Responsibilities
1. Configure Workday and other Corporate platform systems to meet requirements; requests are grouped into large (> 5 days), Medium (between 5 days and 4 hours) and day-to-day support (< 4 hrs) and this role will be involved in all areas of request delivery.
2. Participate in daily stand-ups and weekly progress meetings to ensure day-to-day support and enhancement delivery are controlled; visible progress, clear dependencies, raised obstacles.
3. Participate in and influence the GAM prioritisation process.
4. Mentor Corporate IT team members with the development of their Workday skills
5. Application of disciplined change management adhering to GAM standards and best practise.
6. Help plan and support the bi-annual Workday feature releases and supporting system releases.
7. Provide robust, considered advice and guidance to Corporate IT Team colleagues and the business
8. Support internal and external audit reviews, ensuring quality responses are provided in a timely fashion.
9. Develop training materials and deliver training; cross skills-training to other team members, training end-users with new functionality
10. Continuous review of Workday & supporting systems' roadmaps, identifying opportunities for GAM to leverage new functionality and increase the value of the platform. Identifying and planning for end-of-life events
11. Systems Administration and user permissioning. Proactively manage user capabilities to ensure good control environment.
12. Report writing - configure & maintain the outputs for the standard Finance or HR catalogue of reports.
13. Continuous development of requisite technology skills (eg investing in training to ensure skills align to Workday developments)
14. Work closely with the IT team on upstream/downstream system changes and infrastructure developments, ensuring Corporate Systems impacts are understood and mitigated.
Qualifications & Experience
15. Mandatory: Minimum 2 years' experience of Workday FINS; specifically configuring BPs, Security model changes, Reporting, EIBs.
16. Mandatory: Minimum 1 year experience of Workday Adaptive Planning.
17. Mandatory:pleted at least 2 Workday training courses and direct experience in the following LDPs:
Financial Management Adaptive Planning
18. Experience of a Global Finance Department and its processes; including:
Financial Accounting Accounts Payable Accounts Receivable Group Finance Statutory & Regulatory reporting / Tax FP&A
19. Mandatory: Experience of Business & Functional Analysis and Change Management
20. Beneficial: Experience of supporting other corporate applications; specifically being business point of contact, gathering requirements, overseeing change delivery, engaging with vendors
21. Beneficial: Experience of working in an IT / technology delivery team / department using a structured delivery methodology.
22. Desirable: Experience of Workday HCM configuration and the HR department / Business function
23. Desirable: Financial Services experience is an advantage.
Personal Attributes
24. Ability to deliver on time and provide timely response to varied stakeholders
25. Managingplex issues, having a structured approach to problem solving (thinking creatively when required)
26. Excellent organisation andmunication skills
27. Attention to detail
28. Working in a collaborative manner
Benefits
GAM offers aprehensive range of benefits and performance-basedpensation, along with a variety of lifestyle and family benefits to promote well-being in and out of the workplace. These benefits vary according to local market conditions. Please contact the local Human Resources team for further details.
Employingpany/ies:
GAM (UK) Limited
Reporting to:
Head of Corporate & TA Systems
Contract:
Permanent Job ID JR1113