Financial Operations Specialist

The ideal candidate will provide subject matter expertise on Workday best practices and partner with cross-functional teams to understand pain points, prioritize requirements, and identify opportunities to improve processes and gain efficiency by leveraging Workday functionality.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver 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.
• Evaluate data accuracy and ensure seamless ongoing enhancements of new Workday features/functionality.
• Lead finance Expenses workstreams to design, configure, test, and deploy leading practice-based business processes and solutions.
• Act as the primary point of contact for data gathering, testing, and communication with key stakeholders and internal Business Systems teams.
• 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.
• Assist in 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.
• Develop reports to support both domestically and internationally for various areas of the Workday product.
• Able 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.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• 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 in 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 the 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 your 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 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Customization of Workday Expense.
• Oracle Fusion Cloud or SAP.