Sr. Workday Financials Administrator

Milestone Technologies is a global IT managed services firm that partners with organizations to scale their technology, infrastructure and services to drive specific business outcomes such as digital transformation, innovation, and operational agility. Milestone is focused on building an employee-first, performance-based culture and for over 25 years, we have a demonstrated history of supporting category-defining enterprise clients that are growing ahead of the market. The company specializes in providing solutions across Application Services and Consulting, Digital Product Engineering, Digital Workplace Services, Private Cloud Services, AI/Automation, and ServiceNow. Milestone culture is built to provide a collaborative, inclusive environment that supports employees and empowers them to reach their full potential.

Our seasoned professionals deliver services based on Milestone's best practices and service delivery framework. By leveraging our vast knowledge base to execute initiatives, we deliver both short-term and long-term value to our clients and apply continuous service improvement to deliver transformational benefits to IT. With Intelligent Automation, Milestone helps businesses further accelerate their IT transformation. The result is a sharper focus on business objectives and a dramatic improvement in employee productivity. Through our key technology partnerships and our people-first approach, Milestone continues to deliver industry-leading innovation to our clients. With more than 3,000 employees serving over 200 companies worldwide, we are following our mission of revolutionizing the way IT is deployed.

Senior Workday Financials Administrator

Our Team

At , the innovative spirit that has been part of our DNA for over 30 years is what we look for in the talented team members that we hire. Reporting to the Director, Workday Financials and HCM, this role is part of a high-performing team whose responsibility is to ensure that the financial systems' technologies and tools support leading practices and processes for . Our team values ideas and suggestions to streamline and standardize global processes and procedures and we collaborate cross-functionally to implement these. We develop strong partnerships with the rest of the organization to effectively support its financial systems needs with best practices in mind. This role will be part of a fun, dynamic team that is focused on delivering value to our financial system users.

Responsibilities

This position supports the financial systems team in the prioritization, assessment, selection, planning, execution, maintenance and support of Workday Financials, as well other financial systems, both 3rd party and proprietary, used by the Company across the globe.

This position will also build partnerships with teams in Finance, IT, and Human Resources to help accomplish goals and objectives.

• Workday Financials system management (including, but not limited to, maintenance and configuration of allocations; creation, maintenance, testing and review of integrations to 3rd party systems)
• Assist team with maintenance of metadata, business processes, security groups and user-raised support tickets for Workday Financials and other financial systems
• Adhere to established Service Level Agreements for support tickets and delivering on commitments
• Lead the implementation, configuration, testing, integrations, maintenance, monitoring, support, tax and reporting compliance, integrity of internal controls and generally accepted accounting principles, and issue resolution of all proprietary and 3rd party financial systems, such as Workday, Ascend, Appzen, Xignite, Ceridian Tax Services
• Encourage and support team initiative(s) to enhance user involvement and knowledge of the financial systems
• Partner with diverse stakeholders to design, test, implement and maintain best practices for systems and processes within the configuration of Workday
• Partner with business gathering requirements, developing fit/gap analysis, training on new features, and providing adoption recommendations of new or deprecated functionality from Workday Financials releases and updates
• Configure, test, and implement new features and/or enhanced functionality for Workday Financials
• Collaborate and partner with users to ensure financial systems are leveraged to drive efficiencies
• Assist team with completion of user acceptance testing for Workday feature releases to ensure key user stakeholders understand changes
• Develop, configure, and modify custom Workday financials reports and dashboards
• Participate in implementations, upgrades, integration, support, and enhancement of financial systems
• Prepare, summarize, and timely submit external auditor requests related to IT/support of financial systems
• Partner with external contractors for 3rd party support when necessary

Accounting/Finance Functional Knowledge Requirements

• General accounting knowledge of Financial Statements including Balance Sheets, Income Statements, and Trial Balances
• General understanding of system consolidation with varying ledger and reporting currencies and complex intercompany transactions
• Solid understanding of Accounting & Finance processes and concepts, and general accounting operations (Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, Treasury, Banking) and compliance

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Accounting, Finance, or related field
• 10+ years of experience in a financial system administrator role
• 5+ years of experience with Workday Financials including functional configuration, testing, business process optimization, and maintenance for Core Financials, Procurement, Expenses, and Assets.
• Proficiency in Excel (can perform complex functions)
• Analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to focus and deliver on key deliverables in an environment with competing, multiple priorities
• Excellent organizational and collaboration skills
• Ability to work through complex issues and challenges

Preferred Skills

• Multinational company experience
• Prior exposure to (or implementation of) Workday Adaptive Planning
• Prior exposure to (or implementation of) Workday Prism Analytics
• Experience partnering with software engineering teams on integrations

Estimated Pay Range:

Exact compensation and offers of employment are dependent on circumstances of each case and will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, licenses or certifications, and location.

At Milestone we strive to create a workplace that reflects the communities we serve and work with, where we all feel empowered to bring our full, authentic selves to work. We know creating a diverse and inclusive culture that champions equity and belonging is not only the right thing to do for our employees but is also critical to our continued success.

Milestone Technologies provides equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, national origin, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law, or local ordinance. Milestone also makes reasonable accommodations for disabled applicants and employees.

We welcome the unique background, culture, experiences, knowledge, innovation, self-expression and perspectives you can bring to our global community. Our recruitment team is looking forward to meeting you.