Senior Workday Integrations Manager, Finance
About the role
Join Aprio's Finance team and you will help clients maximize their opportunities. Aprio Advisory Group, LLC is a progressive, fast-growing firm looking for a Senior Workday Integrations Manager to join their dynamic team. The Workday Integrations, Automation & Technical Lead owns the design, build, and ongoing health of Workday integrations and automations across Finance and HR. This role pairs hands-on technical work — integrations, custom reports, business processes, and security — with cross-functional coordination, partnering closely with Finance, HR, and Risk to deliver compliant, efficient, and well-documented solutions. The Lead also champions emerging automation and AI tools (such as Claude) by enabling and training internal staff, and provides technical support for the CloudPay–Workday implementation effort.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, maintain, and troubleshoot Workday integrations (EIB, Core Connectors, Studio, and web services), ensuring reliable and secure data exchange across systems.
- Develop and maintain custom Workday reports — including advanced, matrix, and composite reports — to meet evolving Finance and HR reporting needs.
- Administer Workday security by assigning, auditing, and regularly reviewing role-based permissions to safeguard data integrity and enforce least-privilege access.
- Configure, optimize, and maintain Workday business processes and condition rules to support efficient, compliant workflows.
- Monitor and triage help desk tickets related to Workday configuration, resolving issues promptly and identifying recurring trends for proactive remediation.
- Partner with Finance and HR to scope, prioritize, and deliver automation and AI solutions that streamline manual processes.
- Serve as a cross-functional liaison between Finance and HR, coordinating Workday configuration efforts and aligning processes across both functions.
- Develop and deliver training and enablement on automation and AI tools (such as Claude), building internal capability and driving staff adoption.
- Provide technical and functional support for current and upcoming CloudPay–Workday implementations, from planning through go-live and stabilization.
- Maintain a comprehensive ClickUp project portfolio with detailed, up-to-date status notes to ensure transparency and accountability.
- Proactively communicate project status, risks, and dependencies to Finance and HR stakeholders.
- Establish and maintain ongoing communication with the Risk function to ensure projects adhere to firm policy and compliance requirements.
- Provide general Workday troubleshooting and escalated support across modules to maintain system stability and user productivity.
- Participate in Finance and HR meetings to identify and champion new opportunities for automation and process efficiency.
- Demonstrate a commitment to continuous learning, expanding expertise into Workday areas beyond integrations to support broader team needs.
Qualifications
- Workday integrations: Proven experience designing, building, and troubleshooting Workday integrations using EIB, Core Connectors, Workday Studio, and REST/SOAP web services.
- Custom reporting: Proficiency creating and maintaining advanced, matrix, and composite reports and calculated fields for Finance and HR.
- Security administration: Hands-on experience configuring Workday security groups and domain/business process policies and conducting regular access reviews aligned to least-privilege principles.
- Business process configuration: Demonstrated ability to build, edit, and optimize Workday business processes and condition rules.
- Issue resolution: Experience monitoring and triaging configuration tickets, with strong root-cause analysis and troubleshooting skills across Workday modules.
- Automation & AI enablement: Experience scoping and delivering automation/AI solutions and training non-technical staff on tools such as Claude.
- Cross-functional collaboration: Strong communication skills and a track record of partnering across Finance, HR, and Risk, including proactive status reporting and policy/compliance coordination.
- Implementation support: Experience supporting payroll or third-party system implementations (CloudPay–Workday or comparable) from planning through go-live and stabilization.
- Project tracking & documentation: Proficiency maintaining detailed project status and documentation in ClickUp or a similar work-management tool.
- Adaptability & learning: A continuous-improvement mindset and willingness to learn Workday areas beyond integrations to support broader team needs.
- Availability: Able to work remotely, with availability for occasional in-office work and required meetings outside normal business hours.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience supporting payroll integrations, particularly CloudPay–Workday, or comparable third-party payroll/vendor integrations.
- Familiarity with automation and AI tools (such as Claude) and experience enabling or training non-technical staff to use them.
- Experience working within a governance/compliance framework and partnering with a Risk or internal controls function.
- Experience managing work and project status in ClickUp or a similar work-management tool.
- Exposure to professional services, accounting, or financial services environments.
- Workday Pro certification(s) in Integrations, Reporting, or related tracks.
Technical skills & competencies
- Workday: Integrations (EIB, Core Connector, Studio), Report Writer, Calculated Fields, Business Process Framework, Security Administration.
- Data & integration concepts: XML/XSLT, REST/SOAP web services, data transformation and error handling.
- Automation & AI: process automation design, prompt-based AI tooling, and end-user enablement.
- Tooling: ClickUp (or equivalent), help-desk/ticketing systems, and collaboration platforms (e.g., Microsoft Teams).
- Soft skills: cross-functional collaboration, clear documentation, stakeholder communication, and a continuous-improvement mindset.
Education & experience
- Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Finance, Human Resources, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
- 5+ years of relevant Workday and/or systems-integration experience, including demonstrated lead-level ownership of integrations, reporting, and configuration work.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance on the first day of employment
- Flexible Spending Account and Dependent Care Account
- 401k with Profit Sharing
- 9+ holidays and discretionary time off structure
- Parental Leave – coverage for both primary and secondary caregivers
- Tuition Assistance Program and CPA support program with cash incentive upon completion
- Discretionary incentive compensation based on firm, group and individual performance
- Incentive compensation related to origination of new client sales
- Top rated wellness program
- Flexible working environment including remote and hybrid options