and forecasting data migrations.
Finance transformation or finance systems project experience.

The role

Workday Adaptive Planning Finance Analyst
6 Month Contract
Location: London / Home - 3 days onsite per week
Rate: £700 - £800 per day (INSIDE IR35)

Skills: Workday Adaptive Planning, Workday OfficeConnect, FP&A, Financial Reconciliation, Finance Systems Implementation

We are seeking an experienced Workday Adaptive Planning Finance Analyst to support a major finance systems transformation programme.

This is a hands-on role requiring strong technical expertise in Workday Adaptive Planning and OfficeConnect, combined with a solid financial background and the ability to interrogate, analyse and reconcile financial data.

Working closely with Finance, FP&A, Finance Systems and an external implementation partner, you will play a key role in testing and validating a rebuilt Adaptive Planning solution alongside a wider ERP implementation.

What you'll do

Independently test and validate Workday Adaptive Planning models, calculations, assumptions, dimensions and integrations.
Interrogate financial data, investigate discrepancies and ensure the accuracy of forecasting, planning and management reporting outputs.
Reconcile financial and forecast data between systems, ensuring accurate mapping and migration.
Review, modify and troubleshoot Workday OfficeConnect reports, alongside Adaptive HTML and other financial reports.
Coordinate Finance User Acceptance Testing (UAT), documenting defects, risks and resolutions.
Work closely with Finance and FP&A stakeholders to ensure the solution meets financial reporting and forecasting requirements.
Support system cutover, go-live activities and post-implementation stabilisation.
Deliver user training, documentation and handover to operational teams.

The Opportunity

This is an excellent opportunity for a finance professional with strong Workday Adaptive Planning expertise to play a key role in a significant systems transformation.

The successful candidate will combine hands-on Workday Adaptive Planning and OfficeConnect experience with the financial understanding needed to challenge, reconcile and validate the numbers, ensuring accurate and reliable financial reporting ahead of go-live.