Workday Systems Analyst

LHH Technology is seeking an experienced Workday Systems Analyst to join our client's team in a full-time role located in sunny San Diego, CA.

This role requires an experienced Workday Business Analyst with a strong finance and accounting background to support, configure, and optimize Workday Financials. The position focuses on understanding and maintaining the end‑to‑end Workday finance and accounting setup, including Financial Accounting, Accounts Payable and Receivable, Banking, Procurement, and Projects. Responsibilities include performing Workday administrative functions such as business process, tenant, and security configuration; monitoring and troubleshooting integrations and finance-related business processes; leading Workday release planning and impact analysis; and coordinating configuration, testing, and deployment activities. The role partners closely with finance and accounting stakeholders to gather and document requirements, maintain design workbooks, recommend process improvements, and ensure scalable, low‑customization solutions aligned with organizational standards. Additional responsibilities include designing and testing simple integrations using Workday tools, supporting data conversion efforts, owning cutover activities for go‑lives, building regression and acceptance test scenarios, and creating and maintaining standard and ad‑hoc reports and dashboards to support business needs.

Salary & Benefits:

• Salary Range: $80k to $110k
• Retirement Plan with Employer Match
• Paid Time Off, Extended Sick Leave and Paid Holidays
• Medical/Dental/Vision/FSA/Life Insurance
• Employee Discounts and Wellness Programs

Qualifications:

• Required: 3+ years of experience as a Business Analyst working on Workday ERP Elevation, Integrations or Implementations. Key Workday module experience with: Financial Accounting, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Banking, Procurement and Projects.
• Required: 2+ years of experience as an accountant or financial professional prior to specializing in Workday ERP software as a Functional (not technical) professional.
• An Accounting Degree would substitute for experience working as an accounting professional in accounting.
• Required: Experience performing Workday administrative functions including business process and tenant configuration. Monitor and troubleshoot integrations and BPs supporting finance processes, determine root cause, and implement solutions.
• Very Nice To Have: Experience with security and how to best leverage Workday to automate processes.
• Very Nice To Have: Experience building regression and acceptance test scenarios working closely with business process owners.
• Very Nice To Have: Experience evaluating, communicating, and coordinating the technical impacts of Workday configuration decisions.
• Very Nice To Have: Experience Design, configure, and test simple integrations between Workday and external systems using Enterprise Integration Builder (EIB) and other Workday tools. Support data conversion efforts for acquisitions as needed.
• Very Nice To Have: Experience architecting system configuration, leading testing, and implementation.
• Very Nice To Have: Ability to work through complex issues and challenges and present business stakeholders with clear options for solutioning.

Responsibilities:

• Monitor the system for problems and identify and implement corrective and preventive measures.
• Understand the overall finance/accounting setup of Workday, including overall functional usage of Workday.
• 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.
• Understand Workday security including adjusting domains and security groups. Maintain the roles (for all business functional areas) related to security groups; this includes working with functional areas to assign and change roles depending on job function.
• Lead the Workday release preparation, including monitoring Workday Community for new release functionality. Coordinating with impacted business units to make required configuration/ content / reporting / integration changes.
• Analyze and manage Workday releases, assess impacts including architecting, configuring, prototyping, testing, and deploying updates.
• Leverage business knowledge and expertise to identify and recommend opportunities for process improvements, advise stakeholders on options, risks, and any impacts on other processes or systems.
• Coordinate with finance and accounting team to understand and document business requirements and use cases, design, and configure Workday. Maintain design workbooks.
• Ensure that recommendations from implementation partner fit Sees standards of minimum customization, maximum scalability.
• Evaluate, communicate, and coordinate the technical impacts of Workday configuration decisions.
• Build regression and acceptance test scenarios working closely with business process owners.
• Responsible for owning and updating the cutover activities for project go live.
• Design, configure, and test simple 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.

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