Workday Financials Functional Lead

**Company Overview**

Offering a complete ecosystem of maritime services, including broking, finance, port services and research, Clarksons is at the heart of global shipping. Our unrivalled reach, expertise, and depth of experience, combined with leading research, enables us to partner with clients across every sector to meet the demands of the world’s rapidly evolving maritime, offshore, trade and energy markets. Building on our unique heritage and harnessing our insights to see further, faster, we work with our clients and communities to create strategies that have a positive impact on the industry and the world around us. Dedicated to excellence, it’s our people that drive success for our clients.

**Role Summary**

Following the successful implementation of Workday Financials across several geographic regions, Clarksons have an exciting opportunity for a Workday Financials Functional Lead to join our team in London. This newly created role will support the deployment of Workday into the remaining global entities, whilst building on the existing functionality, and support existing users.

**What you’ll be doing**

Workday Support Desk
- Support day to day system administration; including security, configuration and design of Workday Financials.
- Maintain and develop business processes across all of Workday Financials and functional areas. Current modules are core financials plus expenses.
- Provide support to end-users of the Workday platform through jira, answering inquiries, resolving issues, and following through on any reported or unresolved issues ensuring a timely and reliable response.
- Collaborating closely with our external Workday consultants and Workday (as appropriate and required) directly and overseeing tickets to conclusion while ensuring accurate change management / testing protocol is followed.
- Engaging with our community, end-users & senior Finance members to assess business needs and translate those needs into effective streamline technical solutions that promote user adoptions.
- Experience holding requirements gathering sessions and documenting outcome, including designing process flow.
- Hands on with the bi-annual compulsory releases, implement new functionality and ensuring a successful delivery is always achieved through diligent planning and testing of processes, configuration and integrations.
- Stay current with industry trends and best practices to identify system improvements and enhancements.

Workday Global Deployment
- Lead functional workshops to communicate and train users to transact in Workday.
- Identify with the overseas team any local regulations or conditions which require exceptions to be made within the global template.
- Understand Workday best practice processes and configuration, as well as any constraints, to articulate these to key stakeholders.
- Carry out functional testing of Workday solutions to ensure any functional changes fulfil the requirements and all downstream effects have been tested and agreed.
- Produce testing scripts.
- Support clear process documentation for changes, testing, process flow.
- Provide inputs to Change Management agenda, supporting the effective adoption of the solution.
- Additional / ad hoc duties as required to meet the needs of the business.

**What we’re looking for**
- Drive and self-motivation, with the desire and commitment to succeed, deliver excellence and make positive change;
- Relationship building, with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to quickly build rapport;
- Collaboration, able to work well with others across diverse backgrounds to share information, develop skills, and deliver results;
- Resilience with the ability to persist and adapt;
- Smart problem-solving and analytical abilities, with a curious and inquisitive mind, and an openness to new ideas;
- Professional integrity and a respect for company values.

**Other requirements**
- Demonstrable proven experience of having led Workday projects or other Finance systems
- Previous Workday certifications an advantage
- Solid experience in a Workday Analyst role, with strong transactional experience
- Completed multiple system implementation projects with involvement in integrations