Analyst, Workday - Finance

Saks Fifth Avenue • New York, NY

1d • $92,000 - $120,000

About The Position

Exemplar Luxury Group, formerly Saks Global, is the luxury collective uniting coveted brands with unrivaled customer experiences across Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue and Bergdorf Goodman. Reporting directly to the Finance Squad Lead, the Workday Financial Analyst translates business and accounting requirements into scalable system solutions across our Workday Financial Management platform following our recent go-live. In this 3–5 year level role, you will provide broad functional support across the entire Finance suite designing functional updates, maintaining configurations, executing data loads, and supporting biannual release testing to ensure platform reliability.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of hands-on functional Workday Financials configuration and administration experience.
• Demonstrated track record configuring and supporting Workday Core Financials / GL, custom Worktags, and Business Process (BP) framework architecture.
• Hands-on functional configuration experience across multiple Finance modules (e.g., Accounts Receivable, Banking & Settlement, Procurement, Expenses, or Asset Management).
• Solid proficiency in creating, validating, and executing inbound/outbound EIBs with strong financial data accuracy discipline.
• Experience utilizing calculated fields to support accounting logic and conditional BP routing.
• Solid understanding of general accounting principles (GAAP/IFRS), financial period closes, and standard business-to-financial transaction workflows.
• Strong analytical problem-solving skills with experience operating in an agile team/squad environment and collaborating effectively with Finance business partners.

Nice To Haves

• Workday Financials Certification

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with Finance and Accounting stakeholders to capture operational requirements, user stories, and accounting logic, translating business challenges into clean functional designs and Workday configurations.
• Configure, test, and maintain business processes, validation rules, condition rules, and custom notifications across the end-to-end Workday Financials environment (General Ledger, Worktags, AR, Banking, Procurement, and Expenses).
• Create, validate, and execute Enterprise Interface Builders (EIBs) for mass accounting adjustments, customer invoices, asset additions, and periodic data maintenance initiatives.
• Drive release readiness by evaluating new financial features, building scenario-based test scripts, and executing regression testing during Workday's R1 and R2 biannual updates.
• Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve functional production tickets across financial modules, identifying root causes, configuring sustainable fixes, and supporting month-end close operations.

Benefits

• medical insurance
• dental insurance
• vision insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan
• basic life insurance
• supplemental life insurance
• disability insurance
• a variety of additional voluntary benefits (such as critical illness, hospital and accident insurance)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed