Workday Financials Administrator - Permanent position

NO 3^rd PARTIES DIRECT CANDIDATES ONLY

The Planet Group is seeking a Workday Financials Analyst. This is a fulltime permanent position, this is NOT a contract. Onsite 5 days per week in San Diego is required local candidates or relocation required.

This client is NOT providing visa sponsorship.

Permanent fulltime position (this is NOT a contract role)
Location: San Diego, CA 5 days a week. May eventually go hybrid based on workload.

Workday Financials Analyst

Responsibilities/Scope:

• Monitor the system for problems and identify and implement corrective and preventive measures.
• Understand the overall finance/accounting setup of Workday, including overall functional usage of Workday.
• Perform Workday administrative functions including business process and tenant configuration. Monitor and troubleshoot integrations and BPs supporting finance processes, determine root cause, and implement solutions.
• Understand Workday security including adjusting domains and security groups. Maintain the roles (for all business functional areas) related to security groups; this includes working with functional areas to assign and change roles depending on job function.
• Lead the Workday release preparation, including monitoring Workday Community for new release functionality. Coordinating with impacted business units to make required configuration/ content / reporting / integration changes.
• Analyze and manage Workday releases, assess impacts including architecting, configuring, prototyping, testing, and deploying updates.
• Leverage business knowledge and expertise to identify and recommend opportunities for process improvements, advise stakeholders on options, risks, and any impacts on other processes or systems.
• Coordinate with finance and accounting team to understand and document business requirements and use cases, design, and configure Workday. Maintain design workbooks.
• Ensure that recommendations from implementation partner fit
• Sees standards of minimum customization, maximum scalability.
• Evaluate, communicate, and coordinate the technical impacts of Workday configuration decisions.
• Build regression and acceptance test scenarios working closely with business process owners.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
• 3+ years of Workday Finance administration and/or configuration experience required.
• Advanced experience in Workday configuration in three or more of the following areas: Financial Accounting, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Banking, Procurement, Projects.
• Knowledge about Workday business objects modules and process flows.
• Experience with finance business processes and security and how to best leverage Workday to automate processes.
• Project experience with gathering requirements, architecting system configuration, leading testing, and implementation.
• Ability to work through complex issues and challenges and present business stakeholders with clear options for solutioning.

Nice to Have:

• Master s degree (MBA, MPA, or equivalent) - Relevant experience in financial analysis, budgeting, and forecasting can supplement education requirements where applicable.

At The Planet Group, we connect Enterprise Systems experts with opportunities that match their skills, goals, and ambition. From fast-moving startups to global enterprises, we partner with top organizations across industries giving you access to roles where your contributions make a difference. Explore flexible options including contract, direct hire, and contract-to-hire, all supported by a team that puts people first.

Additional Information

If you are interested, please respond to this ad with an updated resume and a summary of your skills. We look forward to hearing from you soon.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.