Senior Workday Analyst, Finance

Overview

This position is 100% remote within California; applicants must reside in California.

The organization is seeking a Senior Workday Analyst, Finance to own and optimize the Workday Finance function with a heavy emphasis on Payroll. The role serves as an escalation point for complex issues and partners with the Senior Workday Analyst, HRIS on cross-domain items 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 technical lead for Workday Financial Management (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 appropriate methods 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
  • 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 scaling finance processes and systems together
• Ability to build consensus and align stakeholders with competing priorities without direct authority

Preferred Qualifications

• Not 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

• Competitive compensation, generous PTO, and paid holidays
• Medical, dental, and vision plans; Flexible Spending Accounts; 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
• Applicants must reside in California
• Headquarters are located in Downtown Sacramento, just blocks from California’s State Capitol.