Group Project Accountant

• Coordinate current finance projects and enhancements, ensuring alignment to agreed business objectives
• Own, drive and personally deliver finance projects and changes
• Coordinate project activity across Finance, Finance Systems, and third parties
• Ensure project outputs are consistent with Group process standards, appropriately controlled and auditable, and fit for operation post-implementation
• Maintain a central view of finance change activity, dependencies, and impacts
• Support prioritization of work through agreed governance forums
• Deliver tangible improvements such as reduced manual journals and reconciliations, reduction in use of Excel to calculate or prepare journals, faster month-end close, improved straight-through processing, stronger preventative controls embedded in process design
• Build and track benefits cases and conduct post-implementation reviews
• Translate business and process needs into effective Workday Financials solutions
• Provide functional input into Workday configuration
• Support Workday releases and enhancements
• Act as a trusted partner to senior Finance stakeholders
• Lead workshops and design sessions
• Support change adoption through clear communication, training materials, and operational handover

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent)
• Strong hands-on experience across core finance processes (P2P, O2C, R2R, Fixed Assets, Intercompany)
• Practical experience of Workday Financials in a finance environment (highly desirable)
• Proven track record of delivering business process re-engineering within Finance, with clear examples of outcomes achieved
• Experience working in close partnership with Finance Systems teams across the full change lifecycle
• Strong understanding of finance controls, audit requirements, and governance
• Balanced mindset: Comfortable managing near-term delivery while helping to shape future-state transformation
• Process-led thinker: Sees systems as enablers, not drivers
• Willing to get into the detail and ‘get hands dirty’ on projects
• Commercially focused: Prioritizes work based on business value and risk
• Collaborative and credible: Builds trust across Finance, IT, and the wider business
• Pragmatic and outcomes-driven: Focuses on sustainable improvement, not theoretical design
• Structured and disciplined: High standards of documentation, governance, and follow-through

Practical experience of Workday Financials in a finance environment

• Competitive salary
• Range of benefits
• Office-first culture
• Hybrid working models
• Support for employee wellbeing
• Opportunity to grow skills, experience and career