Senior Workday Finance Analyst

HRTX; Philippines; On-site; PHP 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

HRTX is seeking a Senior Workday Finance Analyst in the Philippines to optimize Core Finance processes including Purchase-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash, and General Ledger. You will help define chart of accounts, posting rules, and close processes while liaising with local teams on VAT, payroll, and taxes within a unified global system landscape.

You will also support data migration, testing, and training, ensuring control-based audits and scalable processes as the business grows in a PLC environment.

Qualifications

• Ability to review and analyze data, identify issues and take corrective action.
• Attention to detail and accuracy in preparing accounts and reports.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills in a pressurized environment.
• Professional level of communication in verbal and written form.
• Focus on systems, processes and controls to minimize risks and enable scalability.
• Understanding of key drivers of the business model and tax/accounting impacts.
• Sound knowledge of IFRS accounting standards.
• Accounting qualification Fully Qualified.
• Sound accounting knowledge, including IFRS.
• Good finance exposure.
• Must have experience in 2-3 of: AP/AR.
• Strong Excel knowledge.
• Exposure to system design for finance is preferred but not essential.
• PLC reporting environment experience preferred but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a lean global chart of accounts for statutory and management reporting.
• Define and maintain account dimensions as building blocks for reporting.
• Define and maintain account posting rules ensuring policy compliance.
• Collaborate with local Finance and system consultants on VAT and sales taxes.
• Deliver finance integrations with system consultants and local teams.
• Define month and year-end close processes.
• Identify local reporting requirements with transformation and master data teams.
• Embed controls-based audit in Finance processes via system design.
• Educate local teams on Workday security groups and impact on processes.
• Support data migration mapping for GL, AP, AR, and bank history.
• Test configurations with local Finance to ensure fit-for-purpose processes.
• Prepare training material and train super users on new systems.

Skills

Data analysis

Attention to detail

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Problem solving

Process controls

Strong Excel knowledge

Education

Fully Qualified Accountant

Tools

Workday

Excel

ERP systems

Job description

About the job Senior Workday Finance Analyst

The scope of the role is Core Finance covering mainly Purchase-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash, General ledger and reporting.

Key aspects of the role are as follows:

• Maintenance of a lean global chart of accounts structure which delivers both statutory and management accounts.
• Account dimension definition and maintenance which are used as the building blocks to quality, value-add reporting and used as the basis for how we record financial transactions.
• Account posting rule definition and maintenance, which will use accounting knowledge ensuring compliance with policy and an ethos of one company one way.
• Collaboration with local Finance teams and system consultants to deliver local requirements for VAT and sales taxes.
• Integrations: Working with the system consultants and local Finance teams to deliver finance integrations that are fit for purpose (such as banking / digital VAT returns/payroll)
• Month and year close process definition

Reporting:

• Work with Finance Transformation, local Finance and Master Data & Reporting teams to identify, interpret and deliver local reporting requirements through the new systems landscape.

Security:

• Ensuring through system design that the objective of a controls-based audit is embedded within Finance processes.
• Education of local finance teams in relation to Workday security groups and impact on ways of working

Data Migration:

• Support the businesses in mapping financial history to Workday, including GL, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and bank.

Testing:

• Working with local Finance teams to ensure configuration and business processes operate as expected and are fit for purpose.

Training

• Preparation of training material for finance processes
• Training super users in new systems

Qualification

• Ability to review and analyze data, identify issues and take appropriate corrective action
• Attention to detail and accuracy in preparing accounts and supporting information
• Strong interpersonal skills are essential whilst working in a highly pressurized environment
• Professional level of communication in verbal and written form
• Focus on systems, processes and controls to ensure that risks are minimized, and processes are scalable as the business continues to grow
• An understanding of the key drivers of the business model and how developments or changes could impact ways of working and/ or accounting and tax processes.
• Sound knowledge of IFRS accounting standards
• Accounting qualification Fully Qualified
• Sound accounting knowledge, including IFRS
• Good Finance exposure
• Must have experience in 2-3 of the following: AP/AR:
• Strong Excel knowledge
• Exposure to system design for Finance is preferred but
  not essential
• Previous experience in a PLC reporting environment is
  preferred but not essential