Senior Financial Analyst, Workday
$129.6-194.4k
Office located in CA, Pleasanton
Enterprise management cloud platform
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Enterprise management cloud platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$129.6-194.4k
Office located in CA, Pleasanton
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide an all-in-one management cloud solution for the rapidly changing business requirements of the modern world.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
- 5+ years of related experience across FP&A, Strategic Finance, Strategy, or Operations
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with a strong sense-of-urgency and attention-to-detail
- Growth mindset, particularly with openness to change and continuous learning especially in this age of AI and how AI can improve our effectiveness in Finance
- Strong Financial Analysis skills, including experience in budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis
- Driven self-starter with the ability to take initiative and demonstrate Proactive Thinking to identify potential risks/opportunities and uplevel them to management when needed
- Solid Decision-Making skills, with the ability to analyze complex financial data and provide recommendations
- Experience in Business Analysis, including gathering and documenting business requirements
- Proven track record in Financial Reporting and Analysis, with experience in preparing financial presentations
- Experience with Process Improvements related to financial processes
- Strong technical, analytical, communication, and influencing skills
- Positive attitude with an eagerness to learn and improve
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills demonstrating the ability to synthesize complex topics and large datasets into clear and concise actionable insights for the business
- Knowledge of Workday Financials or Adaptive Planning a plus
What the job involves
- This role is focused on business partnering, financial performance analysis, and reporting
- You will enable data-driven decisions by providing financial and operational analytics, benchmarks, insights and recommendations
- We’re looking for someone meticulous about drilling down and understanding data, a self-starter, a great communicator, and someone who enjoys collaborating with a diverse and hardworking team
- Budgeting and forecasting - Drive monthly headcount and financial forecast cycles in Workday Adaptive, ensuring accurate projections, appropriate level of reporting, analysis and communication to CX Finance leadership and the business
- Business partnering - Partner with the SVP of Workday Success Plans (WSP) and their team. WSP is a subscription-based service from Workday that offers guidance, education, and expertise to help customers maximize their investment in the Workday platform and achieve their business goals. Workday Success Plans provide access to resources like platform experts, proactive problem-solving, learning tools, and more
- Collaborate with stakeholders and manage the Subscription Services P&L and forecast functional headcount for capacity planning purposes
- Business performance reporting - Prepare monthly/quarterly financial review presentations (including collecting, formatting, and analyzing information) and assist in communicating the materials to senior leadership teams
- Support the business to model future growth drivers and impact of WSP service on platform retention and Artificial Intelligence (AI) agent adoption
- Long range planning (LRP) - Manage the company's long-range financial model for the WSP business with a focus on ROI
- Drive profitable growth for Workday by seeking out new insights for revenue generation and implement cost optimization initiatives by monitoring expenses and resource allocations
- Ad-hoc, financial, and operational analysis - Combine quantitative and qualitative analysis to highlight business risks and opportunities
- Business processes - Become acquainted with business processes and highlight opportunities for automation and process improvement
- Financial close - Prepare journal entries related to financial close activities (end-of period accruals, reclass entries)
Our take
Workday is a cloud-based software vendor that provides management of workforces and finances. The company uses a single database for workforce management and financial management to offer integration and optimize business intelligence across companies. It has added to the packages and tools it offers over the years, providing analytic options that allow companies to combine third-party data with information collected by Workday.
Workday has acquired and paired up with many other companies to keep expanding its offering. In 2021, it purchased the employee feedback platform Peakon in response to the growing need for managers to be able to survey workers and collect satisfaction data without face-to-face meetings. The company has also bought and developed many financial tools and HR management tools.
The company’s goal is to provide end-to-end back office services and while there are other providers, such as UKG Pro and Ceridian HCM, Workday’s broad offering helps them to stand out. Though it faced a tough global market in 2023 and has shed some of its headcount, Workday has seen a 6.5% gain in value in the first quarter of 2024. It is now focusing on growth and developing the AI capabilities of its platform. .
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Oct 2011
$85m
SERIES F
Apr 2009
$75m
SERIES E
Total funding: $215.3m
Company benefits
- Company equity
- Vision and dental insurance
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
- Virtual primary care
- Flexible time-off policy
- Global mental health resources
- Global dedicated on-site clinical counselors
- Global well-being days
- $25k fertility/family planning benefits
- North Star financial wellness
- Retirement funds and matching
- 401k plan
- On-site health clinic (Pleasanton office)
Company HQ
Pleasanton, CA
Leadership
Aneel Bhusri
(CEO)Worked for Morgan Stanley for 3 years and took a Stanford MBA, before spending almost 6 years at Oracle as SVP. Co-founded Workday in 2005 while working as a Greylock Advisory Partner.
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