Workday Sr. Finance Analyst / Finance Systems Analyst IV / Sr. Financial Systems Analyst

"Primary focus: bridging finance processes and Workday Finance (plus other integrated systems)"

Primary Objectives

• Identify, analyze, and solve finance process and system gaps in an environment where stakeholders often lack clarity on what they need or why they need it.

• Own tasks end to end: gather and clarify requirements (even if they’re incomplete), follow up with stakeholders, document processes meticulously, produce training materials, and ensure each deliverable is completed.

Key Environment Notes

• We use Workday Finance and HCM as our central ERP with integrations to other finance tools/systems (e.g. Adaptive, Kyriba, Zuora, FinancialForce (now Certinia), Salesforce (aka. SFDC)).

• Finance, Operations, and other key stakeholders often cannot articulate comprehensive or enterprise-wide requirements, so the analyst must ask targeted questions and leverage finance/accounting or business operations knowledge to uncover what truly matters.

• This is a globa l role (Americas, Europe, APAC, Africa), requiring comfort with remote collaboration and cultural nuances

Work Style

• Highly proactive, able to work through ambiguity.

• Uses finance knowledge to identify “must-have” requirements vs. “nice-to-have” requests.

• Detail-oriented and comfortable managing multiple stakeholders who might not see the big picture.

Must Have Qualit ies:

Proactive Ownership & Follow-Through

• Must drive projects forward, even when requirements are vague or stakeholders aren’t respon sive. Finance/Accounting Knowledge (Moderate De pth)*Critical to fill in the gaps when stakeholders can’t articulate finance requirements clearly.

• Should understand how accounting concepts (e.g., GL, accruals, IFRS, cost centers) factor into enterprise systems.

Detail Orientation & Documentation Skills

• The analyst must carefully document every discovered requirement, assumption, or decision to prevent rework

Strong & Clear Communication

• Must be comfortable asking foundational or clarifying ambiguous needs

“Get Stuff Done” Mindset

• Goes hand in hand with ownership but also includes being relentless about uncovering missing information and seeing tasks through to completion

Ideal Candidate Pr ofile:

Education/Experience: 3–7 years in business analysis, finance transformation, or related roles. Some background in finance/accounting is strongly preferred to handle incomplete requirements.

Core Skills:Requirements

• gathering (often from vague sources), process documentation, test script prep.Meeting facilitation, note-taking, action-item tracking.Excel/Sheets proficiency for trackers, basic knowledge of ERP (Workday is aplus).

• Ability to justify a requirement or push back on it if it doesn’t align with best practices or enterprise priorities

Soft Skills:

• Comfortable with “messy” initial inputs.

• Great at bridging communication between Finance/IT.

• Adept at prioritizing tasks from an enterprise perspective, not just fulfilling random requests.