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You’ll be the primary Workday Financials system administrator, driving platform optimisation, AI‑enabled feature adoption, ticket and change request governance, and ensuring integrations, reporting and security are robust.
The role seeks someone with deep Workday Financials experience (including expenses and banking integrations), strong engineering and coding skills, advanced Excel/database knowledge, and a curiosity for AI‑driven automation, plus the ability to collaborate across finance, engineering, security and people teams.
By automating manual finance processes and delivering reliable, fast reporting, you’ll enable Thought Machine’s rapid growth and support its mission to replace legacy banking tech with a scalable, data‑driven financial stack.
Ideal for a self‑motivated, fast‑paced problem‑solver who blends finance expertise with technical acumen, enjoys cross‑functional collaboration, and is eager to leverage AI to streamline and future‑proof financial operations.
Thought Machine's mission is bold – to properly and permanently rid the world's banks of legacy technology. To achieve this, we have developed the foundations of modern banking through core and payments technology which run natively in the cloud. What we are attempting is hard and means we need great people working together to build great technology.
We have grown rapidly in the past few years – growing our team to more than 550 individuals across offices in London, New York, Singapore, Sydney and our newly established Engineering Hub in Lisbon. We have raised more than £500m in funding and our investors include Molten Ventures, Eurazeo, Intesa Sanpaolo, Temasek, Nyca Partners, JPMorgan Chase Strategic Investments, Standard Chartered Ventures, and more.
We have created a culture that enables our team to produce the best work in the industry while ensuring we have fun along the way. We're regularly cited as having a fantastic workplace culture and have been recognised by Sifted magazine as having one of the highest Glassdoor ratings for a UK fintech company and the industry's most generous employee share package. Named one of the world's most innovative fintechs by Global Finance Magazine, we were also recognised by the Financial Times as one of Europe's fastest-growing companies for two consecutive years—and a UK Best Employer for 2026.
Thought Machine is looking for a talented Finance Systems Engineering Manager and will report into the Group Finance Director. The Manager will sit at the crossroads of accounting logic, systems architecture, and Generative AI. The business uses Workday Financials and needs someone experienced in usage of the system to continue with process improvements, maintain the system and support the Finance function. We are on a journey to eliminate manual processes, and this role will play a critical part in ensuring we have reliable data, automated processes and fast, meaningful reporting. The mission is to treat the entire Finance stack as a machine: designing automated data and ensuring the financial infrastructure scales seamlessly as Thought Machine continues to grow.
We actively hire candidates who demonstrate technical excellence in their field and welcome people of all ages and backgrounds, providing everyone with equal access to professional development. You are encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't accurately match the job description. We also encourage applications from those with different abilities, including candidates with ADHD, autism, dyslexia or dyspraxia.
