Senior Workday Financials Lead – Remote

Eliassen Group; Saint Paul (MN); Remote; USD 114,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Principal Business Systems Analyst to lead advanced Workday Financials solutioning, configuration, and support. This role drives complex business process design, reporting, and analytics across Financial Accounting, Banking, Procurement, and more, with a focus on production support and stakeholder collaboration.

The candidate will mentor junior team members, triage system issues, and coordinate with IT, Workday, and vendors for long-term solutions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant Workday Financials experience.
• Hands-on support for Financial Accounting, Banking, Procurement, Suppliers, Customers, Expenses, and Business Assets.
• Advanced Workday configuration and Calculated Field development.
• Strong troubleshooting, production support, and root cause analysis.
• Leadership of requirements gathering, testing, and implementation.
• Plus: Workday Reporting/Dashboards, Integrations, and security administration.

Responsibilities

• Provide advanced Workday Financials expertise and business acumen to solve highly complex issues and anticipate downstream impacts.
• Serve as functional and technical expert across Financial Accounting, Business Assets, Customer Accounts, Supplier Accounts, Banking and Treasury, Procurement, Expenses, Security, and Reporting and Analytics.
• Act as a super user and trusted advisor on system capabilities, process optimization, controls, and best practices.
• Lead analysis, design, configuration, and implementation of solutions that may impact multiple business areas and applications.
• Design and maintain complex Workday Business Processes, approval workflows, condition rules, security configurations, custom validations, and calculated fields.
• Develop and maintain advanced reports and dashboards to support decision‑making.
• Quantify business impacts and recommend solutions to stakeholders.
• Coordinate user support for complex inquiries, service requests, and production issues.
• Drive data and trend analysis and process improvement in partnership with business and IT.
• Mentor and coach junior team members on Workday capabilities and consulting skills.
• Lead triage for system failures, drive troubleshooting and root cause analysis, and coordinate near-term and long-term fixes with IT, Workday, and vendors.
• Develop support processes and manage daily resolution of production issues, configuration defects, data issues, and user errors.
• Use EIBs and data management tools for data loads, mass updates, corrections, testing, and automation.
• Document, track, and report system support activities and resolutions.
• Lead requirements elicitation, analysis, and documentation aligned to enterprise objectives.
• Serve as Business Lead for complex projects, overseeing intake, prioritization, specifications, configuration, testing, deployment, and hypercare.
• Partner with teams to implement new Workday functionality, enhancements, and process improvements.
• Lead testing strategy, test plans, scenarios, execution, and readiness assessments. Train others on testing best practices.
• Coordinate with partners on impacts from Workday releases, updates, security changes, integrations, and architecture enhancements.
• Configure and maintain Workday Financials across environments, including Business Processes, Custom Validations, Calculated Fields, Security roles and policies (awareness), Financial reports and dashboards, and EIB integrations and data loads.
• Govern configuration accuracy and compliance with change control.

Skills

Workday Financials

Business Process Design

Reporting & Analytics

Stakeholder Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or advanced degree preferred

8+ years in Business Systems Analysis/ERP/Financial Systems

Tools

EIB

Data Loads

Security Configuration

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Principal Business Systems Analyst to lead advanced Workday Financials solutioning, configuration, and support. This role drives complex business process design, reporting, and analytics across Financial Accounting, Banking, Procurement, and more, with a focus on production support and stakeholder collaboration.

The candidate will mentor junior team members, triage system issues, and coordinate with IT, Workday, and vendors for long-term solutions.