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Delaney & Bourton

Finance Reporting Lead (Workday)

On site

England, United kingdom

Senior

Freelance

02-02-2026

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Skills

Communication Go Workday

Job Specifications

Workday Reporting Lead (Financials) – Outside IR35

Contract – Outside IR35, rate circa £600-£700

⏳ 2 year contract

We’re looking for an experienced Workday Reporting Lead to support a Workday implementation spanning:

HCM
Financials

This role will take ownership of the end-to-end reporting strategy, acting as the primary SME for all Workday reporting activities across the programme.

The Role

You’ll be responsible for the full lifecycle of Workday reporting, including:

Defining and owning the Workday reporting strategy
Establishing reporting standards, governance and naming conventions
Advising on best practice reporting across HCM, FINS and PSA

Leading requirements gathering, design and delivery of:

Advanced Reports
Matrix Reports
Composite Reports
Dashboards / Discovery Boards (where applicable)
Ensuring alignment between reporting, security roles and business processes
Acting as the main reporting SME across functional and technical teams
Supporting testing phases (SIT, UAT), defect resolution and go-live
Providing reporting input into cutover and hypercare
Supporting documentation, knowledge transfer and enablement

Required Experience

Proven experience as a Workday Reporting Lead or Senior Workday Reporting Consultant

Strong hands-on delivery across:

Workday HCM
Workday Financials

Deep expertise in:

Advanced Reports
Matrix Reports
Composite Reports
Strong understanding of Workday security and business process frameworks
Experience across full lifecycle Workday implementations
Confident working autonomously in a contract environment
Strong stakeholder communication skills

About the Company

Delaney & Bourton is a Technology and Change recruitment firm. We specialise in appointing and subsequently partnering with business leaders to build high performing technology, digital and change teams. Our mission is to provide an unrivalled Technology and Change recruitment solution, through flexible and innovative methods which are founded upon our principles of exceptional quality, integrity and transparency. Due to technological advances and growing in-house recruitment functions, combined with the ever-increasing d... Know more