Engineer I, Finance Technology (Workday Adaptive Planning)

Location: London Workplace: Hybrid Company Description We’re http://checkout.comCheckout.com http://Checkout.com. You might not know our name, but companies like eBay, Spotify, Klarna, Uber, and Sony do, because we’re behind many of the digital experiences you use every day. We are where the world checks out, enabling over 10 billion transactions yearly for more than one billion global shoppers. Whether you want to book a holiday, order food, renew a subscription, or check out online, there’s a good chance our tech powers the payments behind the scenes. Our platform helps the most ambitious businesses deliver effortless digital experiences, at scale. If you want to do career-defining work, you’ve come to the right place. We move fast, think globally, and believe great teams are built by hiring exceptional people with conviction, curiosity, and the desire to make an impact. With 20 offices across six continents and London as our HQ, we’re shaping the future of fintech – and we’re just getting started. THE ROLE Checkout.com http://Checkout.com is looking for an enthusiastic Engineer I to join Finance Technology with a focus on Workday Adaptive Planning. Adaptive Planning supports finance, workforce, sales, and operational planning, giving teams a shared platform for budgeting, forecasting, modelling, reporting, and decision-making. This is an early-career engineering role for someone who wants to build depth in finance systems, application configuration, data integration, and operational support. You will work with Finance, Finance Technology, Data, and wider Corporate Technology teams to keep planning processes reliable, well-controlled, and easy to operate. You will have support from more senior engineers for complex design decisions, but you will be expected to work independently for longer periods on well-defined configuration, integration, support, and continuous-improvement tasks. This reflects Checkout’s Engineer 1 expectations: delivering small-to-medium-sized work, supporting common operational flows, communicating clearly, and taking ownership of the quality of what you deliver. HOW YOU’LL MAKE AN IMPACT - Configure, maintain, and enhance Adaptive Planning models, dimensions, versions, levels, accounts, sheets, reports, dashboards, and planning workflows under appropriate guidance. - Support the delivery of budgeting, forecasting, headcount planning, scenario modelling, and management reporting capabilities for Finance and business stakeholders. - Build and support data loads and integrations between Adaptive Planning, Workday Financials, Workday HCM, and other approved internal or third-party systems. - Maintain data mappings, transformation rules, validation checks, and reconciliation processes so that planning data is complete, accurate, and traceable. - Monitor scheduled loads and integration tasks, investigate failures, and resolve common data or configuration issues within agreed service levels. - Triage incidents and service requests, identifying root causes and escalating complex or high-risk issues with clear evidence and recommended next steps. - Partner with Finance stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into maintainable system configuration, reporting, or integration changes. - Contribute to the assessment and delivery of future analytics data flows, including the potential use of Adaptive Planning data in BigQuery and management analytics. - Participate in testing, regression testing, release preparation, and controlled deployment of Adaptive Planning changes. - Follow change-control, access-management, data-quality, and audit requirements relevant to financial systems and planning data. - Create clear documentation, support guides, data dictionaries, integration runbooks, and knowledge-base articles so that operational knowledge is shared rather than held by one person. - Identify recurring manual work or failure patterns and propose practical automation and process improvements. WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS - Experience in a finance systems, enterprise applications, data, reporting, or integration environment. - Practical experience with Workday Adaptive Planning, or strong experience with a comparable planning, performance-management, ERP, or finance application and a clear ability to learn Adaptive quickly. - Understanding of core finance planning concepts such as budgets, forecasts, actuals, variance analysis, allocations, dimensions, hierarchies, and scenarios. - Experience configuring or supporting structured data models, application workflows, reports, dashboards, or business rules. - Ability to work with data imports, exports, mappings, transformations, validations, and reconciliations. - Strong troubleshooting skills, with the ability to break down an issue, gather evidence, identify likely causes, and communicate findings clearly. - Good attention to detail and an understanding of why accuracy, access control, auditability, and repeatability matter in finance systems. - Ability to manage small-to-medium-sized tasks independently while knowing when to ask for help or escalate. - Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with Finance and Technology stakeholders. DESIRABLE EXPERIENCE - Workday Adaptive Planning certification or implementation experience. - Experience with Adaptive Planning Integration, Planning Data Loader, APIs, or equivalent enterprise planning integration tooling. - Experience integrating planning systems with Workday Financials, Workday HCM, an ERP, a data warehouse, or a reporting platform. - Familiarity with SOX controls, financial audit requirements, data privacy, and segregation of duties. - Experience supporting month-end, budget, forecast, or management-reporting cycles. - Exposure to Agile delivery, ticket-driven change management, incident management, or service-management practices. WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE After the first 6–12 months, you will be able to: - Support common Adaptive Planning configuration, data-load, and reporting requests with limited supervision. - Diagnose and resolve routine integration or data-quality issues using a structured troubleshooting approach. - Deliver small-to-medium-sized enhancements from requirement clarification through testing, documentation, and controlled release. - Explain key planning data flows, mappings, dependencies, and operational controls to Finance and Technology colleagues. - Improve the reliability or efficiency of at least one recurring planning or finance-technology process. - Maintain accurate, useful documentation and contribute positively to team ceremonies, reviews, and knowledge-sharing sessions. WORKING STYLE AND BEHAVIOURS We are looking for someone who: - Takes ownership of tasks and follows through on commitments. - Acts with urgency and accountability when issues affect Finance or business reporting. - Is curious about how finance processes, data, and technology fit together. - Communicates clearly, especially when explaining risk, blockers, trade-offs, or support impact. - Welcomes feedback and actively develops their technical and domain knowledge. - Collaborates generously and shares knowledge so the team does not depend on a single subject-matter expert. - Looks for durable automation and simpler operating processes rather than repeatedly working around the same manual problem. WHY JOIN FINANCE TECHNOLOGY? You will work on systems that sit at the centre of how Checkout.com http://Checkout.com plans, forecasts, reports, and makes financial decisions. The role offers the opportunity to develop a broad foundation across enterprise applications, finance processes, integrations, data quality, controls, and automation while working closely with experienced Finance and Technology professionals. Additional Information Bring all of you to work We create the conditions for high performers to thrive, through real ownership, fewer blockers, and work that makes a difference from day one. Here, you’ll move fast, take on meaningful challenges, and be recognized for the impact you deliver. It’s a place where ambition gets met with opportunity, and where your growth is in your hands. We work as one team, and we back each other to succeed. So whatever your background or identity, if you’re ready to grow and make a difference, you’ll be right at home here. It’s important we set you up for success and make our process as accessible as possible. So let us know in your application, or tell your recruiter directly, if you need anything to make your experience or working environment more comfortable. Life at Checkout.com http://Checkout.com We understand that work is just one part of your life. Our hybrid working model offers flexibility, with three days per week in the office to support collaboration and connection. Curious about what it’s like to be part of our team? Visit our Careers Page https://www.checkout.com/careers to learn more about our culture, open roles, and what drives us. For a closer look at daily life at Checkout.com http://Checkout.com, follow us on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/checkout/life/ and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/checkout_com/