Associate - Workday Technical Expert

Ankura is a team of excellence founded on innovation and growth.

Role Responsibilities

• Understand the overall finance, accounting, HR and payroll setup of Workday, including overall functional usage of Workday at Ankura
• Understand Ankura’s Workday security including adjusting domains and security groups
• Build scalable and performant data integrations using SOAP, RaaS, WQL APIs offered by Workday.
• Design, configure, and test integrations between Workday and external systems using Enterprise Integration Builder (EIB) and other Workday tools. Support data conversion efforts for acquisitions as needed.
• Report Writer & Owner: Create, maintain, and process standard and custom ad-hoc reports and dashboards, to meet business needs
• Build regression and acceptance test scenarios working closely with business process owners
• Monitor the system for problems and identify and implement corrective and preventive measures
• Perform Workday administrative functions including business process and tenant configuration.
• Monitor and troubleshoot integrations and BPs supporting finance processes, determine root cause, and implement solutions
• Build regression and acceptance test scenarios working closely with business process owners
• Participate in Workday release preparation, including monitoring Workday Community for new release functionality. Coordinating with impacted business units to make required configuration/ content / reporting / integration changes.

Leverage Workday knowledge and expertise to identify and recommend opportunities for process improvements, advise stakeholders on options, risks and any impacts on other processes or systems

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Workday administration and configuration experience required
• Experience with HCM and finance business processes and security and how to best leverage Workday to automate processes.
• Thorough knowledge about Workday business objects modules and process flows.
• Proficiency in setting up and managing security configurations, roles, and permissions within Workday. Understanding of domain security policies and their application.
• Experience building customizations, e.g., BIRT’s, integrations, using Workday Studio.
• Advanced workday report writing capabilities.
• Project experience with gathering requirements, architecting system configuration, leading testing, and implementation.
• Ability to work through complex issues and challenges and present business stakeholders with clear options for solutioning.

What Could Set You Apart

• Experience in the Workday Adaptive module
• Experience working in the professional services industry.
• Technology, information security and programming skills.

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