Workday Finance Analyst

Job Description :

The Workday Senior Finance Analyst is responsible for leading and driving technology initiatives ensuring that Aretes Finance team is leveraging the most up-to-date functionality within the Workday ecosystem. This role serves as Subject Matter Expert (SME) to the Finance Leadership and must be a self-starter, detail-oriented, and possess the capability to work independently with limited supervision and meet & RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Serves as the IT liaison supporting the finance areas in workday
• Collaborates with global stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into Workday system requirements
• Performs workday administrative functions which may include security maintenance, business process configuration, tenant configuration, and support for integrations
• Ensures adherence to workday best practices, including data governance, security, and compliance
• Acts as the subject matter expert (SME) with a focus on process improvement along with industry knowledge, and applications in the workday areas of financial management, procurement, account payable, cash & settlement, expenses, payroll, time entry, 3rd party pay connector and other financial systems optimization
• Collaborates across the business to understand requirements, configuration, and testing of Workday solutions for varying business problems including business process updates, custom validations, condition rules and calculated fields to optimize the use of workday
• Assists with the creation and editing of all different types of workday custom reports (composite, matrix, advanced, simple, etc.), dashboards, worksheets, and discovery boards
• Evaluates current policies continuously and recommend process improvements
• Demonstrates expertise in the implementation of workday applications, preferably, revenue management, time entry, procurement and adaptive planning
• Leads the maintenance of the workday platform as a technical expert applying best practices.
• Identifies, troubleshoots, and resolves issues related to workday financials functionality in a timely manner with minimal oversight
• Responds quickly to complex situations that arise, resolves technical system issues, while also making recommendations for improvements along the way
• Coordinates testing, deployment, and maintenance of system updates and enhancements
• Develops user procedures, guidelines, and documentation to support training, knowledge transfer and change management
• Develops and maintains reports, dashboards, and documentation to support business operations and decision-making
• Works autonomously, seeking assistance for difficult or complex issues, with a focus on individual tasks
• Works under little or no supervision; may receive general guidance on new assignments
• Employs established procedures and methods to solve issues, while also utilizing creative problem-solving when necessary
• Diagnoses, documents and resolves complex procurement issues from a functional, administrative and operational perspective
• Reviews business processes and advise businesses on system services available within the Workday application
• Performs business analysis and composes clear, comprehensive functional requirements
• Monitors workday community for updates and quickly research issues or questions

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