Workday Finance Technical Lead

Position: Workday Finance Technical, Integrations and Reporting LeadLocation: Hybrid - Providence, RI [3 days onsite, 2 remote]Contract Term: 2 Months from projected start date - Possible Extension Reporting Responsibilities:• Serve as the Workday Finance reporting domain authority providing best practices and standards.• Analytics Development: develop, design, deliver, and maintain simple to complex Workday reports and dashboards, including calculated fields, Workday slides, worksheets, report groups, discovery boards, matrix and composite reports, custom objects, and report drilling.• Utilizes Workday report writer, report designer and Prism, as well as other organizational tools and available technologies with a focus on design and performance.• Develop complex calculated fields, maintaining the standards and integrity of the data.• Create and maintain standardized real-time dashboards displaying key metrics and insights for business leaders in a visually appealing manner, utilizing the full analytics suite.• Work with business partners and COE's to document report requirements, design, develop and deliver reports.• Develops and delivers training to support self-service reporting, data literacy, scheduling, and best practices.• Organizes and monitors persona-based report packages and inventory to maximize self-service reporting functionality and minimize ad-hoc report requests.• Communicate complex information so that it is easy to understand and influences business owners to take action based on the useful information provided to enable data-driven decision-making.• Lead the preparation and delivery of complex Finance reports; manage project deliverables, milestones, and specified project tasks.• Review the effectiveness of reporting solutions, improve current reports, or operationalize new reports/methods as needed.• Partner with the Finance Systems team on leveraging Workday and executing implementation plan for bi-annual upgrades to the reporting, analytics, and planning areas.• Perform UAT and obtain sign-off for production deployments.• Lead Prism strategy and development of metrics, reporting and dashboards based on business strategy and insights; establish checkpoints on results and impacts.• Develop a deep understanding of data structures and data sources within Workday and Prism to extract relevant information for reporting purposes.• Data Governance: Establish and maintain data governance processes and standards to ensure data accuracy, consistency, quality, and security within the Workday Finance platform. Understand and ensure security and data privacy standards are followed.• Maintains all people resources reporting inventory to ensure consistent naming, descriptions, tagging, formatting, filters, and share permissions.• Facilitate the capture, development, and analysis of organizational and talent data for strategic insights from external sources into Workday.• Partner with business owners to examine internal and external employee data trends and provide recommendations.• Strong knowledge of Finance process, policies, and data structures, with an ability to translate business requirements into effective reporting solutions.• Ability to collect, coordinate, analyze and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy and with highly confidential data.• Understand complexities and nuances with reporting on different organization hierarchies.• Prior experience with data governance, auditing, developing standards, and documentation. Technical/Administrative ResponsibilitiesAdvanced Security Administration:• Provides security administration support for all business areas including researching & resolving issues with role-based assignments, domains and creating custom security groups to enable business process and reporting access to cross-functional users.• Leads design, creation, configuration, workflow, testing, training, auditing, implementation, and administration of Workday basic and advanced security.• Recommends best security practices and solutions to support end to end business processes and reporting requirements.• Maintains data integrity and security of the Workday system by running periodic audit reports, analyzing system usage metrics and maintains role and user-based security groups, reviewing and revising Workday system security policies and security groups in order to deliver the access required for the position’s responsibilities while protecting PII and access to information not relevant to their position.• Works with management, Human Resources, and Workday Product Analysts upon creation of new position, transfer of workers, and change of Job Family to ensure correct access when position overlaps require extended access from previous position.Technical Support & Continuous Improvement Releases:• Participates in meetings with business and/or project teams when appropriate to discuss projects, progress, and issues to be resolved.• Collaborates with Product Analysts and business units to streamline processes and promote user adoption using Workday.• Partners with Product Analysts and Business Units when needed to assist in design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance using Workday delivered tools.• Assists team members and system users with issues by investigating problems and resolving or providing detailed recommendations on resolutions.• Gathers, builds, tests, and documents technical requirements for enhancements and projects.• Responsible for Object Transportation of configuration packages from Customer Central. Requirements:• 5+ years’ experience with the Workday application to include advanced reporting proficiency.• 5+ years of experience in Workday Integrations working on large Workday initiatives.• 5+ years of experience with Workday Studio (minimum of 10 Studio integrations), Workday Report Writer, Calculated fields Workday Extend, CCB, BIRT, EIBs, Core Connectors, Integration System User (ISU), Integration System Security Group (ISSG)• 5+ years of hands-on experience configuring, developing and testing on the Workday platform (Proficient with Integrations, Integration Security, Workday Studio, Cloud Connect, EIBs, BIRT, Calculated Fields, Report Writer, XML, XSLT, SOAP and Rest APIs)• 5+ years Finance data analysis experience, including the ability to understand business requirements, user needs and translate them into operational requirements.• 2+ years’ experience with Workday Prism Analytics.• Deep Workday Reporting expertise using BIRT, dashboards, embedded analytics, EIBs, Core Connectors, Studio integrations and composite reporting.• 3+ years of experience with Workday security in relation to reporting.• 3+ years of experience within Agile Scrum methodology.• Experience with JSON, SOAP & REST style web services• Solid understanding of Workday's business object model and relationships• Understanding of Workday functional modules so that you can create technology connections (including but not limited to: Finance, HCM, Talent Management, Benefits, Time Tracking, Absence, Payroll)• Strong analytical skills, proven experience understanding and effectively implementing Workday integrations across all Workday modules.• 3+ years of experience within Agile Scrum methodology• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, outstanding organizational skills and attention to detail• Strong expertise in project management, business analysis, gathering and documenting requirements.• Strong attention to detail, problem solving, troubleshooting and analytical skills.• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and handle both planned and unplanned responsibilities.• Ability to prioritize workload and execute tasks independently, providing timely follow-up and resolution.• Ability to work independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.• Minimum of 1-3 years' experience in a similar position supporting Workday Integrations or Workday Security or Workday Extend and possessing a technical development background.• Advanced skills in Workday Studio, API(s), XML and XSLT and interaction with SOAP and ReST based web services, EIB, Core Connectors, reporting, use of RaaS, Integration Security, Calculated Fields and Microsoft Office Suite.• Advanced skills in applying Role-based and User-Based Security and Domains.• Advanced business and Workday systems analysis skills.• Intermediate skills in Agile delivery management• Provide the highest level of customer support via internal ticketing system.• Demonstrated ability to influence and work effectively and collaboratively with various business partnerships, and to promote effective collaboration between teams.• Discipline to work with highly confidential information and ability to critically analyze data input/output for accuracy and effectiveness.