Principal Business Systems Analyst

Description:
Remote
Our client seeks a Principal Business Systems Analyst to lead advanced Workday Financials solutioning, configuration, and support. The role will drive complex business process design, reporting and analytics, and production support across Financial Accounting, Banking and Treasury, Procurement, Supplier and Customer Accounts, Expenses, and Business Assets.
Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.
Rate: $55.00 to $60.00/hr. w2
Responsibilities:

• Provide advanced Workday Financials expertise and business acumen to solve highly complex issues and anticipate downstream impacts.
• Serve as functional and technical expert across Financial Accounting, Business Assets, Customer Accounts, Supplier Accounts, Banking and Treasury, Procurement, Expenses, Security, and Reporting and Analytics.
• Act as a super user and trusted advisor on system capabilities, process optimization, controls, and best practices.
• Lead analysis, design, configuration, and implementation of solutions that may impact multiple business areas and applications.
• Design and maintain complex Workday Business Processes, approval workflows, condition rules, security configurations, custom validations, and calculated fields.
• Develop and maintain advanced reports and dashboards to support decision-making.
• Quantify business impacts and recommend solutions to stakeholders.
• Coordinate user support for complex inquiries, service requests, and production issues.
• Drive data and trend analysis and process improvement in partnership with business and IT.
• Mentor and coach junior team members on Workday capabilities and consulting skills.
• Lead triage for system failures, drive troubleshooting and root cause analysis, and coordinate near-term and long-term fixes with IT, Workday, and vendors.
• Develop support processes and manage daily resolution of production issues, configuration defects, data issues, and user errors.
• Use EIBs and data management tools for data loads, mass updates, corrections, testing, and automation.
• Document, track, and report system support activities and resolutions.
• Lead requirements elicitation, analysis, and documentation aligned to enterprise objectives.
• Serve as Business Lead for complex projects, overseeing intake, prioritization, specifications, configuration, testing, deployment, and hypercare.
• Partner with teams to implement new Workday functionality, enhancements, and process improvements.
• Lead testing strategy, test plans, scenarios, execution, and readiness assessments. Train others on testing best practices.
• Coordinate with partners on impacts from Workday releases, updates, security changes, integrations, and architecture enhancements.
• Configure and maintain Workday Financials across environments, including Business Processes, Custom Validations, Calculated Fields, Security roles and policies (awareness), Financial reports and dashboards, and EIB integrations and data loads.
• Govern configuration accuracy and compliance with change control.

Experience Requirements:

• 10+ years of relevant experience preferred with strong Workday Financials functional expertise.
• Hands-on support for Financial Accounting, Banking, Procurement, Suppliers, Customers, Expenses, and Business Assets.
• Advanced Business Process and Custom Validation configuration and Calculated Field development.
• Strong troubleshooting, production support, and root cause analysis with ability to work independently.
• Leadership of requirements gathering, testing, and implementation.
• Pluses: EIB expertise, Workday Reporting and Dashboards, Adaptive Planning, Prism Analytics, integrations, Studio and Core Connector, Security Administration, and financial planning/budgeting/forecasting.
• Healthcare, health plan, or insurance industry experience preferred.
• Prior experience leading enterprise Workday Financials initiatives and relevant Workday certifications are beneficial.

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or advanced degree preferred. In lieu of degree, 10+ years of related experience.
• 8+ years in Business Systems Analysis, ERP, Financial Systems, or related fields, including 5+ years of hands-on Workday Financials across multiple functional areas.

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Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations reach further and achieve more through our technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. For nearly 40 years, we have combined exceptional people, deep domain expertise, and intelligent capabilities to expand our clients' capacity and accelerate meaningful outcomes. We are driven by a purpose to positively impact the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities we serve.
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