Workday Financials (FIN) Analyst / Consultant
Summary
Configure, enhance, and maintain Workday Financial Management modules for finance teams, translating business needs into system settings and workflows.
Job Description:
- Support the ongoing configuration, enhancement, and maintenance of Workday Financial Management modules.
- Partner with finance stakeholders to assess business requests, configure financial modules, and drive testing cycles through to production deployment.
- Assess and analyze incoming business requests against current Workday Financials configuration (e.g. Core Financials, Procurement, Financial Reporting, or related modules as assigned).
- Translate finance business requirements into system configuration and functional specifications.
- Manage requests related to financial processes, and reporting through the full lifecycle — intake, impact assessment, prioritization, build, testing, and deployment.
- Support financial business process configuration, and approval workflow changes.
- Conduct configuration testing, SIT, and support UAT with finance business users.
- Prepare functional documentation, configuration workbooks, and test evidence.
- Track and report on request status, and resolution progress.
Requirements:
- Hands-on experience configuring Workday Financial Management modules.
- Solid understanding of core accounting/finance processes (GL, AP, AR, procurement, or financial reporting).
- Experience working with business process configuration, security groups, and calculated fields.
- Ability to write clear functional specifications and test scripts.
- Strong analytical skills with attention to financial data accuracy.
- Experience working in large, complex environments preferred.
Good to Have:
- Workday Financials certification(s).
- Experience with Workday financial reporting tools (Composite Reporting, matrix reports).
- Exposure to governance and prioritization processes in a large program environment.