Workday Financials Spend Analyst

This role focuses on supporting and enhancing the Workday Financials Spend module, which covers the procure-to-pay process. Responsibilities include triaging and resolving production issues, providing ongoing support, identifying opportunities for automation and process improvement, and delivering complex enhancements. The role requires Workday Spend or Financial Services certification and at least 2 years of experience with the Workday Financials Spend module.

What you'd actually do

  1. Review runbooks and common exception patterns (matching issues, worktag errors, stuck approvals).
  2. Triage and resolve production issues in requisitioning, purchasing, receiving, invoicing, and supplier maintenance.
  3. Coordinate with Accounting/Banking as needed when Spend issues impact posting or payment.
  4. Provide ongoing incident/request support (maintain SOPs, job aids, and knowledge articles for procurement/AP users).
  5. Support operational reporting and controls (aging, exception queues, throughput, compliance checkpoints).

Skills

Required

  • Workday Financials Spend module experience
  • Workday Spend Certification
  • Workday Financial Services Certification
  • Procure-to-pay process knowledge
  • Incident management
  • Process improvement identification
  • Reporting and controls support

Nice to have

  • Experience in a US Delivery Center model
  • Experience with Government & Public Services clients

What the JD emphasized

  • Workday Spend Certified
  • Workday Financial Services Certified
  • Workday Financials in Spend module