Workday Financial Systems Analyst at See's Candies

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'Quality without Compromise' is not just a motto at See's Candies. It is the most important ingredient in our recipe for success. See's Candies has been in business since 1921 and maintains a reputation for producing the highest quality candy and providing superior customer service.
See's is a leader in the confectionary industry with over 250 retail shops across the USA. We are seeking friendly, enthusiastic individuals who are passionate about providing great customer service.

Job Description Summary:

The Workday Financial systems analyst will be accountable for the assessment, implementation, business partnership, and ongoing production support for Workday’s finance modules. The lead will be responsible for understanding Sees business needs and recommending Workday best practices.

The pay range for this position is expected to be $125k-$140k annually; however, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Job Description:

Role Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day system and operations issues, system troubleshooting, manage severity assignments and set priorities for resolution

• Monitor the system for problems and identify and implement corrective and preventive measures

• Understand the overall finance/accounting setup of Workday, including overall functional usage of Workday

• Perform Workday administrative functions including business process and tenant configuration. Monitor and troubleshoot integrations and BPs supporting finance processes, determine root cause, and implement solutions

• Understand Workday security including adjusting domains and security groups. Maintain the roles (for all business functional areas) related to security groups; this includes working with functional areas to assign and change roles depending on job function

• Lead the Workday release preparation, including monitoring Workday Community for new release functionality. Coordinating with impacted business units to make required configuration/ content / reporting / integration changes. Analyze and manage Workday releases, assess impacts including architecting, configuring, prototyping, testing, and deploying updates

Project Responsibilities

• Leverage business knowledge and expertise to identify and recommend opportunities for process improvements, advise stakeholders on options, risks, and any impacts on other processes or systems.

• Coordinate with finance and accounting team to understand and document business requirements and use cases, design, and configure Workday. Maintain design workbooks.

• Ensure that recommendations from implementation partner fit Sees standards of minimum customization, maximum scalability.

• Evaluate, communicate, and coordinate the technical impacts of Workday configuration decisions

• Build regression and acceptance test scenarios working closely with business process owners

• Responsible for owning and updating the cutover activities for project go live

• Design, configure, and test simple integrations between Workday and external systems using Enterprise Integration Builder (EIB) and other Workday tools. Support data conversion efforts for acquisitions as needed.

• Report Writer & Owner: Create, maintain, and process standard and custom ad-hoc reports and dashboards, to meet business needs

Qualifications

• 3+ years of Workday Finance administration and/or configuration experience required.

• Advanced experience in Workday configuration in three or more of the following areas: Financial Accounting, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Banking, Procurement, Projects

• Knowledge about Workday business objects modules and process flows.

• Experience with finance business processes and security and how to best leverage Workday to automate processes.

• Project experience with gathering requirements, architecting system configuration, leading testing, and implementation.

• Ability to work through complex issues and challenges and present business stakeholders with clear options for solutioning.

The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, in addition to a full range of generous medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment. If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

See's is an EOE
See’s will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable local, state or federal law (including San Francisco Ordinance #131192 and Los Angeles Municipal Code 189.00).