Workiva developer

Workiva application currently aids in financial reporting

within client financial and reporting functions. It facilitates

the preparation of financial statements for more than 150

entities (LPs). It also supports the preparation of investor

reports and other financial reports. The applicant will be

responsible for collaborating with teams to develop

solutions. He/she will design, implement and maintain high-

quality codes, ensure scalability, performance and

maintainability. Participate in code reviews and provide

feedback. Explore techniques to continually enhance

processes.

Job Requirements:

Domain skills:

1. 5-7 years of experience with at least two years in

consolidation systems development and support,

encompassing all aspects of the solution (including

business rules, metadata, security configuration, cube

views, dashboards and workflows).

2. Strong coding skills in Workiva, VBA or vb.net, with

experience of developing business rules. Knowledge of

SQL would be an advantage.

3. Experience of operating in a tightly controlled

environment - working closely with audit (both internal

and external), and ideally with a good understanding of

compliance requirements.

4. Understanding and practical experience of finance

processes and the conversion of business requirements

into systems solutions.

Behavioral skills

• Ability to build strong relationships across the

business, especially with key stakeholders in Finance

and with other teams in IT and Audit.

• Responsible and self-sufficient, taking full

responsibility for work.

• Well organized, with close attention to detail.
• Team player, with good listening and interpersonal

skills.

• Pro-active, with the ability and confidence to drive

forward discussions, co-ordinate activities, make

judgements and take decisions.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Key Responsibilities:

All aspects of operational support and development, including (but not

limited to):

1. Create new report templates and/or modify and improve on

existing templates in Workiva

2. Maintain user documentation, including training materials and

user guides.

3. Deliver ad-hoc end-user training.

4. Provide additional guidance to users to resolve issues arising from

a gap in user knowledge / understanding.

5. Provide support for data import related queries - e.g. establishing

and explaining the data lineage of data points within the

application.

6. Configure confirmation rule tolerances and settings

7. Manage automated data integration processes - e.g. starting and

stopping folder polling operations or reviewing the status of loads,

resolving issues

8. Liaise with the technical and functional teams who are responsible

for data integrations from source systems, answering their queries

and supporting their processes.

9. Assist users to submit standard change requests, including the

process and the details required.

10. Interpret the requirements of standard change requests and

convert these into appropriate systems solutions - providing

options / recommendations to identify the optimum solution for

the desired outcome.

11. Implement medium complexity configuration changes, including

the modification of existing business rules.

12. Ensure appropriate governance and controls are followed during

development, including independent review and sign-off, use of

rollback methodologies, etc.

13. Undertake full data reconciliations to validate that historic data

has not been inadvertently impacted by changes.

14. Participate in the annual reviews, including the delivery of process

walkthroughs to auditors and the provision of requested

documentary evidence.

15. Monthly review of system audit reports, covering data entry by

admins and changes to security access, metadata and rules, cube

views, confirmation rules, mappings, user groups and user access.

16. Undertake post-patch application testing and annual DR testing.

Other requirements

• Valid passport
• Willingness to work on UK timings if required.
• Candidates available for joining in less than 30 days are preferred.