Senior Financial Operations Specialist

We are seeking a highly skilled Workday Expenses Analyst to join our team. This role involves providing subject matter expertise on Workday best practices, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and leading the design, configuration, testing, and deployment of business processes and solutions.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys problem-solving, has strong analytical skills, and is able to communicate effectively with both technical and business stakeholders.

• Responsibilities

  • Provide Workday subject matter functional expertise for day-to-day support and development, including business process configuration, integrations, data transmission, testing, and other troubleshooting support primarily in Expense Module.

  • Help ensure data accuracy and seamless ongoing enhancements of new Workday features/functionality.

  • Partner with COE(s) to understand pain points, prioritize requirements, and identify opportunities to improve processes and gain efficiency by leveraging Workday functionality.

  • Lead Workday-enabled finance Expenses workstream(s) to design, configure, test, and deploy leading practice-based business processes and solutions.

  • Be the primary point of contact for data gathering, testing, and communication with key stakeholders and internal Business Systems teams.

  • Perform the following on an engagement: understand business requirements, configure the Workday solution, demonstrate the configurations through the development of testing systems, assist the business in testing the Workday solution.

  • Be comfortable and confident in gathering configuration requirements and problem-solving with business stakeholders.

  • Assist with broadening internal knowledge of Workday configuration through hands-on training to cross-functional teams.

  • Provide a proactive interface between business partner groups and the Workday team to ensure effective coordination and delivery of Workday implementations.

  • Build reports to support both domestically and internationally for various areas of the Workday product.

  • Ability to problem-solve and propose multiple solutions for business requirements within Workday.

  • Manage Workday upgrades and implement new and revised functionality within Workday.

  • Partner with HR teams to analyze business needs and translate them into technical requirements and solutions within the Workday ecosystem.

  • Optimize business processes by enhancing workflows, automating manual tasks, and providing actionable insights through data reporting and analytics.

  • Create and maintain clear, comprehensive, documented business requirements for requested changes, enhancements, or projects; accountable for articulating functional processes from beginning to end and providing thought leadership on functionality and design.

• Required Skills and Qualifications

  • 6+ years of Workday Expenses experience with proficiency in the use of Workday HCM.
  • Have an excellent knowledge of Workday Expense Configuration, Security Administration, Business Process Configuration, and EIB (Enterprise Integration Builder).
  • Proven Workday functional expertise Expense module; an awareness of what Workday can and cannot do, familiarity with delivered functionality and reports, and experience performing straightforward administrative tasks in Workday (Undoing tasks, manually advancing tasks, waiving requirements).
  • Participate in Workday releases, assessing new features and recommending adoption strategies for Talent Management modules.
  • Ensure day-to-day systems support is balanced with strategic enhancements and projects related to Workday Expenses and Integrations.
  • Responsible for the thorough testing and analysis of new Workday features and functionality and participates in release planning; accountable for regression testing, unit testing, User Acceptance testing, and pre-launch testing/sign-off for new features or enhancements.
  • Experience with Workday Studio, Workday Extend, and integration development.
  • Ability to customize the Workday Expense and desire to learn about and expand your expertise to encompass new areas of Expense Management (Oracle Fusion Cloud or SAP).
  • Hands-on experience developing and enhancing custom reports and dashboards in SaaS or enterprise systems.
  • Ability to work in a diverse, fast-paced environment and effectively collaborate across teams.
  • Project management experience supporting the deployment of features and functionality.
  • Strong analytical, multitasking, and interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to communicate effectively with both a technical audience and business users.
  • Experience in Agile development environments: ServiceNow, Jira.