Senior Workday Financial Analyst

SPAC Information Technology Inc; Taguig; Hybrid; PHP 670,000 - 1,339,000; Full time

Job summary

SPAC Information Technology Inc. seeks a Workday Specialist to support and advance the firm’s Workday Financial components.

You will act as the technology point of contact for financial areas and assist Finance teams in planning, implementing and improving systems and processes. The role involves implementation, configuration and ongoing support of Workday applications, collaboration with local Finance teams for VAT and sales tax, and ensuring robust month-end and year-end close processes.

Qualifications

• Experience with Workday Financial modules and reporting tools.
• Strong knowledge of IFRS accounting standards.
• Able to map finance processes to system configurations.
• Experience in implementing, configuring and supporting Workday.
• Ability to work with cross‑functional teams and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support and advance Workday Financial components across Finance.
• Collaborate with local Finance teams to deliver local VAT and sales tax requirements.
• Define and support month/year end close processes.
• Develop and maintain business processes, validations and rules.
• Ensure security configurations and Workday access controls are properly applied.

Skills

Workday knowledge

IFRS understanding

Attention to detail

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Financial processes

Education

Accounting qualification – Fully Qualified

Tools

Workday Reporting

Workday Adaptive

Office Connect & Worksheets

Job description

Working Arrangement

Hybrid (2x a week RTO) (Mid Shift)

Responsibilities

Part of a team of Workday Specialists, the role is fundamental to supporting and advancing FINS usage of the core Workday Financial components. The Analyst serves as a Technology point of contact for financial functional areas and assists Finance teams to identify, plan, and implement systems and process improvements. The role will involve implementation, configuration, and support of Workday applications.

Key aspects of the role are as follows:

• Support of planning, budgeting, forecasting, and scenario modelling activities.
• 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
  • Skilled in creating, updating and developing business processes, custom validations, condition rules
  • Familiar with Worktags and its usages
  • Knowledgeable with Workday Reporting, custom reports, composite, advance, BIRT, etc
  • Familiar with security configurations and their functions
  • Knowledgeable with Workday Adaptive, office connect and worksheets
• Must have experience in 2-3 of the following: AP/AR; Banking; Journals;

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.
• Develop and support management and board‑level reporting within Workday Adaptive Planning.

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
• Early life support for businesses post deployment

Functional and technical skills

• Attention to detail and accuracy in preparing accounts and supporting information
• Strong interpersonal skills are essential whilst working in a highly pressurised environment
• Professional level of communication in verbal and written form
• Focus on systems, processes and controls to ensure that risks are minimised, 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