Senior Manager of Corporate FP&A, Workday
$173.7-260.5k
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Office located in Pleasanton, CA
Enterprise AI platform for managing HR, finance & IT
Open for applications
Enterprise AI platform for managing HR, finance & IT
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$173.7-260.5k
More information about location
Office located in Pleasanton, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To leverage the power of AI to elevate humans and supercharge work, moving business forever forward.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field
- 10+ years of progressive experience in corporate FP&A or corporate finance, including hands-on P&L consolidation and cash flow analysis
- Prior experience managing people, ideally across distributed/global teams
- Experience supporting board-level reporting cycles and guidance process for a public company
- Demonstrated ability to work bottoms-up from ambiguous problem statements to structured, data-driven solutions
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with proven ability to present to senior executive audiences
- Proficiency with Google Suite (Sheets, Slides, Docs) and Workday Adaptive Planning
- Hands-on experience with AI tools such as Claude and Cursor, with a genuine willingness and agility to learn, adopt, and integrate new tools as they emerge
- High degree of comfort with fast-paced, high-ambiguity environments
- Strong systems and data proficiency, with the ability to clean, interpret, and operationalize data from multiple sources
- Track record of leading process automation or efficiency initiatives within FP&A, particularly using AI-driven tools
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Manager, Corporate FP&A to serve as a key financial leader supporting executive and board-level decision-making
- This role owns critical corporate consolidation and reporting processes, including P&L consolidation, operating cash flow, and stock-based compensation, while also managing a distributed team
- The ideal candidate moves fluidly between granular financial detail and executive-level synthesis, partners effectively across cross functional organizations, and brings a strong bias toward automation, AI-enablement, and continuous process improvement
- Financial Consolidation & Analysis
- Own P&L consolidation, operating cash flow analysis, and stock-based compensation reporting
- Maintain a deep understanding of all three financial statements (income statement, balance sheet, cash flow) and how key metrics and drivers move and interact across them
- Drive accurate forecasts for OCF by collaborating with AP, AR and accounting functions
- Own SBC forecast at a detailed level and enable live updates to forecasts
- Ensure data integrity while translating detailed financial data into clear, decision-ready insights
- Executive & Board-Level Reporting
- Orchestrate the quarter-end close process in close partnership with accounting
- Drive the corporate forecast and guidance process with continuous process improvement and acceleration
- Build and refine content for the Board of Directors deck
- Act as the connective “glue” integrating top-line (revenue) metrics with spend metrics to deliver a holistic view to finance leadership
- Present findings in an executive-consumable format that drives actionable insights
- Systems, Process & Continuous Improvement
- Leverage strong systems knowledge to extract, clean, and interpret financial data efficiently
- Continuously evaluate and implement FP&A best practices
- Bring a high affinity for AI tools; proactively identify opportunities to scale and automate manual reporting and analysis processes
- Operate with speed and agility, moving quickly from problem statement to bottoms-up, data-driven solution, even in ambiguous situations
- Team Leadership & Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Directly manage and develop team members based in Pleasanton, CA and Costa Rica
- Partner effectively with cross functional teams, effectively influence to achieve business outcomes
- Communicate with crystal clarity across all levels, including senior executive audiences
- Bring strong problem-solving skills and comfort operating amid ambiguity
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
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 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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