Workday Financials Lead — Remote Contract

Eliassen Group; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 76,000 - 83,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k with company match

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Principal Business Systems Analyst to lead advanced Workday Financials configuration and support. You will drive business process design, analytics, and production support across Financial Accounting, Banking and Treasury, Procurement, and more in a remote, W2 setting.

The role emphasizes leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and strategic solution delivery, with a focus on delivering robust Workday capabilities and scalable processes.

Qualifications

• 10+ years relevant experience with Workday Financials.
• Hands-on support across Financial Accounting, Banking, Procurement, Suppliers, Customers, Expenses, and Business Assets.
• Strong troubleshooting, production support, and root cause analysis.
• Leadership of requirements gathering, testing, and implementation.
• Workday certifications beneficial.

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 Analysis

Financial Systems

Leadership

Stakeholder Management

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Workday

EIB Integrations

Prism Analytics

Studio & Core Connector

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Principal Business Systems Analyst to lead advanced Workday Financials configuration and support. You will drive business process design, analytics, and production support across Financial Accounting, Banking and Treasury, Procurement, and more in a remote, W2 setting.

The role emphasizes leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and strategic solution delivery, with a focus on delivering robust Workday capabilities and scalable processes.