Financial Optimization Specialist

This role involves providing expert guidance on Workday expense management, ensuring data accuracy, and implementing best practices to improve processes and efficiency.

As a Workday expense analyst, you will collaborate closely with the finance team to configure, test, and deploy leading practice-based business processes and solutions that enhance organizational performance.

• Provide Workday subject matter expertise for day-to-day support and development including business process configuration, integrations, data transmission (EIB), testing, and troubleshooting primarily in the Expense Module.
• Help ensure data accuracy and seamless ongoing enhancements of new Workday features/functionality.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to understand pain points, prioritize requirements, and identify opportunities to improve processes and gain efficiency by leveraging Workday functionality.

1. Lead Workday-enabled finance Expenses workstream(s) to design, configure, test, and deploy leading practice-based business processes and solutions that optimize financial performance.
2. Be the primary point of contact for data gathering, testing, and communication with key stakeholders and internal Business Systems teams.
3. Perform tasks such as understanding business requirements, configuring the Workday solution, demonstrating configurations through testing systems, and assisting the business in testing the Workday solution.
4. Assist with broadening internal knowledge of Workday configuration through hands-on training to cross-functional teams.
5. Provide a proactive interface between business partner groups and the Workday team to ensure effective coordination and delivery of Workday implementations.
6. Build reports to support both domestically and internationally for various areas of the Workday product.
7. Ability to problem-solve and propose multiple solutions for business requirements within Workday.
8. Manage Workday upgrades and implement new and revised functionality within Workday.
9. Partner with HR teams to analyze business needs and translate them into technical requirements and solutions within the Workday ecosystem.
10. Optimize business processes by enhancing workflows, automating manual tasks, and providing actionable insights through data reporting and analytics.

• 6+ years of Workday Expenses experience with proficiency in the use of Workday HCM.
• Excellent knowledge of Workday Expense Configuration, Security Administration, Business Process Configuration, and EIB (Enterprise Integration Builder).
• Proven Workday functional expertise Expense module; awareness of what Workday can and cannot do, familiarity with delivered functionality and reports, and experience performing straightforward administrative tasks in Workday.
• 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 thorough testing and analysis of new Workday features and functionality and participates in release planning.
• Experience with Workday Studio, Workday Extend, and integration development.
• Ability to customize the Workday Expense and desire to learn about and expand expertise to encompass new areas of Expense Management.
• 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 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.