Finance Specialist - Workday Financials in Birmingham

Member of the Workday Configuration team supporting and enhancing existing Workday functionality through continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide support for the delivery of Grow & Transform enhancements across the Workday Financials Roadmap.
• Work within a team of Finance systems specialists responsible for Workday configuration enhancements, optimisation, new features and functionalities.
• Work with end users and product owners to identify and work through cross‑functional impacts of any post‑production changes in Workday.
• Oversee custom reporting, assessment of reporting requests and ownership of the reporting catalogue for Finance.
• Manage Workday ‘Ask an Expert’ requests for Finance.
• Drive the annual functional reviews for Finance as part of the Workday Success Plans subscription.
• Drive the twice‑a‑year Feature Release reviews with Product Owners to determine which features should enter product backlogs.
• Ensure the Workday ERP solution design is maintained for the areas relating to Workday Financials modules.
• Chair Beazley’s Workday Financials governance forum for changes to the Workday data model.
• Participate in Beazley’s internal Value Realisation Framework and Finance Technical Design Authority.
• Work closely with internal teams (e.g., Information Security, Financial Controls) to ensure governance for changes applied within Sandbox and Production environments.
• Provide Finance‑perspective support where other Workday products are implemented to identify regression impacts.
• Support resolution of audit requests when required.

Role‑Specific Competencies

• Experience in a Finance team with core financial accounting processes and controls.
• Good understanding of financial/revenue/statistical reporting, especially in the insurance industry.
• 3+ years Workday Financials experience in AMS/CVS roles as an implementer and/or client support.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex Workday Financials configuration, data and security issues and identify efficient workarounds.
• Adaptive Planning experience is essential.
• Experience using EIBs/Web Services.
• Ability to create Workday custom reports, calculated fields, condition rules, custom objects and custom fields.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder‑management skills.
• Strong organisation and time‑management for prioritising and resolving support tickets.
• PRISM and/or Accounting Centre experience desirable.
• Specific Workday Financials integration experience desirable.

Essential Criteria

• Qualified Accountant with qualifications such as CIMA, ACCA, ACA.
• Report Writer certification.
• Current or past Workday Financials Core, Foundation Data Model (FDM) and Record‑to‑Report (R2R).

Education and Qualifications

• Procure to Pay (P2P), Business Assets, Banking and Settlement, PRISM, and Accounting Centre certifications desirable.

Core Competencies

• Analytical Thinking – logical approach to rapidly changing data and scenarios.
• Professionalism – integrity, credibility, trustworthiness, and professionalism.
• Learning and Development – seeks self‑development, accepts feedback, improves performance.
• Adaptability – manages changing priorities in a dynamic environment.
• Responsibility and Accountability – owns decisions, delivers commitments.
• Communicating Effectively – timely, clear communication tailored to audience.
• Teamwork – collaborates, shares knowledge, supports others.
• Innovative Approach – finds solutions, challenges assumptions, embraces change.

General

• Comply with Beazley procedures, policies and regulations, including the code of conduct.
• Complete required training on Beazley policies and procedures.
• Display business ethics that uphold customers’ interests.
• Ensure customer interactions focus on fair outcomes and appropriate products.
• Keep up to date with relevant compliance, risk, and internal audit responsibilities.
• Carry out additional responsibilities as notified through objectives or the learning management system.

Personal Specification

• Flexible and innovative employer offering a friendly, collaborative, diverse and inclusive working environment.
• Encourages applications from all backgrounds and allows employees to choose where they work.