Sr Workday Solutions Analyst - Financials

Who You’ll Work With:

Join our Finance Technology Team as our Senior Workday Financials Analyst, a newly established position at Alliance Bernstein within our Global Technology & Operations Business Unit. Collaborating alongside a passionate team of analysts and developers as well as finance business leaders and teams, you'll have the chance to make a significant impact as we begin our post-implementation journey with Workday Financials.

This role will report into the Head of Corporate Finance Technology, serve as Senior Workday Financials Analyst and expert within the team and support continuous development and upskill of peers and partners within the newly implemented products.

• Following the established implementation of Workday HCM and all associated products, we are live with our implementation of Workday Financials, Expenses, Procurement, Account Center, Prism, and Adaptive Planning which will enable this role with the unique opportunity to be on the frontend of our global Finance Transformation.
• Align with functional leads for Financials, Expenses, Procurement, and Prism/Accounting Center for execution of planned work.
• Validate prioritization and categorization of tickets, changes, and enhancements with the business/functional leads.
• Resolve high-priority incidents and act as tier 2 escalation.
• Maintain a deep understanding of Workday's data model, corporate system architecture, interfaces, reporting, and data loading procedures.
• Provide Workday and subject matter expertise to business process owners and colleagues.
• Stay updated on Workday functionality, training, and best practices Perform impact assessments for Workday upgrades and cross application enhancements
• Facilitate user acceptance and validation of functionality with the business.
• Assist with testing integration and security cases.
• Develop QA Strategy in partnership with other product leads and solutions analysts
• Work with Functional Leads and Process Owners to develop requirements for Workday changes.
• Manage the configurations of Workday applications.
• Coordinate feature/function cases with Workday
• Identify areas for process improvement and sponsor improvement activities.
• Create tier 2 escalated, advanced Workday reports as needed by business users.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, finance, accounting or a related field.
• +4 years of combined experience with Core Financials, Expenses, and Procurement as well as accounting principles and practices.
• Preferred Workday certifications or additional experience supporting other Workday Products such as Accounting Center, Prism, Adaptive Planning, Advanced Financial Reporting, or Payroll will distinguish you as a standout candidate.
• Preferred experience with a shared Workday HCM environment.
• Demonstrated ability to work with cross-functional teams, including business users and technology teams to gather, analyze, and document requirements.
• Ability to research, diagnose, and resolve configuration issues both as an individual contributor and in partnership with multiple stakeholder teams.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills to work with various stakeholders.

We are a leading global investment management firm offering high-quality research and diversified investment services to institutional clients, retail investors, and private-wealth clients in major markets around the globe. With over 4,000 employees across 57 locations operating in 26 countries and jurisdictions, our ambition is simple: to be the most trusted investment firm in the world. We realize that it's our people who give us a competitive advantage and drive success in the market, and our goal is to create an inclusive culture that rewards hard work.

Our culture of intellectual curiosity and collaboration creates an environment where you can thrive and do your best work. Whether you're producing thought-provoking research, identifying compelling investment opportunities, infusing new technologies into our business or providing thoughtful advice to our clients, we are fully invested in you.

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