Workday Finance Engineer

Job Description

Position

Purpose:

As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state, and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills, and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world. By being deeply invested in our work, showing compassion in our interactions, and embodying the spirit of a team player, each member contributes to a thriving community.

UW is committed to attracting and retaining a diverse staff; your experiences, perspectives, and unique identities will be honored at the University of Washington. Together, our community strives to create and maintain working and learning environments that are inclusive, equitable, and welcoming.

UW Information Technology (UWIT) is the central information technology organization for the University of Washington, responsible for strategic planning, oversight, and direction of the UW’s IT infrastructure, resources, and services. UWIT provides critical technology support to all three campuses, UW Medicine, and research operations around the world, partnering with the UW community to enable innovation, learning, discovery, and service.”

UWIT Workday Operations supports the University’s faculty, staff and student workers by configuring and supporting UW’s Workday platform. Within UWIT Workday Operations the Workday Finance Application Management team supports Workday Finance modules such as Procurement, Grants, Banking/Settlement, and Core Finance. The hallmarks of UWIT Workday Operations are delivering services that are timely, accurate and highly attuned to the fast-paced university environment.

The Software Engineer will support Tier 3 Application Management functions in Workday Finance, a cloud-based finance software system. More specific responsibilities will include coordinating with other Workday Finance Application Management team members to analyze/troubleshoot complex system issues, supporting the configuration and implementation changes to the Workday application, participating in testing/validation of functionality changes, documenting and communicating changes, and collaborating with reporting and integration teams.

In performing these duties, the incumbent will analyze business problems and processes to identify functional and non-functional solutions supporting the needs of the University.

As a contributor to the Application Support team, the Software Engineer will serve as a member of the Workday Core Finance team to ensure design, development, configuration, testing and launch of specific features are complete and functional, both independently and in coordination with all other dependent Workday features. Further, this position is responsible for ensuring all dependent integrations, reports and other business needs are consistently maintained and accounted for as continual changes are made to the Workday system.

This role will require insight into various business processes and technical considerations and encompass cognizance of relevant compliance/regulatory standards and associated audit/control reporting.

• Complete identification and implementation of complex Workday configuration changes.
• Troubleshoot advanced system issues.
• Complete advanced analysis of the Workday release schedule and coordinate with stakeholders to understand implications of release of new features, and associated update priorities.
• Maintain productive relationships with designated stakeholders to understand policies, procedures, and established standards.
• Evaluate processes, identify improvement opportunities, and implement required updates/enhancements.
• Adhere to protocols and standards for facilitating configurations and software…