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Alight Workday Financials Consultant in London, United Kingdom
Your candidacy is currently being considered for a requisition for an Alight Inc group company. As you may be aware, Alight has announced intent to divest its Payroll & Professional Services business to HIG Capital. After the transaction closes, this position will be aligned to the new Payroll & Professional Services owned by HIG Capital (‘Divested Group’). By applying for this position which will be with the Divested Group company, you understand and agree to the information you submitted for your application with Alight being shared with the Divested Group company. In addition, if you are made an offer of employment, it will be contingent on your undergoing and successfully completing a background check consistent with the Divested Group company employment policies.
Workday Financials Consultant
Join Alight Solutions, you will have a bright future!
Alight Solutions are currently recruiting for experienced Workday Financials Consultants.
You will play a key role as part of an industry-leading team helping to drive results for our clients by delivering innovative and effective solutions as part of our Cloud Deployment Solutions and Cloud Optimisation business group.
Location is home-based with travel to client sites (up to 40%)
Our Values: People Matter, Excellence Every Day, Think Forward, Act Now and Be REAL
Your impact as a Workday Financials Consultant
Become a hands-on subject matter expert in aspects of the Workday Financials product suite
Work closely with the client to understand requirements and design, build, configure and test the Workday solution
Play an active role in your area of expertise, a point of reference for sharing knowledge and information with colleagues, collaborating to improve internal capability, including training and mentoring of new team members
Develop strong and trusting relationships with other members of the project team and management as well as external clients
Understand and apply Workday and Alight methodologies
Contribute to Alight financial performance through contributing to high client satisfaction and high standard of service to the client, managing your work on several concurrent projects
Keep up to date with latest Finance thinking, tools and techniques in your area of expertise and draw upon this to influence clients and project delivery
Your Skills and Qualifications should reflect our values and will include:
Knowledge of translating business requirements into system requirements
Advanced analytical, technical skills evidenced by playing a role in projects or in a Workday support environment
2+ Years of experience of deploying Workday or other Financial systems such as PeopleSoft, SAP, ADP, Oracle E-Business or other SaaS software solutions
Consultancy experience of Financial processes
Experience working with Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable or Financial Accounting systems or functions
Excellent oral and written communications skills
Good presentation and facilitation skills
Experience of confidently managing stakeholders
Evidence of collaboration and contribution to your previous work environments
Ideally, experience working on multiple concurrent projects
Ideally, experience playing a lead role in virtual teams
Ideally, Workday Financials Certified
Ideally having a ACCA Certification or its equivalent
Ideally, Financial Auditing experience
Ability to act with integrity
Able to self-manage confidently, with good personal productivity and self-motivation
Successful completion of the Workday Financials Services Core or currently Workday Financials Certified is a requirement of the role
In return, you will be offered extensive training and development, opportunity to work on a variety of major projects and the opportunity to develop subject matter specialism
We offer you a competitive total rewards package, continuing education & training, and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization.
Pay Transparency Statement: Alight considers a variety of factors in determining whether to extend an offer of employment and in setting the appropriate compensation level, including, but not limited to, a candidate’s experience, education, certification/credentials, market data, internal equity, and geography. Alight makes these decisions on an individualized, non-discriminatory basis. Bonus and/or incentive eligibility are determined by role and level. Alight also offers a comprehensive benefits package; for specific details on our benefits package, please visit: https://bit.ly/Alight_Benefits
DISCLAIMER:
Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job to other entities; including but not limited to subsidiaries, partners, or purchasers of Alight business units.
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About Alight Solutions
Alight is a leading cloud-based human capital technology and services provider that powers confident health, wealth and wellbeing decisions for 36 million people and dependents. Our Alight Worklife® platform combines data and analytics with a simple, seamless user experience. Supported by our global delivery capabilities, Alight Worklife is transforming the employee experience for people around the world. With personalized, data-driven health, wealth, pay and wellbeing insights, Alight brings people the security of better outcomes and peace of mind throughout life’s big moments and most important decisions. Learn how Alight unlocks growth for organizations of all sizes at alight.com .
Our values are the essence of who we are:
Champion people. We are empathetic and have created a place where everyone belongs. And we win together.
Grow with purpose. We are inspired by our higher calling. We fail forward and choose progress over perfection. We are brave, show grit and grow our whole selves.
Be Alight. We are a beacon that empowers others. We act with integrity and are real. And we find ways to add joy.
Our Colleague Experience
At Alight Solutions, we are reimaging how people and organizations thrive. To deliver on this purpose, we do things differently. From company leaders to our newest colleagues, we all play a role in bringing our values to life. Every colleague shapes how Alight can become better, stronger and brighter – together. With technology as our catalyst and humanity at our core, we advance each day toward a better future in work and life.
We understand the powerful human connections that create success for organizations. We bring an industry leader's expertise and a true partner's commitment to our benefits and administration solutions around health, wealth, HR, finance and consumer experience.
Are you interested in helping us shape the future of work and life for organizations, people and their families? If so, you've come to the right place.
Help us reimagine how people and organizations thrive!
Our story starts with a simple, universal truth: Every business is a people business. We are Alight Solutions. Reimagining how people and organizations thrive.
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