Senior Financial Analyst - Workday Financials Systems Management

Description: • The Financial Systems Management Workday Sr Analyst will primarily support the Finance organization’s reporting needs across all sub-workstreams including, but not limited to, general accounting, accounts payable, budgeting, grants, gifts, and payroll cost allocations. • This position will play a significant role in developing, designing, standardizing, and maintaining the Finance related custom reports repository and related dashboards. • Custom report development will include the development and modification of advanced, matrix, and composite reports while ensuring adequate data integrity and proper governance. • The Financial Systems Management Workday Sr Analyst will also support the overall administration and governance of the Finance related business processes, security and related tasks to those aforementioned areas. • Monitor, train, and implement future enhancements around the Payroll Cost Allocation (PCA) and Payroll Accounting Adjustment (PAA) processes. • Collaborate across business and technical teams, with a focus on delivering transformational reports, in support of the Finance organization’s business goals and initiatives. • Design, develop, configure, and test simple to complex Workday reports (advanced, matrix, composite) and dashboards utilizing Workday Report Writer access, as well as other organizational tools and available technologies. • Evolve to deliver against changing business needs and future Workday Reporting available functionalities. • Provide cross-functional understanding of financial data and its intersections and inter-dependencies across the overall Workday platform/ecosystem. • Provide technical guidance and ultimately become the subject matter expert around reports and dashboards to business and technical teams across the Finance organization. • Collaborate with technology and security teams to define and create calculated fields, edit security domain policies and other Workday objects to achieve the transformational reporting needs of the Finance organization. • Review Workday system upgrades and releases to determine overall impact on existing processes. • Conduct regression testing and make recommendations for future enhancements/functionality with an eye to improve the overall platform and user experience. • Provide support to the overall Financial System Management team in identifying root cause issues of Finance related incidents and carrying out process improvements and break fixes while adhering to the organization’s internal control policies. • Engage with Workday Community to understand technology capabilities and recommend solutions that address business needs. Requirements: • 5+ years of experience in the support and administration of Workday Financials • 3+ years of experience in Workday Report Writing including complex calculated fields. • A thorough understanding of the security dependencies related to Workday modules/data sources/data filters is also critical. • Working knowledge of personal computers and Microsoft Windows OS and applications. • Strong organization skills. • Ability to demonstrate a strong commitment to customer relationships by taking ownership of issues and ensuring effective outcomes. • Excellent facilitation and project management skills. • Ability to manage assigned projects to specified budget and timeline with minimal supervision. • Must be able to prioritize, organize and assess work in order to meet aggressive deadlines and cope in fast-paced environment. • Ability to take initiative by identifying problems, conceptualizing resolutions, and implementing change. • Ability to interpret and apply complex policies and procedures, develop innovative approaches and adapt to changes in policies and technologies. • Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills, analytical skills, ability to meet deadlines, and to manage projects across programs. • Demonstrated ability to proactively solve problems. Benefits: • Medical, dental and vision insurance • Employer paid group term life and disability • Employer contribution toward Health Savings Account • Flexible Spending Accounts • Paid Time Off (PTO), Paid Holidays and Paid Parental Leave • 403(b) with a 5% employer match • Various voluntary benefits: Supplemental Life, AD&D and Disability • Critical Illness, Accident and Hospital Indemnity coverage • Tuition assistance • Student loan servicing and support • Adoption benefits • Backup Childcare and Eldercare • Employee Assistance Program, and other specialized behavioral health services and resources for employees and family members • Discount on services at Lurie Children’s facilities • Discount purchasing program Apply tot his job Apply To this Job