Workday Finance Business Analyst

Unity Unity · Enterprise · United States · Remote · IT & Security

This role is for a Workday Finance Business Analyst responsible for the configuration, support, and continuous improvement of Workday Financials. The analyst will partner with the Finance organization, resolve issues, drive system enhancements, and collaborate with IT on cross-functional initiatives. Experience with Workday Financials modules, business requirements gathering, and finance/accounting concepts is required.

What you'd actually do

  1. Serve as the primary Workday Financials administrator and day-to-day support contact for the Finance team, triaging and resolving configuration issues, user requests, and system inquiries with a high degree of responsiveness and quality
  2. Diagnose and resolve Workday Financials configuration issues across modules, including Financial Accounting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Expenses, Procurement, and/or Banking & Settlement
  3. Partner with Finance stakeholders to gather, document, and translate business requirements into functional design specifications and Workday configuration solutions
  4. Support and deliver enhancements, new feature rollouts, and process improvements in Workday Financials, from requirements through testing and change management
  5. Participate in Workday semi-annual release cycles — reviewing release notes, assessing functional impact, coordinating user acceptance testing, and managing deployment

Skills

Required

  • Workday Financials configuration
  • Workday Financials support
  • Business analysis
  • Functional analysis
  • Workday Financial Management modules
  • Business process configuration
  • Validation rules configuration
  • Condition rules configuration
  • Security configuration
  • Stakeholder management
  • Requirements gathering
  • Gap analysis
  • Functional design documents
  • Finance concepts
  • Accounting concepts
  • GAAP
  • Month-end close
  • AP/AR workflows
  • Expense management

Nice to have

  • Workday Pro certification in Financial Management
  • SOX compliance experience
  • Workday Adaptive Planning
  • Workday Prism Analytics
  • Workday Reporting
  • Coupa
  • Workiva
  • Concur

What the JD emphasized

  • 3-5+ years of hands-on Workday Financials configuration and support experience in a business analyst or functional analyst capacity
  • Deep working knowledge of one or more Workday Financial Management modules, with the ability to configure business processes, validation rules, condition rules, and security independently
  • Demonstrated ability to support day-to-day Finance operations while simultaneously contributing to project-based work and strategic initiatives
  • Strong stakeholder management skills — you can navigate competing priorities, manage expectations across Finance and IT, and communicate clearly at all levels
  • Experience conducting business requirements gathering, gap analysis, and writing functional design documents
  • Solid understanding of core finance and accounting concepts (GAAP, month-end close, AP/AR workflows, expense management) and how they translate to Workday configuration
  • Highly organized, with the ability to manage multiple open requests and projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
  • Collaborative approach to problem-solving, with a track record of building trusted relationships with Finance business partners