Senior Workday ERP Analyst
About the role
The Senior Workday ERP Analyst is a functional and technical partner to the Altasciences Accounting and Finance teams. This role owns complex configuration, support, and continuous improvement across Workday Financials, Workday Adaptive Planning, Workday Payroll, and enterprise reporting. The analyst combines strong accounting knowledge with deep Workday expertise to translate business requirements into scalable solutions, reliable financial data, effective controls, and clear reporting. The successful candidate will help lead major enhancements and cross-functional initiatives, resolve complex production issues, guide testing and release readiness, and mentor other analysts. The role requires a clear understanding of how payroll, planning, reporting, security, integrations, and the Workday Financials data model affect the general ledger and downstream accounting processes.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a senior functional administrator and subject matter expert for Workday Adaptive Planning.
- Design, configure, and maintain planning models, workforce planning, sheets, cube sheets, dimensions, accounts, versions, scenarios, allocations, dashboards, reports, and OfficeConnect outputs.
- Partner with FP&A and Accounting to translate budgeting, forecasting, revenue planning, workforce planning, and driver-based planning requirements into sustainable solutions.
- Maintain model integrity, data mappings, assumptions, access controls, and integration processes between Workday Financials, payroll data, and Adaptive Planning.
- Troubleshoot data loads, mapping issues, calculation logic, model performance, and reporting discrepancies; reconcile planning results to source systems and financial statements.
- Establish modeling standards and documentation that support accuracy, scalability, auditability, and consistent use across Finance.
- Provide senior-level functional support for Workday Payroll processes and their impact on Accounting and Finance, including