Senior Workday ERP Analyst

Altasciences•Cypress, CA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Workday ERP Analyst is a functional and technical partner to the Altasciences Accounting and Finance teams. This role owns complex configuration, support, and continuous improvement across Workday Financials, Workday Adaptive Planning, Workday Payroll, and enterprise reporting. The analyst combines strong accounting knowledge with deep Workday expertise to translate business requirements into scalable solutions, reliable financial data, effective controls, and clear reporting. The successful candidate will help lead major enhancements and cross-functional initiatives, resolve complex production issues, guide testing and release readiness, and mentor other analysts. The role requires a clear understanding of how payroll, planning, reporting, security, integrations, and the Workday Financials data model affect the general ledger and downstream accounting processes.

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, financial reporting.
Workday or Adaptive Planning certifications or Workday Pro accreditation in relevant areas or an equivalent combination of education and experience required.
Demonstrated Workday Financials experience and a 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.

Nice To Haves

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

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 model integrity, data mappings, assumptions, access controls, and integration processes between Workday Financials, payroll data, and Adaptive Planning.
Troubleshoot 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 in coordination 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 appropriate reporting technologies, including Workday-delivered functionality and Prism Analytics where applicable.
Apply strong knowledge of Workday Financials and accounting principles 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 capabilities across 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 before configuration, 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 clear 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.