Expense Manager

Workday Expense Specialist

The ideal candidate will provide subject matter expertise on Workday Expenses and lead finance workstreams to design, configure, test, and deploy leading practice-based business processes and solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Configure Workday Expenses and perform troubleshooting support primarily in the Expense Module.
• Help our team ensure data accuracy and seamless ongoing enhancements of new Workday features/functionality.
• Partner with internal Business Systems teams to understand pain points, prioritize requirements, and identify opportunities to improve processes and gain efficiency by leveraging Workday functionality.
• Lead Workday enabled finance Expenses workstreams to design, configure, test, and deploy leading practice-based business processes and solutions.
• 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.
• Creates and maintains 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.

Requirements:

• 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.