Job Title

Sr Finance Specialist

About the role:

This role owns the Finance Administrator function for Workday Adaptive Planning while acting as a senior FP&A partner to the business. The individual will drive process improvements, ensure strong financial data governance, and enable scalable, reliable planning and reporting across Finance.

Workday Adaptive Planning – Finance Administrator

• Act as Finance Administrator for Workday Adaptive Planning
• Manage model structures, dimensions, versions, allocations, and security access
• Partner with IT / SI for enhancements, fixes, and upgrades
• Troubleshoot data, integration, and calculation issues independently

FP&A & Business Support

• Support Budget, Forecast, and Management Reporting for assigned business units
• Build and maintain financial models and dashboards
• Translate business requirements into Adaptive models and reports
• Ensure alignment between financial outputs and management decision needs

 Process Improvement & Transformation

• Lead process improvement projects across planning, forecasting, and reporting
• Identify automation opportunities to reduce manual work and cycle time
• Standardise templates, assumptions, and methodologies across FP&A
• Support finance transformation initiatives and future system rollouts

 Financial Data Governance & Controls

• Own financial data governance standards across planning and reporting systems
• Define and enforce master data definitions (accounts, cost centres, products, etc.)
• Ensure data integrity across source systems (e.g. ERP, Snowflake) and Workday Adaptive Planning
• Establish controls, reconciliations, and audit trails for financial data
• Act as Finance point-of-contact for data issues and root-cause resolution

Who are we looking for:

• University degree, major in Accounting or Finance
• 5 – 7 years of experience in FP&A, Finance Transformation or Finance Systems
• Strong hands-on experience with Workday Adaptive Planning (admin or power user)
• Solid FP&A fundamentals: budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, modelling
• Proven experience driving process improvement or automation initiatives
• Strong understanding of financial data structures and governance
• Able to work independently and take end-to-end ownership
• Advanced Excel skills; experience with Power BI / Power Query is a plus