Workday Finance Consultant

• Support final deployment activities, move to production, stabilization, and transition to ongoing operations for a Workday go live.
• Serve as a senior Finance resource in the Workday program, working with other stakeholders in PMO, Supply Chain, Digital & Information Services, and operations.
• Provide hands-on support for cutover execution, financial validation, issue resolution, business readiness, and post-production stabilization.
• Provide senior functional expertise across Workday Financial Management, with particular emphasis on: accounts payable and supplier accounts, supplier invoice processing, settlement and payment processing, banking and cash management, general ledger accounting, financial accounting and reporting, procurement-to-pay processes, accounting journals and operational accounting, business assets, expenses, and other related finance functions.
• Support the execution of the Workday Finance cutover plan.
• Coordinate finance cutover activities across accounts payable, accounting, treasury, integrations, data conversion, and reporting.
• Assist with legacy-system shutdown activities, transaction freezes, final processing deadlines, data extracts, conversions, and opening balance activities.
• Support the conversion and validation of suppliers, open invoices, purchase orders, accounting balances, banking information, payment data, and other finance-related records.
• Execute or coordinate cutover reconciliations between legacy applications, conversion files, Workday, and financial control totals.
• Identify cutover risks, unresolved dependencies, and readiness gaps, and escalate them with clear recommendations.
• Provide hands-on functional support during Workday production deployment and go-live.
• Monitor critical finance business processes.
• Validate that priority transactions can be completed successfully, including supplier invoices, approvals, accounting entries, settlements, payments, and financial reporting.
• Assist users with transaction questions, process navigation, and unexpected system behavior.
• Work closely with functional, technical, integration, reporting, security, and data teams to isolate defects and determine root causes.
• Provide daily support during the defined post-go-live hypercare period.
• Facilitate or participate in finance issue-triage sessions, command center meetings, and stabilization reviews.
• Track defects, incidents, questions, workarounds, decisions, and action items through resolution.
• Analyze recurring issues to identify root causes and recommend sustainable corrective actions.
• Build effective working relationships with Finance leaders, process owners, operational teams, Workday resources, and third-party partners.
• Communicate status, risks, decisions, dependencies, and expectations clearly to both project and operational audiences.

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience supporting Finance, Accounting, Accounts Payable, or financial systems.
• 2+ years of hands‑on Workday Financial Management experience.
• Participation in at least one full Workday Financial Management implementation or production deployment, including cutover, go‑live, or hypercare required.
• Demonstrated functional experience with Workday Finance business processes and accounting impacts.
• Strong understanding of Accounts Payable, Supplier invoicing, Payment processing, Reconciliations, Accounting controls, Procurement-to-pay processes.
• Experience executing cutover plans, validating converted data, reconciling financial information, and resolving production issues>
• Experience working with complex, integrated ERP environments and automated financial processes.
• Working knowledge of GAAP, internal controls, and financial reconciliation practices.
• Ability to analyze issues across system configuration, data, integrations, reporting, business processes, and user adoption.
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft 365, particularly Excel and Teams.
• Strong organization, prioritization, project management, and documentation skills.

Position:
Workday Finance Consultant

Term: 6+ month contract with possible extension

Schedule:

Remote, Monday-Friday 8am-5pm CST