Financial Operations Specialist, Workday

$89.8-159.6k

Actual salary is dependent on location

AWS

GCP

Excel

Google Sheets

Azure

dbt

Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

Remote from US

More information about location

Enterprise AI platform for managing HR, finance & IT

Open for applications

Enterprise AI platform for managing HR, finance & IT

1001+ employees

B2BHRInternal toolsAnalyticsFinancial ServicesCloud Computing

Open for applications

$89.8-159.6k

Actual salary is dependent on location

AWS

GCP

Excel

Google Sheets

Azure

dbt

Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

Remote from US

More information about location

1001+ employees

B2BHRInternal toolsAnalyticsFinancial ServicesCloud Computing

Company mission

To leverage the power of AI to elevate humans and supercharge work, moving business forever forward.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

3+ years' experience defining, designing, and implementing solutions to achieve a desired business outcome by evaluating, diagnosing, and evolving existing business processes and software technologies, and by applying metrics for evaluating economic success in the public cloud
1+ year of experience analyzing or operating software systems in one of the public cloud service providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
Outstanding written, visual representation, and verbal communication skills
Six Sigma certification is highly desirable
Strong ability to establish relationships, influence without authority, and drive alignment across teams with varied strengths and leadership levels
Outstanding organizational, interpersonal, and negotiation skills; flexible and adaptable; able to work in ambiguous situations
Passion to serve our stakeholders and a commitment to delivering high-quality results
Proficient in data analysis and planning and modeling tools, dbt, Lightdash, Adaptive Planning, Google Sheets and Excel

What the job involves

At Workday, our FinOps organization is doing far more than just managing cloud spend—we are engineering the future of cloud economics
As we expand our impact across Workday’s multi-cloud ecosystem on AWS and GCP, our team is leveraging a cutting-edge stack that includes agentic AI tools and sophisticated machine learning models to automate planning, precision forecasting, and cost optimization at a massive enterprise scale
We are a highly motivated, elite group of experts dedicated to moving beyond traditional reporting and into the realm of predictive, autonomous cloud orchestration
If you are a visionary professional eager to apply advanced technology to complex financial challenges, we invite you to help us redefine what’s possible in the FinOps space
As a FinOps Specialist at Workday, you will be the connective tissue between our cutting-edge technical capabilities and our strategic financial objectives
You won't just document workflows; you will diagnose and re-engineer the DNA of our cloud-native operations across AWS and GCP to drive efficiency improvements at high speed
In this role, you will develop the sophisticated metrics that feed our ML-driven forecasting models and design the procedural frameworks that allow our agentic AI tools to operate at scale
We are looking for a high-potential professional ready to provide subject matter expertise to our enterprise-wide initiatives, transforming raw cloud data into the operational excellence that fuels Workday’s global impact

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.

The company has also grown through acquisitions and partnerships to broaden its capabilities. Most recently, in 2025 it purchases Sana, an AI-driven enterprise knowledge and learning platform, to create a "new front door for work". This acquisition allows Workday to integrate Sana's AI-powered search, agents, and learning capabilities with its own data and workflows, allowing employees to access information, automate tasks, and complete their day entirely within Workday.

Through a combination of strategic acquisitions and in-house development, Workday has built a comprehensive suite of HR, financial, and enterprise tools. By focusing on innovation and AI-driven workflows, the company continues to push productivity and decision-making for organizations worldwide. Building on this track record, Workday is very much positioned for even more growth, reinforcing its status as a leader in shaping the future of work.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

16% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.5)

Trustpilot (1.1)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Oct 2011

$85m

SERIES F

Apr 2009

$75m

SERIES E

Total funding: $215.3m

Company HQ

Pleasanton, CA

Leadership

Aneel Bhusri

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Annel began their career at Morgan Stanley as a Corporate Finance Analyst. They then spent nearly 6 years at PeopleSoft as a Senior VP before co-founding Workday in 2005.

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