Senior Analyst – Finance Functional Systems

🕒 August 28

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $62 - $83 / hour

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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Stanford Health Care

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1885

🏥 Healthcare

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

📚 Education

Healthcare • Healthcare Insurance • Education

Stanford Health Care is a major academic medical center affiliated with Stanford Medicine. It provides world-renowned patient care, emphasizes innovation and research, and offers a wide range of clinical services and career opportunities across nursing, advanced practice, allied health, laboratory, technology, administration, and other areas. The organization promotes values such as C-I-CARE (respect, courtesy, personal connection), sustainability, dedication, and community collaboration across physicians, researchers, professors, and students to advance health, healing, and knowledge globally.

📋 Description

• Serve as SME for core Workday finance domains. • Provide expert guidance on end-to-end processes, financial controls, and ERP capabilities. • Translate business needs into configuration specifications, functional designs, and testable requirements. • Maintain functional specs, configuration notes, test scripts, SOPs, and process flows. • Support change control, release readiness, and audit documentation. • Lead configuration of complex business processes, validations, posting rules, condition logic, and reporting structures. • Validate posting rules, business process flows, accounting results, and reporting logic before deployment. • Perform root-cause analysis and implement durable fixes. • Resolve high-complexity issues involving accounting data, integrations, or workflow behavior. • Support configuration, testing, and functional ownership of other Finance Controller’s Office systems. • Own functional delivery for enhancements, releases, and change requests. • Lead full testing cycles, including test planning, script creation, execution oversight, and defect resolution. • Identify process inefficiencies across finance, payroll, grants, gifts, business assets, and project management workflows. • Recommend and implement automation, redesign, or configuration improvements. • Partner with IT on integration, security, and technical escalations. • Partner with Accounting, AP, Payroll, Procurement, HR, Finance, Grants, Fixed Assets, Projects, Treasury, and IT teams. • Present options, impact analysis, and recommendations to stakeholders. • Liaise between business teams and technical partners. • Support release readiness through testing, documentation, and communication. • Validate configuration and testing outcomes prior to deployment. • Perform other duties as assigned.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, or related field. • Minimum of Five (5) years of hands on Workday Financials configuration experience. • Demonstrated experience configuring Workday business processes, accounting center, allocation and financial frameworks, security groups. • Demonstrated experience developing Workday advanced and composite Workday reports, calculated fields, and analytics datasets. • Experience leading Workday enhancements, requirement gathering, functional design, and UAT cycles. • Experience supporting general ledger, procure to pay, order to cash, record to report, period close, grants, gifts, business assets and project management. • Experience with Workday release management, regression testing, and impact analysis. • Experience collaborating with Accounting, Procurement, Payroll, and IT on cross functional initiatives. • Experience supporting or implementing multiple finance systems in addition to Workday, including participation in system upgrades or new deployments. • Deep knowledge of Workday Financials. • Ability to design and configure complex Workday solutions with minimal guidance. • Ability to build Workday advanced reports and analytics datasets. • Ability to diagnose complex functional issues and lead root cause analysis. • Ability to lead cross functional discussions and influence stakeholders. • Strong documentation skills (functional designs, test scripts, configuration notes). • Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder influencing skills. • Ability to manage multiple projects, deadlines, and release cycles. • Ability to operate in a multi-system environment and understand how additional tools integrate with Workday and Finance processes. • Familiarity of AI-driven tools that enhance financial processes and data accuracy.