Workday Financial Integration Consultant

Role Summary

Seeking an experienced Workday Financial Integration and Administration Lead to own end-to-end integration design, development, and support for Workday Financials. The role focuses on Workday Studio and EIB-based integrations, data migration from legacy finance systems, and administration of Workday Financials in a hybrid NYC environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and deploy integrations for Workday Financials using Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, RaaS, and Web Services.
• Lead data migration and conversion from legacy finance platforms (preferably including Great Plains) into Workday Financials.
• Integrate Workday Financials with external and internal systems (ERP, payroll, banking, reporting tools), ensuring secure and reliable data flows.
• Own integration design, mapping, error handling, and monitoring, including production support and issue resolution.
• Collaborate with Finance, IT, and business stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into scalable integration and configuration solutions.
• Define and execute integration and regression test strategies, test plans, and test cases for Financials integrations and related business processes.
• Provide Workday Financials administration, including configuration changes, security / user access for integrations, and environment management support.
• Lead and mentor a small team of consultants, developers, and analysts, following Agile / Scrum or hybrid methodologies.

Required Skills (Must Have)

• Strong hands-on experience in Workday Studio Development, Workday EIB, RaaS, and Workday Web Services.
• Deep working knowledge of SOAP, REST, XML, XSLT, and related integration patterns.
• Solid understanding of Workday integration design, integration frameworks, data conversion concepts, and Workday business processes for Financials.
• Proven experience delivering at least one end-to-end data migration / conversion from legacy finance systems to Workday Financials; Great Plains migration experience is a strong plus.
• Experience integrating Workday Financials with other enterprise systems (ERP, GL, AP / AR, fixed assets, banking, payroll, data warehouse, etc.).
• Strong knowledge of SDLC and best practices for production support, including monitoring, incident resolution, and performance tuning.
• Experience with project management methodologies such as Agile, Waterfall, or Scrum, including sprint planning and status reporting.
• Demonstrated leadership and team management skills, including mentoring technical teams and coordinating cross-functional stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Overall 8+ years of IT experience with at least 5 years in Workday implementations in the Finance domain.
• Minimum 4 recent years in Workday integrations and administration focused mainly on Workday Financials (Finance-focused profiles preferred; strong HCM integration backgrounds may be considered).
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Finance, or a related field; advanced degree or relevant Workday certifications are an advantage.