Overview
Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Glasgow, is currently looking to recruit a Finance Systems & Operations Specialist (Workday Financials) for a 6 month contract on a rate of £400/day (Inside IR35). This role will be hybrid based with a minimum of 3 days per week in the office.
Responsibilities and Requirements
* Proven experience supporting Workday Financials testing, configuration support and reporting, including advanced/custom reports and dashboards.
* Comfortable working alongside vendors and internal teams to translate finance requirements into Workday outputs.
* Experience leading or supporting end-to-end finance system testing, including scenario design, reconciliation, defect tracking and UAT sign off.
* Strong attention to data integrity across GL, budgets, and investment attributes.
* Experience supporting budgeting and forecasting for complex portfolios, ideally using Workday Adaptive or similar planning tools, with the ability to critique data input and update the model build.
* Ability to handle both investment cashflow forecasting and corporate/non-investment cost forecasting (Capex).
* Strong capability in management information (MI) design, including bridging and reconciling data between accounting platforms and investment management tools to deliver enhanced insight.
* Ability to handle complex data using analysis and data transformation / reporting tools such as Excel and embedded data links, to transform data into reporting metrics in support of the above, including ability to self-review and test outputs.
* Experience updating finance procedures, workflows and control documentation following system or strategic change.
* Able to document “to be” processes clearly for audit, risk and operational handover.
* Understanding of public sector / regulated environment expectations, including audit trail, segregation of duties and evidence retention.
* Comfortable working with auditors and responding to control or documentation gaps.
* Proven ability to operate in a time-boxed, delivery-led role, picking up complex work quickly and reducing pressure on permanent team capacity.
* Strong hands-on experience supporting core finance operations, including:
o Journal preparation and review
o Accounts receivable and income recognition
o Accounts payable and supplier processing
* Experience supporting investment operations, particularly year-end valuation activities, including (working with the lead and guidance of an experienced Team):
o Running discounted cash flow (DCF) models
o Reviewing portfolio company financial statements
o Assessing assumptions, performance and risks
o Clearly documenting valuation methodology, judgements and conclusions to audit standard
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