Senior Manager, Workday Financials

Overview

Job Locations:
Norwalk, CT, USA
Remote – United States, Pennsylvania
Remote – United States, Texas
Remote – United States, Massachusetts
Remote – United States, Illinois
Remote – United States, Missouri
Remote – United States, Wyoming
Remote – United States, Maine
Remote – United States, California
Remote – United States, Washington
Remote – United States, Florida
Remote – United States, Virginia
Remote – United States, Minnesota
Remote – United States, Connecticut
Remote – United States, Colorado
Remote – United States, Iowa
Remote – United States, Kansas
Remote – United States, Georgia
Remote – United States, Alabama
Remote – United States, Wisconsin
Remote – United States, Idaho

The Workday Financials initiative is part of the Finance Transformation Program at FactSet.  Expanding Workday Financials is viewed as a project to drive profitability, support global sales goals, and make us nimble to meet the current complex business environment that we operate in.

With a wealth of learning and career development opportunities, and best of breed technology platforms across our internal and external ecosystems, we make sure our people continue to grow both professionally and personally. If you're looking for an organization with a strong team connection where you can be your whole self, have an impact, advance your skills, deepen your experiences, and have the flexibility and access to constantly find new areas of inspiration and expand your capabilities, you have come to the right place.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading initiatives in Workday Finance, with an emphasis on Customer Accounts, Customer Contracts, Revenue, and Billing
• As part of a larger team, manages the administration of the Workday system including system configuration, maintaining security, data audits and corrections, and introduction of new functionality.
• Manage twice a year mandatory release.
• Identify, recommend, and track opportunities for process and operational improvements.
  Analyze problems, formulate solutions and alternatives, and deliver solutions that achieve desired results in a timely and cost-efficient manner.
• Design, develop, and support custom Advanced, Composite and Matrix Reports.  Business Process Validation Rules, Calculated Fields and EIBs
• Resident expert in the Workday Financials product suite and ensure business partners take advantage of best practices
• Implement standards and best practices for supporting Financial Systems used by the Finance organization
• Maintain a thorough understanding of the accounting system design, particularly related to data flow

Minimum Requirements:

• 5+ Years of experience in Workday Financials implementation or support role 

Critical Skills:

• Workday Customer Accounts and Contracts certification and a minimum of three successful implementations
• Lead to Cash domain expertise
• Experience with 3rd-party tax services
• Customer Focused – personally demonstrate that both external and internal customers are a high priority by identifying and responding to their needs in a timely and efficient manner

Additional Desired/Skills:

• Experience with Professional Service Automation (PSA)
• Revenue accounting experience
• Initiative – Recognizes opportunities and initiates actions to capitalize on them by looking for a new and productive ways to make an impact
• Capable of writing Standard, Advanced, Matrix and Composite reports. Experience with creating complex calculated fields, custom objects
• Must be experienced user of MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, Access, PowerPoint; In Excel, must have ability to create pivot tables, v/lookups).
• Ability to act quickly and iterate to achieve results
• Building Organizational Commitment – Demonstrates commitment, integrity and appreciation for the organization

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Accounting, MIS, Engineering or Computer Science

The budgeted salary range for this position in the states of California, Connecticut and New York is $150,000.00 – $170.000.00.

At FactSet, we celebrate diversity of thought, experience, and perspective. We are committed to disrupting bias and a transparent hiring process.  All qualified applicants will be considered for employment regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status. FactSet participates in E-Verify.

FactSet is an Equal Opportunity Employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity