Workday Finance Functional Specialist
Division – Data, Technology & Innovation (DTI)
Department – Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Salary – National – ranging from £52,400 – £75,000 and London from £57,700 – £85,000 per annum (salary offered will be based on skills and experience)
About the FCA
The FCA regulates the conduct of 45,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. Follow this link to find out more
About the FCA.
The Team/Department
We are looking for a Workday Finance Functional Specialist to join our ERP team to help us with ongoing support and change initiatives with our Workday ERP system.
As a successful Workday Finance Functional Specialist, you will be working within the ERP Product Group DevOps team within our DTI division. Collaborating with the ERP Product Group and key business owners and SMEs, you will be responsible for the delivery of improvements to existing Workday systems and Business-as-Usual (BAU) operations. Additionally, the identification of new opportunities for leveraging the functionality available within Workday Cloud service offerings.

What will you be doing?

• Provide Development and BAU Workday support for Finance, covering core Financials, Revenue Management, Projects, Procurement, Suppliers, Expenses, Time Tracking, Customers, Financial Accounting, Tax, and Adaptive Planning
• Manage the daily administration, maintenance, releases, and support activities for Workday. Contribute to the ERP Product Group team to support the development of a comprehensive DevOps model for end users
• Design and maintain system configurations, including Organisation structures, Custom Organisations, Playgroups, and Security
• Test, validate, and implement Business Process changes
• Produce detailed functional and non-functional requirements, aligned to best practice standards and agreed acceptance criteria
• Conduct quality assurance and review of artefacts (configuration changes) created by internal teams to ensure the delivered solution meets business and non-functional requirements while adhering to technical designs
• Oversee Agile backlog management, ensuring requirements and designs are mapped into releases effectively
• Maintain integrations of key interfaces with Workday through automated/scheduled tasks and manual data imports
• Ensure traceability of technical requirements and functional specifications by designing and executing test phases, enabling successful outcomes within a DevOps model
• Build credibility and strong relationships with stakeholders to support business needs and identify new opportunities through deep product knowledge

What will you get from the role?
This role is an exciting opportunity to be part of the dynamic Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) DevOps team at the FCA. You’ll be working alongside a talented team, including a Product Owner, Service Manager, and Architects, in a collaborative and forward-thinking environment.
As our Workday Finance Functional Specialist, you’ll play a key role in shaping the FCA’s ERP solution by gathering and refining requirements, driving Agile delivery, and supporting Finance business customers with BAU operational needs. This role offers the chance to develop deep expertise in Workday while continuously enhancing your analytical and problem-solving skills.
If you’re looking for a varied, impactful, and career-advancing opportunity, where you can contribute to critical business processes and innovate within a leading financial organisation, this is the role for you.
Which skills are required?
We are a Disability Confident Employer; therefore, disabled people or individuals with long-term conditions who best meet the minimum criteria for a role will go through to the next stage of the recruitment process. (To learn more about the Disability Confident Scheme
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Minimum

• Extensive hands-on experience with Workday Finance, including all project lifecycle phases, complex implementations, and functional configuration expertise
• Experience producing project deliverables (business requirements, functional specs, configuration documents, process flows, use cases, requirements traceability matrices, etc)
• Experience of working within a corporate or government IT environment that uses Workday technologies

Essential

• Excellent communication skills for presentations, workshops, and business reporting
• Strong stakeholder management, engaging with all business levels
• Workday specialist training in Finance and Integrations Fundamentals, with a Workday Pro Track qualification being highly advantageous
• Experience with formal development methodologies (e.g. Prince2, RUP, Scrum, Agile) is preferable
• Experience with integrating between Workday and other IT Systems e.g. Adaptive Planning, Salesforce, Clarizen is highly desirable

Our Values & Diversity
We are proud to be an inclusive employer and our ambition is to cultivate a culture for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences and similarities enable us to be a better organisation – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better regulation.
Within the workplace you will have access to various employee resource groups which aim to promote and achieve a healthy work / life balance and support our diversity ambitions.
Did you know? 50% of our Executive Committee are women.
The FCA is committed to achieving greater diversity across all levels of the organisation. Given this, we particularly welcome applications from women, minority ethnic, disabled, and neurodivergent candidates for our role.

Benefits of working at the FCA

• 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays
• Hybrid working (work from home up to 60% of your time)
• Private healthcare with Bupa
• A non-contributory Pension of at least 8%
• Life assurance
• Income protection

We also have a competitive flexible benefits scheme which gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifestyle.
We welcome applications from candidates who are looking for flexible arrangements. Many of our staff work flexibly including working part-time, staggered hours, and job shares. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want but we can explore what might work best for both sides.
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Life at the FCA
Application Support
We are dedicated to removing barriers and ensuring our application process is accessible to everyone. We offer a range of adjustments to make your application experience as comfortable and straightforward as possible.
If you have an accessibility need, disability, or condition requiring changes to the recruitment process, please contact your recruiter using the details below and they will be happy to discuss this further with you.
Useful Information and Timeline
This role is graded Senior Associate – Regulatory
SC Clearance is required for this role –

SC Guidance

• Advert closing date: Sunday 30th March
• CV review/shortlist: w/c 31st March
• Interview to assess technical capability and core skills: w/c 7th April

Your Recruiter will discuss the process in detail with you during screening for the role, therefore, please make them aware if you are going to be unavailable for any date during this time.
Got a question?
If you are interested in learning more about the role, please contact: Melanie Dubock at
Melanie.Dubock@fca.org.uk
Applications must be submitted through our online portal. Applications sent via email will not be accepted

• Provide Development and BAU Workday support for Finance, covering core Financials, Revenue Management, Projects, Procurement, Suppliers, Expenses, Time Tracking, Customers, Financial Accounting, Tax, and Adaptive Planning
• Manage the daily administration, maintenance, releases, and support activities for Workday. Contribute to the ERP Product Group team to support the development of a comprehensive DevOps model for end users
• Design and maintain system configurations, including Organisation structures, Custom Organisations, Playgroups, and Security
• Test, validate, and implement Business Process changes
• Produce detailed functional and non-functional requirements, aligned to best practice standards and agreed acceptance criteria
• Conduct quality assurance and review of artefacts (configuration changes) created by internal teams to ensure the delivered solution meets business and non-functional requirements while adhering to technical designs
• Oversee Agile backlog management, ensuring requirements and designs are mapped into releases effectively
• Maintain integrations of key interfaces with Workday through automated/scheduled tasks and manual data imports
• Ensure traceability of technical requirements and functional specifications by designing and executing test phases, enabling successful outcomes within a DevOps model
• Build credibility and strong relationships with stakeholders to support business needs and identify new opportunities through deep product knowledg