Sr. Analyst - Finance Functional Systems (Remote)

Stanford Health Care; United States; Remote; USD 179,804,000 - 236,965,000; Full time

Job summary

Stanford Health Care is seeking a Senior Analyst - Finance Functional Systems to serve as SME for Workday Financials, leading the design, configuration, and optimization of the ERP to support accurate, scalable financial operations.

The role requires hands-on Workday configuration experience and the ability to translate business needs into functional specifications, test plans, and documentation, while collaborating with Accounting, AP, Payroll, Procurement, HR, Finance, IT and other

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, or related field.
• At least five years hands-on Workday Financials configuration experience.
• Experience configuring Workday business processes and reporting.
• Ability to translate business needs into functional specifications.
• Strong documentation and stakeholder communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Serve as SME for core Workday finance domains.
• Translate business needs into detailed configuration specifications, functional designs, and testable requirements.
• Lead full testing cycles including test planning, script creation, execution oversight, and defect resolution.
• Support governance processes including change control, release readiness, and audit documentation.
• Collaborate with Accounting, AP, Payroll, Procurement, HR, Finance, Grants, Fixed Assets, Projects, Treasury, and IT teams to ensure system changes support business objectives.
• Identify process inefficiencies across GL, P2P, O2C, R2R, Payroll, grants, and projects; recommend automation or design improvements.

Skills

Workday Financials

Functional design

Root cause analysis

Stakeholder management

Documentation

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, or related field

Job description

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Day - 08 Hour (United States of America)

A Brief Overview

This is a Stanford Health Care job. The Senior Analyst - Finance Functional Systems serves as a functional subject matter expert (SME) for key Finance domains and leads the design, configuration, and optimization of Workday Financials. This role drives complex enhancements, leads testing cycles, resolves high impact issues, and partners with business stakeholders to improve end to end financial processes. The senior analyst provides deep functional expertise and ensures ERP supports accurate, efficient, and scalable financial operations.

This role requires hands on Workday configuration experience, strong analytical skills, and the ability to independently design and implement functional solutions.

Locations

Stanford Health Care

What you will do

• Functional Expertise and Advisory:
• Serve as SME for core Workday finance domains.
• Provide expert guidance on end to end processes, financial controls, and ERP capabilities.
• Ensure alignment with the ERP data model, including FDM and Account Posting Rules.
• System Governance and Intake Management:
• Translate business needs into detailed configuration specifications, functional designs, and testable requirements.
• Maintain high‑quality documentation including functional specs, configuration notes, test scripts, SOPs, and process flows.
• Support governance processes including change control, release readiness, and audit documentation.
• Configuration Quality and Controls Oversight:
• Lead configuration of complex business processes, validations, posting rules, condition logic, and reporting structures.
• Validate posting rules, business process flows, accounting results, and reporting logic before deployment.
• Perform deep root‑cause analysis and implement durable fixes that prevent recurrence.
• Resolve high complexity issues involving accounting data, integrations, or workflow behavior.
• Support configuration, testing, and functional ownership of other Finance Controller’s Office systems assigned to the Business Systems team, alongside Workday Financials.
• Functional Delivery & Roadmap Execution:
• Own functional delivery for enhancements, releases, and change requests.
• Lead full testing cycles including test planning, script creation, execution oversight, and defect resolution.
• Identify process inefficiencies across general ledger, procure to pay, order to cash, record to report, Payroll, grants, gifts, Business assets and project Management workflows.
• Recommend and implement automation, redesign, or configuration improvements to increase accuracy and efficiency.
• Cross‑Functional Alignment & Stakeholder Management:
• Partner with IT on integration, security, and technical escalations.
• Partner with Accounting, AP, Payroll, Procurement, HR, Finance, Grants, Fixed Assets, Projects, Treasury, and IT teams to ensure system changes support business objectives.
• Influence stakeholders by presenting options, impact analysis, and recommendations in clear business terms.
• Act as a liaison between business teams and technical partners to ensure alignment on requirements and outcomes.
• Release Management & Business Readiness:
• Support release readiness activities including testing, documentation, and communication.
• Validate configuration and testing outcomes prior to deployment.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, or related field.

Experience Qualifications

• Minimum of Five (5) years of hands on Workday Financials configuration experience.
• Demonstrated experience configuring Workday business processes, accounting center, allocation and financial frameworks, security groups.
• Demonstrated experience developing Workday advanced and composite Workday reports, calculated fields, and analytics datasets.
• Experience leading Workday enhancements, requirement gathering, functional design, and UAT cycles.
• Experience supporting general ledger, procure to pay, order to cash, record to report, period close, grants, gifts, business assets and project management.
• Experience with Workday release management, regression testing, and impact analysis.
• Experience collaborating with Accounting, Procurement, Payroll, and IT on cross functional initiatives.
• Experience supporting or implementing multiple finance systems in addition to Workday, including participation in system upgrades or new deployments.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Deep knowledge of Workday Financial.
• Ability to design and configure complex Workday solutions with minimal guidance.
• Ability to build Workday advanced reports and analytics datasets.
• Ability to diagnose complex functional issues and lead root cause analysis.
• Ability to lead cross functional discussions and influence stakeholders.
• Strong documentation skills (functional designs, test scripts, configuration notes).
• Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder influencing skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects, deadlines, and release cycles.
• Ability to operate in a multi‑system environment and understand how additional tools integrate with Workday and Finance processes.
• Familiarity of AIdriven tools that enhance financial processes and data accuracy.

These principles apply to ALL employees:

SHC Commitment to Providing an Exceptional Patient & Family Experience

Stanford Health Care sets a high standard for delivering value and an exceptional experience for our patients and families. Candidates for employment and existing employees must adopt and execute C-I-CARE standards for all of patients, families and towards each other. C-I-CARE is the foundation of Stanford’s patient-experience and represents a framework for patient-centered interactions. Simply put, we do what it takes to enable and empower patients and families to focus on health, healing and recovery.

You will do this by executing against our three experience pillars, from the patient and family’s perspective:

• Know Me: Anticipate my needs and status to deliver effective care
• Show Me the Way: Guide and prompt my actions to arrive at better outcomes and better health
• Coordinate for Me: Own the complexity of my care through coordination

**Equal Opportunity Employer Stanford Health Care (SHC) strongly values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity and non-discrimination in****all of **its policies and practices, including the area of employment. Accordingly, SHC does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity and/or expression, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or disability, or the perception of any of the above. People of all genders, members of all racial and ethnic groups, people with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply. Qualified applicants with criminal convictions will be considered after an individualized assessment of the conviction and the job requirements.

Base Pay Scale: Generally starting at $62.75 - $83.16 per hour

The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, internal equity, experience, education, specialty and training. This pay scale is not a promise of a particular wage.