SlipstreamJobsFresh Startup & VC-Backed Jobs

Engineer I, FinanceTechnology (Adaptive Planning)

Checkout.com - London, United Kingdom - Hybrid - posted 2026-09-30

Apply on the company site

SlipstreamJobs tracks this role from the company's public career site. Apply directly on the employer's site.

Checkout.com is a global fintech platform powering over 10 billion transactions yearly for companies like eBay, Spotify, Klarna, Uber, and Sony. The Finance Technology team is seeking an Engineer I to join the Adaptive Planning initiative, which supports budgeting, forecasting, modelling, reporting, and decision-making across the organization. In this early-career engineering role, you will build depth in finance systems, application configuration, data integration, and operational support. You will work independently on well-defined tasks while receiving guidance from senior engineers on complex design decisions. Your responsibilities will include configuring and maintaining Adaptive Planning models, dimensions, versions, accounts, sheets, reports, dashboards, and workflows; supporting budgeting, forecasting, headcount planning, and scenario modelling; building and maintaining data loads and integrations between Adaptive Planning, Workday Financials, Workday HCM, and other systems; ensuring data mappings, transformations, validations, and reconciliations are accurate and traceable; monitoring scheduled loads and investigating failures; triaging incidents and service requests; partnering with Finance stakeholders to translate requirements into system configuration; contributing to testing and controlled deployments; following change-control and audit requirements; creating documentation and runbooks; and identifying opportunities for automation and process improvements. After 6–12 months, you should be able to support common configuration and reporting requests with limited supervision, diagnose and resolve routine integration issues, deliver small-to-medium enhancements from requirement through release, explain key data flows and dependencies, improve the reliability of recurring processes, and maintain useful documentation. Checkout.com operates with a hybrid model (three days per week in London office) and emphasizes ownership, urgency, curiosity, clear communication, collaboration, and continuous learning. The role offers exposure to enterprise applications, finance processes, data quality, controls, and automation while working with experienced Finance and Technology professionals. REQUIREMENTS: Essential: - Experience in finance systems, enterprise applications, data, reporting, or integration environments - Practical experience with Workday Adaptive Planning, or strong experience with comparable planning, performance-management, ERP, or finance applications with ability to learn Adaptive quickly - Understanding of core finance planning concepts (budgets, forecasts, actuals, variance analysis, allocations, dimensions, hierarchies, 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 ability to break down issues, gather evidence, identify causes, and communicate findings - Attention to detail and understanding of accuracy, access control, auditability, and repeatability in finance systems - Ability to manage small-to-medium tasks independently while knowing when to escalate - Strong written and verbal communication skills for working with Finance and Technology stakeholders Desirable: - 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, ERP, data warehouse, or 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

Similar roles