[Remote] Senior Specialist, Workday Finance

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Kyriba is a global fintech leader empowering CFOs and finance teams with cloud-based treasury, payments, risk management and working capital solutions. They are seeking a Senior Specialist in Workday Finance to lead the functional deployment of Workday Financials, ensuring compliance, data integrity, and ongoing optimization post-implementation.

Responsibilities

• Serve as Kyriba’s primary functional voice across Workday Core Financials, Procurement, and Expenses; represent business requirements, validate partner designs, and steward global design decisions and localization patterns
• Partner with the implementation team on FDM/Chart of Accounts, fiscal calendars, multi-entity, and multi-currency; review and approve intercompany, consolidation, and tax design recommendations with Controllership
• Co-own data readiness and integrity; define acceptance criteria and reconciliation rules, lead mapping reviews, and sign off on conversion outcomes as part of legacy decommissioning
• Coordinate with Tax and local Finance to ensure proposed designs meet e‑invoicing mandates and statutory requirements
• Lead Kyriba-side workshops with Finance COEs for P2P, O2C, and R2R; synthesize requirements, prioritize trade‑offs, and provide decision records to guide the implementation partner’s scalable design
• Define test strategy and scenarios; oversee SIT/UAT execution and defect triage with the partner; manage cutover readiness criteria and hypercare success measures on behalf of Finance
• Own the Workday Financials roadmap aligned to CFO priorities; manage backlog, quarterly releases, and value realization
• Design and maintain complex configurations (cost centers, intercompany billing, allocations, revenue recognition/allocation as applicable); configure, test, validate, and deploy Business Process updates
• Evaluate and adopt Workday feature releases; run impact assessments, regression testing, and stakeholder communications
• Champion Workday’s innovation roadmap; evaluate AI/ML features for reconciliation, anomaly detection, and forecasting in line with Kyriba Finance objectives
• Enable reporting and dashboards using Workday Report Writer/Composite, Prism Analytics, and Adaptive Planning to provide real-time, multi-dimensional insight
• Own finance master data stewardship (values, validation rules, exception reporting); role-based security, and audit evidence processes with IT Security and Internal Audit
• Serve as escalation point for Finance Systems and Finance Ops; coach team members and drive continuous learning

Skills

• Significant Workday Financials experience as a functional lead/product owner or senior consultant, including at least one full-lifecycle implementation
• Deep functional knowledge of Core Financials (GL, AP, AR), Expenses, and Procurement; hands-on configuration and reporting experience
• Solid understanding of US GAAP/IFRS concepts, intercompany, consolidations, multi-entity/multi-currency, tax/VAT, and statutory reporting
• Comfortable balancing global standards with local requirements across multiple jurisdictions
• Skilled at framing options, trade-offs, and recommendations to senior Finance leaders and cross-functional stakeholders
• Strong prioritization, risk management, and execution discipline in fast-paced, ambiguous environments
• Workday certification(s) in Financials/Expenses/Procurement or Workday Pro highly preferred
• Familiarity with Workday EIB/Studio/Cloud Connect; experience with Adaptive Planning, NetSuite, and/or MuleSoft (or similar iPaaS) is a strong plus
• Exposure to Prism Analytics, role-based security/SoD design, and audit/SOX processes

Benefits

• Health, welfare and wellbeing benefits

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