Summary:
- This role will primarily be responsible for maintaining and improving the processes and technologies supporting the Financial Accounting and Planning & Analysis teams within the Finance organization. This role works closely with these
- teams to effectively gather and understand the requirements, manage, and implement the changes to Workday Financials and other directly related financial systems impacted to drive efficiencies and resolve issues.
Hiring Manager Notes:
Global Financial Systems Experience
Key Preferences:
- Strong background in procurement, assets, and banking.
- Experience with configurations of modules and FDM setup.
- Ability to guide the business on processes in Workday.
Required Skills:
- Functional and technical integration experience, particularly with Workday Financial Studio.
- Strong skills in building integrations and using APIs and web services.
- Experience with foreign currencies across 30 countries (including support for India).
Responsibilities:
- They are handling production support tickets and new projects for configurations and integrations.
- Involvement in the entire SDLC process for these projects.
Experience:
- Minimum of 2-3 years of relevant experience.
- Excellent communication skills are essential.
Additional Information:
- IBM was the integration partner.
- The original Workday implementation team has left, except for one person in India.
- There are 250 integrations with Workday.
- Key modules include customers, contracts, and revenue recognition.
- Integration experience is highly prioritized.
Upcoming Projects and Deadlines:
- Back Office Simplification: Migrating from the old billing system to Workday (RedCloud) with a target go-live date in November.
- International Billing Project: Moving billing from legacy ERP/CRM to Workday, initially targeted for January, now expected in April.
- Intercompany Project: Sunset of intercompany systems to Workday.
Essential Key Responsibilities/Job Summary:
Collaborate with functional leads across the organization (Suppliers, Customers, Business Assets, Procurement, Banking, General Ledger) to analyze, design, develop, test, and implement new features and configurations.
Document and validate business requirements with end-users and design solutions for complex business requirements.
Manage the foundational data in Workday.
Design, build, and support complex integrations, reports, and business form layouts using Workday Studio, Extend, BIRT, Worksheets, and OfficeConnect.
Work proactively with the various teams to identify/define deliverables, potential risks, and issues that may impact the outcomes along with process improvement opportunities, including Workday releases and updates.
Maintain strict confidentiality to protect employee and financial data privacy.
Share knowledge on leading practices in Workday and new learnings with other team members.
Education/Experience and Competencies:
Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, Information Technology, or related field with 2 to 3 years of work experience in financial accounting and systems.
Minimum 2-3 years of work experience supporting Workday Financials with demonstrated success supporting Day to Day operations in Suppliers, Customer, Business Assets, Procurement, Projects, and General ledger.
Experience with Object Transporter, Workday Studio, BIRT, EIBs, Core Connectors, and Workday web services (SOAP and REST).
Knowledge of common system integration methods and technologies including web services (SOAP/REST), JSON, XML, and XSLT.
Experience working with 3rd party vendors and system integrators.
Finance, and SOX/Audit concepts is a must.
Proficiency with Excel and other Microsoft Office products, include Access and SharePoint is required.
Highly organized with ability to multi-task and prioritize effectively while demonstrating a sense of urgency.
Strong analytical, problem solving and troubleshooting abilities.
