Workday Financials Lead - PRI Technology : Job Details

Information Technology – Workday Financials Lead

Full-time/Permanent, with bonus and benefits

Hybrid remote - 3 days a week onsite in NYC.

The Workday Financials Lead will be responsible for the ongoing administration and maintenance of all currently deployed Workday FINS modules (Core Financials, Customer Accounts, Projects, Project Billing, Revenue Management, Expenses, Procurement, Supplier Accounts, Banking and Settlement, Business Assets). Tasks include configuration, business process design, account management, user and data security, and reporting. Additional general responsibilities include monitoring application performance, managing semi-annual feature releases, managing annual audit processes, and adhering to Workday best practices and our Firm's defined standards.

The Lead will work with other Workday team members, senior management within both the Information Technology and Finance departments, and end users. The successful candidate will exhibit superior ability with respect to: independence, organizational habits and abilities, analytical thought/problem solving, communication (both written and oral), self-motivation, inquisitiveness, and attention to detail.

Essential Functions:

• Partner with our Finance and Accounting team to design and deliver technology-based solutions using Workday and potentially other independent application platforms

• Learn relevant Finance and Accounting business concepts in order to better leverage Workday functionality to help the team operate more efficiently

• Identify and suggest opportunities to enhance and improve current processes

• Maintain user security models and perform required control procedures including our annual privileged user recertification process

• Manage data level access controls for existing functionality as well as provide analysis to accurately implement access for new functionality

• Provide Business Process workflow support to application users

• Configure new Business Processes as our systems continue to evolve to support the needs of our growing firm

• Support the reporting needs of our users by creating and deploying custom reports or working with vendors with whom we have engaged to provide deeper reporting capabilities

• Analyze and manage semi-annual Workday feature releases

• Aid users in the resolution of functional or technical application issues that arise in their day to day work

Skills:

• Possess strong analytical and problem solving skills

• Manage highly visible, fast-paced, and deadline driven projects

• Exhibit superior organizational abilities and habits in order to juggle multiple tasks and projects concurrently

• Must be proactive, a self-starter who understands their role and the importance of their work within both Information Technology and Finance and Accounting.

• Must communicate clearly and with appropriate frequency to all levels of the organization

• Must be creative and flexible in order to respond quickly and positively to shifting demands and requirements

• Must be a team-oriented person who can share information, goals, opportunities, successes and failures with the appropriate parties

• Must pay attention to detail and have the ability to follow up and follow through

• Possess a natural curiosity about, and interest in learning, Workday's Business Process Framework and functional configuration across the entire platform

• Demonstrate a process-minded approach to project management and delivery

Qualifications, Education and Experience:

• At least 5+ years of experience as an accountant in a global multi-company, multi-currency, organization

• At least 3+ years of experience with enterprise resource planning systems (e.g SAP, Oracle, Dynamics, Workday), with a strong preference given to Workday

• Operational experience with Intercompany accounting concepts, including the impact of FX rates on financial transactions

• Understanding of VAT accounting, reporting, and the resulting impact on Customer and Supplier invoicing

• Significant experience with project billing and customer invoicing

• Knowledge of Workday (or other ERP) reporting frameworks

• Understanding of Workday (or other ERP) domain and business process security model

• Experience in fast-paced, client service-driven environments (ideally consulting or financial services industries)

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent