Senior Workday Analyst, Finance

Overview

This position is a Senior Workday Analyst, Finance role within the organization’s Business Systems team, accountable for Workday’s Finance function with a heavy emphasis on Payroll. The role serves as a key escalation point for complex Finance, Payroll, and Adaptive Planning issues and partners with the Senior Workday Analyst, HRIS on cross-domain topics such as worktags, benefits, and costing allocations.

Responsibilities

Payroll and Benefits

• Serve as the accountable platform resource for Workday Payroll.
• Partner with the Senior Workday Analyst, HRIS on employee benefit configurations.
• Lead resolution of complex payroll calculation, retro, and posting issues.
• Own payroll readiness for year-end and tax filings.

Workday Finance and Adaptive Planning

• Serve as the technical lead for Workday Financial Management (including Financial Accounting, procurement, expenses, banking and settlement, budgets, grants, and reporting).
• Administer Workday Adaptive Planning as a platform.
• Lead Finance-domain design for configuration changes and regression testing.

Data Management and Integrations

• Work confidently with large financial data sets.
• Select the appropriate approach for each data movement integration.

Support and Partnerships

• Act as the escalation point for complex Finance, Payroll, and Adaptive tickets.
• Serve as a cross-functional mentor and subject matter expert to the Workday Analyst, Finance and Finance team members.

Requirements

• Strong, practical command of finance fundamentals, including:
  • Payroll and payroll accounting
  • GAAP
  • Month-end and year-end close
  • Reconciliation
  • Internal controls
  • Audit readiness
• Hands-on expertise in Workday Payroll, Workday Financial Management, and Workday Adaptive Planning.
• Advanced data skills, including:
  • Manipulating large data sets in Excel or SQL
  • Building advanced and composite Workday reports and calculated fields
  • Executing EIB loads accurately
• Experience in a high-growth or organizational transformation environment, with judgment for how finance processes and systems need to scale together.
• Ability to build consensus and work across Finance IT and Business Systems, aligning stakeholders with competing priorities and earning trust without direct authority.

Preferred Qualifications

• None specified.

Compensation & Benefits

• Budgeted Annual Salary Pay Range: $110,000.00 - $135,000.00
• Final salary and rates are based on education, experience, skills relevant to the role, and internal equity.

Benefits include:

• Competitive compensation, generous PTO, and paid holidays
• Medical, dental, and vision plans
• Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Wellness offerings
• CalPERS retirement program and optional 403(b) and 457 Retirement plans
• Carrot reproductive health and fertility support
• Tuition reimbursement
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness certified employer

Location

• 100% Remote within California
• Must reside in California