Senior Workday Solutions Developer

Senior Workday Expenses Analyst

Job Type: Long Term Contract, Hybrid, Twice a Week, Onsite

The successful candidate will provide subject matter expertise in the Workday Expenses module to ensure its smooth operation, improvement, and connection with other systems. This includes configuring expense policies, fixing issues, testing new features, building reports, and helping finance and HR teams use Workday more effectively.

Responsibilities include:

• Providing Workday subject matter functional expertise for day-to-day support and development, including business process configuration, integrations, data transmission (EIB), testing, and troubleshooting primarily in the Expense Module.
• Ensuring data accuracy and seamless ongoing enhancements of new Workday features/functionality.
• Providing subject matter expertise on Workday best practices and partnering with COE(s) to understand pain points, prioritize requirements, and identify opportunities to improve processes and gain efficiency by leveraging Workday functionality.
• Leading Workday enabled finance Expenses workstream(s) to design, configure, test, and deploy leading practice-based business processes and solutions.
• Being the primary point of contact for data gathering, testing, and communication with key stakeholders and internal Business Systems teams.
• Understanding business requirements, configuring the Workday solution, demonstrating configurations through the development of testing systems, assisting the business in testing the Workday solution, and problem-solving with business stakeholders.
• Assisting with broadening internal knowledge of Workday configuration through hands-on training to cross-functional teams.
• Providing a proactive interface between business partner groups and the Workday team to ensure effective coordination and delivery of Workday implementations.
• Building 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.
• Managing Workday upgrades and implementing new and revised functionality within Workday.
• Partnering with HR teams to analyze business needs and translate them into technical requirements and solutions within the Workday ecosystem.
• Optimizing business processes by enhancing workflows, automating manual tasks, and providing actionable insights through data reporting and analytics.
• Creating and maintaining 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:

• 6+ years of Workday Expenses experience with proficiency in the use of Workday HCM.
• 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).
• Participating in Workday releases, assessing new features, and recommending adoption strategies for Talent Management modules.
• Ensuring 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 participating 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 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.