Workday Financials Manager

Base Location

London/Manchester

KPMG UK offices | KPMG UK

The Powered Connected Technology team is a community of technology-focused professionals who work together to deliver SaaS ERP-based transformation programmes based on KPMG Powered Enterprise. The team use their functional knowledge and experience (e.g. Finance, HR, Procurement), coupled with their expertise in the cloud applications (e.g. Oracle, Workday, Coupa, SAP) to lead and deliver client programmes, to support pre-sales activities, and to develop improvement and extensions to the Powered Enterprise model. KPMG are growing their Powered Connected Technology team to meet an ever-increasing demand for our market-leading services and are seeking technology management consultants with relevant expertise and experience.

The Person

• Recognises the importance of continuous self and team development and actively strives to achieve this.
• Helps others to understand how their work contributes to the overall success of an engagement and the wider firm.
• Builds strong global relationships and actively seeks out the global network’s best experts to address client needs.
• Communicates compelling and well-thought-out solutions to complex problems.
• Builds constructive working relationships across different teams, functions, countries, or cultures.
• Fosters a sense of self-belief and confidence in others.
• Seeks to understand other’s motivations.
• Supports others to make brave decisions.

Functional Skills

• Educated to degree level or equivalent.
• An understanding of the key business issues/drivers that result in clients pursuing Finance transformation programmes (e.g. cost reduction, insight-led improvement, etc.).
• Experience of multiple industry sectors (e.g. Media, Services, Retail, Banking, Insurance, Local and Central Government, etc.).
• Strong influencing skills, with the ability to land key decisions with senior leaders and key business stakeholders.
• Experience of multiple Workday Finance ERP implementation project lifecycles, from presales, scoping, and planning through to post go-live support, as a Solution Architect.
• Detailed knowledge of Workday Finance enabled end-to-end business process across Finance and Procurement.
• A background in designing and delivering end-to-end business processes across multiple functional areas including Invoice to Cash (Receivables, Collection, and Cash Management), Record to Report (General Ledger including Intercompany), Procure to Pay (Sourcing, Procurement, Payables, and Payments), Acquire to Retire (Fixed Assets), Project to Result (Project Management and Project Accounting – Costing and Billing), within Workday Finance.
• Broad knowledge of other Workday product sets like HR and Payroll solutions.
• An understanding of the functional, application, and technical architectural elements of a Workday Finance programme.
• Experience of operating and implementing in a cloud environment and understanding the impacts of implementing and operating on the cloud versus on-premise.
• Understanding of a Workday Finance delivery lifecycle using Workday’s methodology or equivalent delivery method.
• Experience of managing a team of 10+ colleagues, including client and third parties.
• Experience in planning and estimating Workday Finance programmes.
• An appreciation of the influence of user experience-based design, e.g. Personas, user journeys, and how this can be used to augment a solution.