Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. RAIS USA is seeking an experienced Workday Accounting Centre and Financial Data Model Consultant to support Workday Financials initiatives. The role focuses on designing, configuring, implementing, and optimizing Workday Accounting Centre, FDM, financial accounting, general ledger, worktags, and related accounting structures while collaborating with finance, accounting, IT, and business stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, configuration, and optimisation of the Workday Financial Data Model (FDM)
- Configure and support Workday Accounting Centre and Financial Accounting functionality
- Design and maintain Worktags, ledgers, ledger accounts, account posting rules, hierarchies, and related accounting structures
- Partner with Finance and Accounting teams to develop and optimise the Chart of Accounts (COA) and financial reporting structures
- Configure accounting rules and transformations to convert operational/source-system transactions into appropriate Workday accounting entries
- Support Accounting Centre data ingestion, mapping, validation, and reconciliation
- Ensure accurate integration of financial data between Workday and upstream/downstream systems
- Analyse existing accounting and finance processes and recommend Workday best practices and process improvements
- Support General Ledger, journals, allocations, period close, reconciliations, and financial reporting processes
- Develop functional specifications and configuration documentation
- Participate in system testing, integration testing, UAT, defect resolution, and production deployment
- Troubleshoot FDM, Accounting Center, posting, and financial reporting issues
- Collaborate with technical/integration teams on Workday integrations and data transformation requirements
- Provide knowledge transfer and post-production/hypercare support
Skills
- 5+ years of Workday Financials experience , preferably in implementation or transformation projects
- Strong hands-on experience with Workday Accounting Center
- Deep expertise in Workday Financial Data Model (FDM)
- Strong Workday Financial Accounting and General Ledger (GL) configuration experience
- Experience designing and configuring:
- Worktags
- Ledger Accounts
- Account Posting Rules
- Accounting Journals
- Cost Centers
- Companies and Organizations
- Hierarchies
- Financial reporting structures
- Strong understanding of accounting principles and financial reporting
- Experience translating Finance/Accounting requirements into Workday configurations
- Experience with data mapping, conversions, integrations, reconciliation, and validation
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, documentation, and stakeholder-management skills
- Workday Accounting Centre Certification
- Workday FDM / Financials Certification
- Experience with Workday Financial Accounting, Budgets, Reporting, and related Finance modules
- Experience integrating Accounting Center with high-volume external transaction/source systems
- Experience with Workday reporting and financial analytics
- Previous experience working in large enterprise Workday transformation programs
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement in the USA
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