Senior Workday Analyst, Finance

Foundation for California Community Colleges•US CA Remote, CA

1d•$110,000 - $135,000•Remote

About The Position

FoundationCCC is seeking a Senior Workday Analyst, Finance, to support its mission of benefiting and strengthening the California Community Colleges. The position is part of the Business Systems team, which implements, optimizes, and matures the systems and digital tools used across the organization. It is fully remote within California, and the employee must reside in California. The role is accountable for Workday’s Finance function, with a strong emphasis on Payroll. It applies hands-on finance and Workday expertise to ensure platforms and related processes are configured and operating effectively. Transaction processing is handled by Accounting and Payroll teams, while planning models are handled by Financial Planning and Analysis. The Senior Workday Analyst serves as an escalation point for complex platform issues and partners with the Senior Workday Analyst, HRIS on cross-domain matters, including worktags, benefits, and costing allocations. The role is the accountable platform resource for Workday Payroll and the technical lead for Workday Financial Management, covering financial accounting, procurement, expenses, banking and settlement, budgets, grants, and reporting. It also administers Workday Adaptive Planning as a platform. The analyst leads Finance-domain configuration design and regression testing, supports data management and integrations, and mentors Finance colleagues and the Workday Analyst, Finance. The position requires practical finance knowledge, hands-on Workday expertise, advanced data and reporting skills, and the ability to build consensus across teams. FoundationCCC describes itself as combining the impact of a nonprofit, the culture of an entrepreneurial start-up, and the scale of a state agency. It encourages innovation, creativity, collaboration, and entrepreneurship. The organization is remote-first, with headquarters in Downtown Sacramento.

Requirements

Strong practical command of finance fundamentals, including payroll and payroll accounting, GAAP, month-end and year-end close, reconciliation, internal controls, and audit readiness.
Hands-on expertise in Workday Payroll, Workday Financial Management, and Workday Adaptive Planning.
Advanced data skills, including manipulating large data sets in Excel or SQL, building advanced and composite Workday reports and calculated fields, and executing EIB loads accurately.
Experience in a high-growth or organizational transformation environment, with judgment about how finance processes and systems need to scale together.
Ability to build consensus and work across Finance, IT, and Business Systems, align stakeholders with competing priorities, and earn trust without direct authority.
Must reside in California.

Responsibilities

Serve as the accountable platform resource for Workday Payroll.
Partner with the Senior Workday Analyst, HRIS on employee benefit configurations.
Lead resolution of complex payroll calculation, retroactive-pay, and posting issues.
Carry payroll readiness for year-end and tax filings.
Serve as technical lead for Workday Financial Management, including financial accounting, procurement, expenses, banking and settlement, budgets, grants, and reporting.
Administer Workday Adaptive Planning as a platform.
Lead Finance-domain design for configuration changes and regression testing.
Work with large financial data sets and select appropriate methods for data-movement integrations.
Serve as the escalation point for complex Finance, Payroll, and Adaptive tickets.
Mentor the Workday Analyst, Finance and Finance team members as a cross-functional subject matter expert.
Partner with the Senior Workday Analyst, HRIS on cross-domain items such as worktags, benefits, and costing allocations.