Senior Workday ERP Analyst

Altasciences•Cypress, CA

About The Position

The Senior Workday ERP Analyst is a functional and technical partner to Altasciences’ Accounting and Finance teams. The role owns complex configuration, support, and continuous improvement across Workday Financials, Workday Adaptive Planning, Workday Payroll, and enterprise reporting. The analyst translates business requirements into scalable solutions, reliable financial data, effective controls, and clear reporting, applying strong accounting knowledge and deep Workday expertise. The analyst helps lead major enhancements and cross-functional initiatives, resolves complex production issues, guides testing and release readiness, and mentors other analysts. The role requires understanding how payroll, planning, reporting, security, integrations, and the Workday Financials data model affect the general ledger and downstream accounting processes. Responsibilities include supporting and administering Adaptive Planning; supporting payroll processes and their accounting impacts; leading reporting and analytics solutions; supporting Workday Financials and accounting operations; and helping lead projects, governance, testing, documentation, and change activities. The position requires collaboration with Finance, Accounting, FP&A, Payroll, HRIS, integration resources, vendors, and other stakeholders. English fluency is essential. English is required for study protocols, designs, and clinical research documents, and is the primary language used to correspond with Altasciences employees across Canada and the United States. Altasciences strives to provide a French working environment for employees in Quebec and states it has taken reasonable steps to avoid imposing the English requirement under its francization program.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related field, with 4 to 7 years of experience supporting Workday Financials, Adaptive Planning, Workday Payroll, and financial reporting.
Workday or Adaptive Planning certifications or Workday Pro accreditation in relevant areas, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Demonstrated Workday Financials experience and strong understanding of accounting fundamentals, including journal entries, general ledger activity, subledgers, accruals, reconciliations, financial statements, and period close.
Hands-on experience administering or configuring Workday Adaptive Planning, including models, dimensions, accounts, versions, scenarios, sheets, reports, dashboards, and OfficeConnect.
Experience supporting Workday Payroll processes and payroll accounting, with the ability to analyze complex results and explain their financial impact.
Advanced Workday reporting experience, including calculated fields and Advanced, Matrix, or Composite reports.
Experience configuring business processes, security, and integrations or data loads in a controlled production environment.
Proven ability to lead complex initiatives, facilitate requirements sessions, develop testing strategies, and deliver solutions with limited oversight.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, documentation, and stakeholder-management skills.
Fluency in English.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting US and Canadian payroll, multi-company operations, multiple currencies, or complex organizational structures.
Experience with Workday Payroll, Financial Accounting, Banking and Settlement, Projects, Project Billing, Revenue, Procurement, Expenses, or Fixed Assets.
Experience with Prism Analytics, Workday Worksheets, EIBs, web services, or finance and payroll integrations.
Experience in a regulated, life sciences, clinical research, contract research, or professional services environment.

Responsibilities

Serve as a senior functional administrator and subject matter expert for Workday Adaptive Planning.
Design, configure, and maintain planning models, workforce planning, sheets, cube sheets, dimensions, accounts, versions, scenarios, allocations, dashboards, reports, and OfficeConnect outputs.
Partner with FP&A and Accounting to translate budgeting, forecasting, revenue planning, workforce planning, and driver-based planning requirements into sustainable solutions.
Maintain planning model integrity, data mappings, assumptions, access controls, and integration processes between Workday Financials, payroll data, and Adaptive Planning.
Troubleshoot planning data loads, mapping issues, calculation logic, model performance, and reporting discrepancies; reconcile planning results to source systems and financial statements.
Establish modeling standards and documentation that support accuracy, scalability, auditability, and consistent use across Finance.
Provide senior-level functional support for Workday Payroll processes and their impact on Accounting and Finance, including payroll accounting, costing, accruals, settlements, and general ledger posting.
Partner with Payroll, Accounting, and HRIS to analyze requirements, resolve production issues, and deliver approved configuration changes.
Investigate payroll calculation, deduction, earning, tax, costing, and accounting discrepancies by tracing configuration and transactions through downstream financial results.
Support payroll integrations, inbound and outbound files, data validation, reconciliation controls, and issue resolution with integration resources and vendors.
Develop and execute test strategies for payroll changes, regulatory updates, releases, and year-end activities; document outcomes and obtain business signoff.
Maintain appropriate security, segregation of duties, data privacy, and change controls for sensitive payroll information.
Lead the design and delivery of complex Workday reports for Accounting, Finance, Payroll, and business stakeholders.
Build and maintain Advanced, Matrix, and Composite reports, calculated fields, dashboards, worksheets, and other reporting solutions.
Translate reporting requirements into accurate definitions, data sources, prompts, filters, calculations, and security configurations.
Validate report outputs against the general ledger, subledgers, payroll results, and planning data; identify root causes for variances and data-quality issues.
Improve reporting governance through standards, documentation, performance optimization, controlled distribution, and retirement of redundant reports.
Evaluate reporting technologies, including Workday-delivered functionality and Prism Analytics where applicable.
Apply Workday Financials and accounting knowledge to support financial close, reconciliations, audit requests, controls, and daily operations.
Configure and support complex business processes, condition rules, validations, notifications, security, and approval routing.
Support Financial Accounting, Banking and Settlement, Supplier Accounts, Customer Accounts, Procurement, Expenses, Projects, Project Billing, Customer Contracts, Revenue Recognition, Fixed Assets, and related integrations.
Assess the accounting and operational impact of proposed changes, including effects on worktags, ledgers, subledgers, reporting, integrations, and downstream planning models.
Diagnose complex production issues, recommend durable solutions, and coordinate resolution with internal teams and external partners.
Support data loads and maintenance activities using EIBs and other approved Workday tools.
Help lead major enhancements, new capability deployments, business process redesign, requirements workshops, testing strategy, and release readiness activities.
Develop requirements, solution designs, test plans, support documentation, training materials, and change communications.
Manage assigned work from discovery through stabilization, including scope, risks, dependencies, decisions, status, and stakeholder expectations.
Mentor analysts, share technical knowledge, lead workshops, and promote disciplined configuration and support practices.
Monitor Workday releases and recommend features that improve controls, efficiency, user experience, and scalability.