Group Project Accountant

The Group Project Accountant plays a dual role within the Finance function: Co‑ordinating, overseeing and getting involved in the detail of current finance projects to ensure delivery is aligned to agreed business needs, controls, and priorities; and Helping to lead and deliver finance improvement initiatives, designing and embedding improved end‑to‑end finance processes enabled by Workday Financials. The role acts as the bridge between Finance, the Finance Systems team, and the wider business, ensuring that both near‑term project activity and longer‑term transformation are governed, prioritized, and delivered based on clear business value. Examples of live pipeline projects include acquisition integration, onboarding of entities onto workday, intercompany clean up, legal entity rationalization and month end close efficiencies.

• Act as the process and finance lead across in‑flight 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, ensuring: Clear scope and ownership, Documented business requirements, Agreed success measures and benefits
• Ensure that project outputs are: Consistent with Group process standards, Appropriately controlled and auditable, Fit for operation post‑implementation
• Maintain a central view of finance change activity, dependencies, and impacts across process areas.
• Support prioritization of work through agreed governance forums, ensuring delivery is driven by business need rather than system or technical preference.
• 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 (efficiency, control, quality, user experience) and conduct post‑implementation reviews.
• Work closely with the Finance Systems team to translate business and process needs into effective Workday Financials solutions.
• Provide functional input into Workday configuration, including: Business processes and approvals, Journal processing and automation, Master data and governance, Security and controls
• Support Workday releases and enhancements, ensuring finance processes remain stable, controlled, and scalable.
• Act as a trusted partner to senior Finance stakeholders, balancing delivery of current priorities with longer‑term transformation goals.
• Lead workshops and design sessions to build alignment on future‑state processes.
• 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

As well as a competitive salary and range of benefits, we’re committed to supporting employee wellbeing and helping you grow your skills, experience and career.