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Position Title – WR75869R082016
Sr. Functional Analyst – Workday Financials - SQL - Asset Management – Boston, MA Area – Excellent Package
Outstanding Compensation Package – Base + Bonus + PS
Relo. Possible for exceptional candidates
Company
Large, successful, and growing Boston based Investment Management Firm – Great Company – Lots of Upside – Outstanding Compensation Package – Bonus – Profit Sharing etc. Join a team oriented, collaborative, results focused environment and become part of an elite organization with great growth possibilities.
Position Summary:
This position will be responsible for delivering system solutions and supporting Workday Financials across all business teams in Finance. This individual will start out as a member of the implementation team leading the testing of multiple project work streams, including Financial Accounting, Supplier Accounts, Expenses, Procurement, and Projects as well as participate and assist on the Reporting and Security teams. The position will include a combination of business/systems analysis and application support responsibilities once live in production. Qualified applicants must possess functional knowledge of finance and accounting processes (record to report and procure to pay) as well as strong systems analysis and support background, having demonstrated ability to learn and apply new technologies to solve business challenges.
This position will be a “hands-on” role expected to support and maintain core configurations used across the application, while assisting in and leading the testing for the semi-annual Workday upgrades. This individual will also be expected to perform system analysis and documentation as it relates to new evolving requirements and enhancement requests. This role will be a liaison to IT Corporate Firm wide Technology/ Development team and/or partner vendors for resolution of complex issues, enhancements, and other technical support as required.
Responsibilities:
Daily activities and responsibilities for this role include, but are not limited to:
· Perform system administration tasks, including core setup data and cross functional configurations (i.e. spend categories)
· Perform system security administration tasks, including configuration/maintenance at both the domain and business process levels, ensuring the alignment to appropriate security groups. This role will also create new user accounts, apply security roles as appropriate and perform/support quarterly audits.
· Provide end-user support; troubleshoot defects, bugs, and other system issues via research, testing, scenario re-creation. Recommending process or system workarounds where possible
· Responsible for developing reports and providing report administration for custom reports used by Finance.
· Monitor various system integrations for errors, and provide basic integration issue troubleshooting
· Define, analyze and document functional specifications for new evolving business requirements
· Track and manage all process change requests and system enhancements working with Finance business owners to set priorities
· Assists in or leads the testing for Workday semi-annual upgrades, including the development of test plans and other supporting documentation (i.e. scripts). Review release notes, assess new features and impacts to business processes and basic changes in functionality
· Develop/maintain system related documentation, including development of training materials
Required Skills and Competencies:
· 8+ years’ experience in a systems role supporting Finance department, possessing a strong knowledge base of Finance and Accounting processes for record to report and procure to pay.
· Experience working with externally hosted and managed solutions is required
· 1-3 years of experience with Workday Financials is preferred
· Strong analytical and problem solving skills with an attention to detail
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills
· Highly self-motivated and able to work in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment, taking initiative and/or lead role as necessary
· The ability to manage multiple priorities is required as is professional maturity with regard to handling of confidential information
· Bachelor’s degree required, a major in Computer Science, Finance/Accounting or related field is preferred
· Hands-on knowledge of SQL and relational database technology required.
Keys to this Position:
1) We are seeking a Sr. Functional/Technical Systems Analyst, ideally with Workday Financials. The role is 70% functional and 30% technical. We will also look at candidates that have other Financial Package Software Experience (i.e. PeopleSoft, SAP or Oracle). The firm is migrating from PeopleSoft to Workday. Go Live date is July 2017. This individual will be part of the Implementation team.
2) The candidate must have functional knowledge of all the major areas within Finance, i.e. AP, GL, Purchasing, etc. The technical piece will involve doing configuration work and report development. However this person will work with the technical person on the team that will handle the more complex technical aspects.
3) This individual will work directly with the business so must have excellent communication skills
4) Workday modules that will be implemented include Financial Accounting (GL), Business Assets (Asset Management), Supplier Accounts (AP), Expenses, Procurement and Projects.
5) This individual will be a senior resource with 10 plus years of experience.
Contact Information – Resumes in Word format to:
Gary Wright - President – Wright Associates
Phone - (508) 761-6354 - Email - GaryWright@WrightAssociates.org - WEB Site – www.wrightassociates.org
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