Workday Financials Reporting Lead

Guidehouse•Tysons Corner, VA

About The Position

The Workday Financials Reporting Lead develops and configures reporting solutions that support Guidehouse Financial Operations. The role partners with Finance, Accounting, IT, Data, Security, Integrations, implementation teams, and enterprise data, analytics, and EPM teams to define and deliver reporting requirements. It maintains and rationalizes the reporting inventory, evaluates Workday-delivered capabilities before proposing custom solutions, and designs, develops, tests, deploys, and maintains Workday Financials reports, financial statements, calculated fields, dashboards, analytics, and scheduled or distributed reports. The lead establishes reporting standards and governance, coordinates security and access, and leads testing and reconciliation to verify report accuracy and consistency with financial statements, source systems, and downstream platforms. Responsibilities also include supporting cutover, go-live, hypercare, documentation, training, and knowledge transfer; owning post-go-live enhancement intake and production support; assessing Workday releases and coordinating regression testing; monitoring report performance and data quality; and supporting audit, SOX, change-control, and reporting-governance requirements. The role provides expertise for adjacent capabilities such as Prism Analytics, Worksheets, Discovery Boards, Accounting Center, integrations, and downstream EPM reporting.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, Business Administration, Data Analytics, Computer Science, or a related field, or 4+ years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
6+ years of experience with enterprise financial reporting, including hands-on Workday Financial Management reporting.
Demonstrated experience designing and developing complex Workday reports, calculated fields, financial statements, dashboards, and analytics.
Strong understanding of Workday business objects, data sources, report types, report security, worktags, companies, hierarchies, and financial dimensions.
Working knowledge of accounting and financial processes, with the ability to analyze and reconcile financial data.
Experience leading reporting requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, documentation, and production support.
Experience establishing or operating reporting governance, intake, prioritization, change-control, and lifecycle-management processes.
Ability to troubleshoot reporting and data issues and coordinate resolution across functional, technical, security, integration, and data teams.
Strong stakeholder-management skills and ability to lead a reporting workstream while remaining hands-on with report development and problem solving.
Strong analytical, communication, documentation, training, and organizational skills.

Nice To Haves

Workday certification or Workday Pro credentials in Reporting, Financial Management, Financial Accounting, Prism Analytics, Accounting Center, Security, or related areas.
Experience supporting a full-cycle Workday Financials implementation and transitioning into post-production ownership.
Experience with Prism Analytics, Worksheets, Discovery Boards, Accounting Center, Reporting-as-a-Service, Workday Report Designer/BIRT, or Office Connect.
Experience integrating Workday reporting with enterprise data platforms, BI tools, or EPM solutions such as OneStream.
Experience supporting Workday Financials in a complex professional-services or project-based organization.
Experience working in a SOX-controlled or audit-sensitive environment.

Responsibilities

Partner with the Workday Financials Reporting Lead and project subject matter expert to develop and configure reports for Guidehouse Financial Operations.
Work with Finance, Accounting, IT, Data, Security, Integrations, and implementation teams to define, prioritize, and deliver reporting requirements.
Maintain and rationalize the reporting inventory, identifying reports to retain, replace, consolidate, defer, or retire.
Evaluate Workday-delivered reporting capabilities before developing custom solutions.
Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain Workday Financials reports, financial statements, calculated fields, dashboards, analytics, and scheduled or distributed reports.
Use Workday business objects, data sources, worktags, hierarchies, ledgers, and financial dimensions to create accurate, supportable reporting solutions.
Establish report design, naming, documentation, testing, security, deployment, and lifecycle-management standards in conjunction with the Workday HCM team.
Lead report testing and reconciliation to confirm accuracy, completeness, and consistency with financial statements, source systems, and downstream reporting platforms.
Coordinate report security and access with Workday Security, Finance, and data owners.
Support reporting cutover, go-live, hypercare, documentation, training, and knowledge transfer.
Own intake, prioritization, development, and delivery of reporting enhancements and production-support requests after go-live.
Assess Workday releases for reporting impacts and coordinate regression testing of critical reports.
Monitor report performance, usage, data quality, and supportability, and identify opportunities to simplify, consolidate, or retire reporting assets.
Support audit, SOX, change-control, and reporting-governance requirements.
Partner with enterprise data, analytics, and EPM teams to determine when requirements should be fulfilled outside Workday.
Provide expertise and leadership for adjacent capabilities including Prism Analytics, Worksheets, Discovery Boards and dashboards, Accounting Center reporting, integrations, and downstream EPM reporting.