Senior Workday Analyst, Finance

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Act as the primary platform resource for Workday Payroll.

• Collaborate on configurations for employee benefits.

• Oversee the resolution of intricate payroll calculations, retroactive adjustments, and posting challenges.

• Ensure payroll readiness for year-end processes and tax submissions.

• Function as the technical lead for Workday Financial Management, encompassing Financial Accounting, procurement, expenses, banking and settlement, budgets, grants, and reporting.

• Manage the Workday Adaptive Planning platform.

• Direct the Finance domain design for configuration modifications and regression testing.

• Handle substantial financial data sets and determine suitable data integration methods.

• Act as the escalation point for complicated Finance, Payroll, and Adaptive support tickets.

• Provide mentorship to the Workday Analyst, Finance, and Finance team members.

• Collaborate with the Senior Workday Analyst, HRIS, on cross-domain matters such as worktags, benefits, and cost allocations.

⛳️ Requirements

• Must be a California resident.

• Strong, practical understanding of finance fundamentals: payroll and payroll accounting, GAAP, month-end and year-end closing, reconciliation, internal controls, and audit preparedness.

• Proven hands-on experience with Workday Payroll, Workday Financial Management, and Workday Adaptive Planning.

• Advanced data manipulation skills: working with large data sets in Excel or SQL, developing advanced and composite Workday reports and calculated fields, and accurately executing EIB loads.

• Experience in a high-growth or organizational transformation setting.

• Insight into how finance processes and systems should scale together.

• Capability to collaborate across Finance, IT, and Business Systems.

• Proficiency in aligning stakeholders with competing priorities and building trust without direct authority.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary.

• Generous paid time off (PTO).

• Paid holidays.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance plans.

• Flexible Spending Accounts.

• Health Savings Accounts (HSA).

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

• Wellness initiatives.

• CalPERS retirement program.

• Optional 403(b) and 457 retirement plans.

• Carrot reproductive health and fertility assistance.

• Tuition reimbursement.

• Certified employer for Public Service Loan Forgiveness.

• Fully remote positions available throughout California.