Adaptive Modeller - 12 month FTC

Key Relationships: Finance Leadership Team, Financial Performance Team, Group Reporting and Tax, Support Function Heads and Business Managers, Modernisation Delivery Leads, Corporate Development & other Business Users.

Job Summary: The role involves supporting Senior Adaptive Modellers in the continuous improvement and maintenance of a complex Workday Adaptive solution. Key responsibilities include providing technical support for BAU activities, maintaining and updating modelling solutions, assisting Super Users with data mappings, integrations, and system maintenance, and performing system health checks. Additionally, the role involves facilitating the development of the product roadmap, collaborating with the platform architecture team to develop and release end-user requirements, and providing technical expertise for system enhancements. Documentation and maintenance of system design and configuration notes are also essential aspects of the job.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for supporting the Senior Adaptive Modellers in the delivery of continuous improvement and maintenance of a complex Workday Adaptive solution.
• BAU Support: Working with the Senior Adaptive Modellers to provide technical support to the BAU activities within a complex Adaptive solution in a post-production environment:

• Maintain updates and changes to modelling solutions to facilitate the resolution of support tickets, as well as feature enhancements and new feature design.
• Assist Super Users in performing data mappings and integrations.
• Assist Super Users in the maintenance of versions, access & permission rules, assumptions, and sheets.
• Perform system health-checks and enhance model configuration and processes.
• Proactively leverage Workday Adaptive Planning’s bi-annual upgrades as appropriate.

• Work with the Senior Adaptive Modellers for each use case, to develop, maintain and release end-user requirements, in collaboration with the wider platform architecture team.
• Provide technical expertise to execute the design and configuration of system enhancements in Adaptive Planning.
• Document and maintain system design and configuration notes.

• Show active listening and participate in team standups, planning sessions and retrospectives to drive strategic conversations (pros, cons, issues, obstacles, dependencies, value associated).
• Evaluate the feasibility of stakeholder requirements and translate complex technical Adaptive concepts into non-technical recommendations.
• Ensure that all system functions, processes, capabilities, guidelines are well-known to main stakeholders as well as quality and change control standards are met from a technical perspective.
• Develop your own network and stay up-to-date with the Adaptive community & Workday for any system upgrades and support queries.

Core competencies:

• Analytical Thinking: Logical analytical approach to rapidly changing data and situations. Considers wider implications across functions and varying scenarios.
• Professionalism: Consistently demonstrates integrity, is highly credible, respectful and trustworthy.
• Learning and development: Identifies strengths and weaknesses and seeks to improve performance.
• Adaptability: Effectively manages changing priorities in a dynamic environment.
• Responsibility and Accountability: Assumes full responsibility for the consequences of own behaviour and decisions.
• Communicating Effectively: Timely communication of new information to relevant parties.
• Demonstrating Teamwork: Seeks collaboration as appropriate and shares knowledge/best practice.
• Innovative approach: Independently finds solutions to advanced problems and identifies potential barriers to solutions.

Integrity and Control: Use business knowledge to identify potential errors with financial impact and take steps to prevent and/or correct such errors, highlighting where necessary to management. Act as a conduit between the Core Workday Development Team, the Finance department and other departments in order to maintain financial data integrity. Produce and maintain procedures documentation for own tasks.

General: It is important that within all your interactions both internally and externally you adhere to Beazley’s core values - Being Bold, Striving for Better & Doing the Right Thing. We also expect Beazley employees to comply with Beazley procedures, policies and regulations including the code of conduct.

Personal Specification: We are proud to offer a flexible working environment, where our employees are able to work from the location that they consider most appropriate for the tasks they are undertaking. There will still be a requirement to attend the office based on business need, but our people are empowered to work with their teams to establish a model that works well for the individuals and for stakeholders.

Relevant qualifications and capabilities are listed as follows:

• Education and Qualifications:

• Essential: 2+ years of experience with Workday Adaptive, 3+ years of experience in Finance & IT.
• Preferred: Good understanding of the Insurance industry, terminology and associated accounting standards. “Workday Adaptive Platform” Certified (need not be currently active). Any Workday Financials or Workday Prism certifications or experience. Certified Accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA) or Part Qualified Accountant with industry experience.

• Essential: Good understanding of common financial reports and accounting principles. Great attention to detail, a well-structured, independent and proactive work ethic in a team environment.
• Ability and attitude to act agile, feel comfortable within a fast-paced environment.
• Strong, clear, effective written and verbal communication skills across all levels.
• Analytical and conceptual thinking, Problem solving / Decision making, Creativity / Innovation, Adaptability.