Finance Manager

About the Team

We are business finance professionals who love what we do and support the business both strategically and with operational excellence. Our team has a strong influence on how we can sustainably grow our company by providing the business valuable financial insights. We are committed to working hard, having fun and making an impact!

Workday is seeking a highly motivated, intensely curious, and execution-focused Finance Manager to be a key financial partner within our Product Finance organization. This is a role for someone who thrives in ambiguity, moves fast, and knows how to build clarity and structure where none yet exists — bringing a startup operator’s mindset into the scale and impact of Workday. You will be responsible for providing financial leadership, strategic support, and operational analysis to drive the growth and success of a Business Unit within our support model.

You will serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, translating complex financial data into a compelling narrative and influencing strategic outcomes.
You won't wait for a perfect playbook — you'll write it
. This is a unique opportunity to directly support a high-visibility, high-impact area of Workday's business, where you will be at the forefront of the company's growth story. You will be instrumental in enabling data-driven decisions by providing financial and operational analytics, forecasting, and recommendations — often on tight timelines and evolving problem statements.

• Financial Partnership and Strategy: Serve as the primary finance partner for business unit leaders, providing strategic financial input and leadership on issues affecting the organization, including evaluation of potential investments, new bets, and business development initiatives —
  even when the path forward isn't fully defined.
• Go-to-Market (GTM) Support: Partner with the sales, marketing, and GTM strategy teams to drive the commercial success of the business unit portfolio. Provide financial analysis on pricing and packaging strategies, and other revenue-driving initiatives, moving quickly from hypothesis to recommendation.
• Planning and Analysis: Lead and manage all financial planning and analysis processes for the business unit, including annual planning, long-range planning, budgeting, and rolling forecasts — while continuously questioning assumptions and stress-testing the model.
• Reporting and Insights: Own the preparation of monthly and quarterly financial reporting and analytics packages. Consolidate and report on business activities, translating complex financial data into clear, concise, and actionable insights for business leaders and executive leadership.
• Performance Management: Perform qualitative financial analysis of key performance indicators (KPIs), apply financial modeling to generate insights into business performance, and advise on the financial impact of operational decisions. Proactively surface issues, spot patterns others miss, and recommend actions to improve financial performance before being asked.
• Process Improvement: Drive continuous improvement, standardization, and simplification of financial processes and reporting. Build scrappy solutions when needed, then scale them — with accuracy and attention to detail in a fast-paced environment.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Actively participate in cross-functional initiatives to establish robust measurement and monitoring practices. Collaborate closely with IT, Data, and other finance teams to align system capabilities with business goals.

• 10+ years of related experience in Finance, Accounting, or a related business function, with a focus on FP&A (Financial Planning & Analysis).
• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.

• Demonstrated ability to excel in ambiguous, fast‑changing, or greenfield environments — startup, scale‑up, new business unit, or 0-to-1 initiative experience is highly valued.
• Extreme intellectual curiosity — you dig deeper than the ask, learn new domains quickly, and aren't afraid to challenge the status quo.
• A strong bias for action and a track…