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

• Workday Adaptive Planning Support – 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.
• Workday Payroll Support – Provide senior-level functional support for Workday Payroll processes and their impact on Accounting and Finance, including payroll accounting, costing, accruals, settlements, and general ledger posting. Partner with Payroll, Accounting and HRIS to analyze requirements, resolve production issues, and deliver approved configuration changes. Investigate payroll calculation, deduction, earning, tax, costing, and accounting discrepancies by tracing configuration and transactions through downstream financial results. Support payroll integrations, inbound and outbound files, data validation, reconciliation controls, and issue resolution in coordination with integration resources and vendors. Develop and execute test strategies for payroll changes, regulatory updates, releases, and year-end activities; document outcomes and obtain business signoff. Maintain appropriate security, segregation of duties, data privacy, and change controls for sensitive payroll information.
• Workday Reporting and Analytics – Lead the design and delivery of complex Workday reports for Accounting, Finance, Payroll, and business stakeholders. Build and maintain Advanced, Matrix, and Composite reports, calculated fields, dashboards, worksheets, and other reporting solutions. Translate reporting requirements into accurate