Senior Workday Configuration Specialist

Summary

Join our team as a Senior Workday Configuration Specialist to design, test, and implement configuration changes that align the Workday Financials platform with our constantly evolving business processes.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience with Workday Financials configuration
• Knowledge of Workday's business process framework and finance functional configuration (business process configuration, security framework, condition rules, calculated fields, reporting)
• Experience around the standardization of the following functions: Financial Accounting/FDM, Banking & Settlement, Expenses, and Customer Accounts
• Experience leading and/or deploying complex Workday system improvements

Responsibilities

• Translate Finance & Accounting business needs into platform solutions
• Effectively join forces with business partners to gather and clarify business requirements, prototype, test, and demo solutions of varying complexity
• Seek to understand company policies, processes, and standards to address partner needs while aligning with Workday standard methodologies effectively
• Act as Technical Lead on complex projects (in-house or out-sourced), chipping in and delegating technical tasks independently
• Identify, prototype, and demo functionalities that fit arising business use cases
• Know the latest on newly released functionalities, champion adoption across partner teams (Workday Releases)
• Adhere to and champion the Transformation teams documented standards of deployment (testing, documentation, peer review). Establish new and refine existing policies, procedures, and documentation standards to optimize request intake
• Partner with other development teams and businesses to outline operating procedures for complex processes/requests
• Mentor junior team members and host cross-training sessions
• Peer review team members’ configuration design and deployment, and improve system configuration and quality standards on the team
• Lead and participate in scrum ceremonies with business as well as internal development teams
• Provide support and training to system end users

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Retirement savings (e.g., 401k, pension schemes)
• Bonus/incentive eligibility
• Equity grants
• Participation in our employee stock purchase plan
• Competitive health benefits
• Parental leave