Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Exemplar Luxury Group is a luxury retail collective operating across Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Bergdorf Goodman. The Workday Financial Analyst translates Finance and Accounting requirements into scalable Workday Financial Management solutions, configures and maintains financial processes, executes data loads, and supports release testing and production issue resolution.
Responsibilities
- **Requirement Gathering & Solution Design:** Partner directly with Finance and Accounting stakeholders to capture operational requirements, user stories, and accounting logic, translating business challenges into clean functional designs and Workday configurations
- **Full-Suite Financials Configuration:** Configure, test, and maintain business processes, validation rules, condition rules, and custom notifications across the end-to-end Workday Financials environment (General Ledger, Worktags, AR, Banking, Procurement, and Expenses)
- **Financial Operations & EIB Management:** Create, validate, and execute Enterprise Interface Builders (EIBs) for mass accounting adjustments, customer invoices, asset additions, and periodic data maintenance initiatives
- **Biannual Release Testing & Quality Assurance:** Drive release readiness by evaluating new financial features, building scenario-based test scripts, and executing regression testing during Workday's R1 and R2 biannual updates
- **Agile Triage & System Maintenance:** Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve functional production tickets across financial modules, identifying root causes, configuring sustainable fixes, and supporting month-end close operations
Skills
- 3–5 years of hands-on functional Workday Financials configuration and administration experience
- Demonstrated track record configuring and supporting Workday Core Financials / GL, custom Worktags, and Business Process (BP) framework architecture
- Hands-on functional configuration experience across multiple Finance modules (e.g., Accounts Receivable, Banking & Settlement, Procurement, Expenses, or Asset Management)
- Solid proficiency in creating, validating, and executing inbound/outbound EIBs with strong financial data accuracy discipline
- Experience utilizing calculated fields to support accounting logic and conditional BP routing
- Solid understanding of general accounting principles (GAAP/IFRS), financial period closes, and standard business-to-financial transaction workflows
- Strong analytical problem-solving skills with experience operating in an agile team/squad environment and collaborating effectively with Finance business partners
- Workday Financials
Benefits
- Opportunity to work in a dynamic fast paced environment at a company experiencing growth and transformation
- Exposure to rewarding career advancement opportunities across the largest multi-brand luxury retailer from retail to distribution, to digital or corporate
- Comprehensive benefits package for all eligible full-time employees, including medical, vision and dental
- An amazing employee discount
- Medical insurance, subject to applicable eligibility requirements
- Dental insurance, subject to applicable eligibility requirements
- Vision insurance, subject to applicable eligibility requirements
- 401(k) retirement plan, subject to applicable eligibility requirements
- Basic life insurance, subject to applicable eligibility requirements
- Supplemental life insurance, subject to applicable eligibility requirements
- Disability insurance, subject to applicable eligibility requirements
- Additional voluntary benefits, such as critical illness, hospital and accident insurance, subject to applicable eligibility requirements
Company Overview