Senior Specialist focusing on Workday Financials configuration and reporting at Dun & Bradstreet. Ensuring financial data integrity through integrations and reporting tools.
Responsibilities
Role focused on Workday Financials, particularly covering configuration, integration, and reporting.
Foundational Data Model (FDM) Maintenance: Maintain and update Workday’s Foundational Data Model – the multi-dimensional chart of accounts (work tags) framework that underpins all financial transactions and reporting.
Workday Financials Configuration: Configure and support the Procurement, Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivables (AR), Banking, General Ledger (GL), Assets and Workday Projects modules in Workday Financial Management.
Integration Development (Workday Studio): Design, develop, test, and deploy integrations between Workday and other internal or third-party systems using Workday Studio.
Reporting and Analytics Support: Develop and maintain custom reports and dashboards for all Workday financial modules using Workday’s reporting tools.
Compliance and Best Practices: Ensure Workday configurations and integrations adhere to internal controls, data security policies, and compliance requirements.
Continuous Improvement: Stay up-to-date with Workday’s semi-annual release updates, especially new features related to Financial Management and Integration.
Documentation and Training: Create and maintain detailed documentation for configurations, integration designs, workflows, and any custom solutions implemented.
Requirements
Workday Experience: Minimum 5 years of hands-on Workday experience with a focus on Workday Financials. This should include direct experience with Procurement, Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivables (AR), Banking, General Ledger (GL), Assets and Workday Projects modules (e.g., implementing or supporting these functions in Workday).
Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Information Technology Systems, Computer Science, or a related field.
Workday Pro Certification: Certification through the Workday Pro program in one or more areas.
Integration Skills: Strong experience in developing Workday integrations. Must be proficient with Workday Studio for building complex integrations. Familiarity with other integration tools such as EIB, Cloud Connectors, and Workday Web Services (SOAP and REST APIs) is required. Ability to troubleshoot and optimize integration processes is essential.
FDM Knowledge: In-depth knowledge of Workday’s Foundational Data Model (FDM) and its components (Worktags, hierarchies, ledgers, etc.). Ability to manage and modify the chart of accounts/worktags to meet organizational changes (such as new companies, cost centers, spend/revenue categories, etc.), while ensuring data consistency across Workday Financials.
Workday Reporting: Proficiency in creating and modifying Workday reports. Experience with Workday Report Writer, including building Advanced and Matrix reports, and using Calculated Fields. Capable of designing custom reports for finance (e.g., spend reports, GL summaries, supplier analysis) and tailoring them to user requirements.
Experience with Composite Reports or Workday Dashboards is a plus.
Analytical & Problem-Solving: Strong analytical skills with the ability to understand.
Excellent communication skills, Collaborate with Functional Leads in all Workday financial modules to understand their requirements, identify process improvements or enhancements to existing processes, propose solutions, prioritize key deliverables, align activities with the overall objectives and manage dependencies.
Configure, facilitate testing, deploy and support the change management for delivered solutions in coordination with the functional leads, including reporting and any impacts to integrations.
Monitor and review system upgrades, releases and security configurations to determine overall business impact, conduct regression testing and make recommendations for future enhancements/functionality.
Maintain strict confidentiality to protect employees and financial data privacy.
Highly organized with ability to multi-task and prioritize effectively while demonstrating a sense of urgency.
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