Finance Systems Support

Requirements of the role

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.

​Finance & Corporate Services is a strategic partner to the FCA ensuring the organisations resources are both protected and used efficiently & effectively in line with the strategy and business plan. It delivers this through strategic planning, budgeting, operation of a robust control environment, subject matter expertise and providing a secure & productive workplace. With careful allocation of our resources, and the right processes to support this, we ensure the organisation can do more for less.

As a Finance Systems Specialist, you will be working within the Risk Controls and Accounting Systems team (RCAS) within our Finance and Corporate Services Directorate. Collaborating with the IT Product Group and key business process owners and SMEs, you will be responsible for ensuring the smooth running of the finance system (Workday and Adaptive Planning) through day-to-day technical support and problem solving. You will work together with Finance teams to ensure that the end-to-end finance business processes are working as expected and provide troubleshooting as required. The team champions and assists with continuous improvement initiatives across Workday and other systems utilised by Finance identifying new opportunities for leveraging the functionality available within Workday Cloud service offerings.

What will you be doing?

• Deliver improvements to Finance processes, reports, and business-as-usual operations across Procurement, Suppliers, Expenses, Time Tracking, Customers, Revenue, Financial Accounting, and Tax
• Build credibility and relationships with Finance stakeholders to identify and implement new opportunities
• Manage approvals, workflows, account certification, period schedules, time codes, cost centres, projects, security group assignments, and product release testing
• Assist with month-end and year-end processes, including ledgers, periods, journal postings, and account posting rules
• Provide system training, maintain ‘How To’ guides, support testing in Workday Sandbox, and assist with data reconciliation
• Support Workday report creation and maintenance, monitor the system mailbox, and triage queries

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