Senior Workday Financials Lead — Remote Analytics & Solutions

Eliassen Group; Sacramento (CA); Remote; USD 76,000 - 83,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision benefits

401k with company match

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Principal Business Systems Analyst to lead advanced Workday Financials solutioning, configuration, and support. Remote, w2, and contract-based, the role covers financial accounting, banking/treasury, procurement, supplier and customer accounts, expenses, and assets.

You will design workflows, develop reports, mentor peers, and drive cross-functional initiatives with IT and vendors to ensure optimal system performance.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant experience with Workday Financials.
• Hands-on support for Financial Accounting, Banking, Procurement, Suppliers, Customers, Expenses, and Assets.
• Advanced Business Process and Custom Validation configuration.
• Strong troubleshooting and production support.
• Lead requirements gathering, testing, and implementation.
• Experience with Workday Reporting, dashboards, and security.

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

Financial Accounting

Procurement

Reporting & Analytics

Security Configurations

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree

Workday certifications

Tools

EIB

Workday Studio

Core Connector

Adaptive Planning

Prism Analytics

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Principal Business Systems Analyst to lead advanced Workday Financials solutioning, configuration, and support. Remote, w2, and contract-based, the role covers financial accounting, banking/treasury, procurement, supplier and customer accounts, expenses, and assets.

You will design workflows, develop reports, mentor peers, and drive cross-functional initiatives with IT and vendors to ensure optimal system performance.