HBITS-08-15106 - Workday Financials Solutions Architect (In-Person Interview)

****In-Person Interview****

Description

CUNY is seeking a temporary Workday Financials Architect, providing expert guidance and hands-on support for the CUNYWork implementation. The consultant will review and validate financial configurations, optimize cross-functional business processes, identify and mitigate pre-go-live risks, and ensure the solution aligns with Workday best practices and CUNY's operational requirements.

Duties

• Review and validate the ongoing implementation of Workday Financials configurations and business processes.
• Provide solution architecture and functional guidance across financial workstreams.
• Assess configurations for alignment with Workday best practices and CUNY business requirements.
• Validate implemented business requirements to ensure solutions are streamlined, scalable, supportable, and aligned with long-term operational needs.
• Identify configuration gaps, implementation risks, unnecessary complexity, and opportunities for improvement.
• Validate end-to-end financial processes across Workday Financials, including Accounting, Budgeting, Procurement, Grants, Expenses, Capital Projects, Banking, and Revenue. Requires a working knowledge of all modules and deep, hands-on expertise in at least three.
• Develop Workday financial reports and dashboards (Advanced, Matrix, Composite, and calculated fields) across journals, ledgers, budgets, grants, suppliers, invoices, and assets. Experience with Workday Prism Analytics and with integrating Workday data into Power BI is a plus.

Mandatory Requirements

• Experience (15+ Years)
• Makes high-level design choices and dictates technical standards, including software coding standards, tools, and platforms. Designs multi-leveled architecture or component interactions of a large-scale software system

Requirements

• This is an 100% Onsite
• 84 months of experience reviewing, validating, and optimizing Workday Financials configurations and business processes, while providing solution architecture and functional leadership to ensure alignment with Workday best practices, organizational requirements, and long-term operational sustainability.
• 84 months of experience designing, configuring, reviewing, and validating end-to-end business processes across the Workday Financials suite, including General Ledger/Accounting, Budgeting, Procurement, Supplier Accounts, Expenses, Grants, Capital Projects, Banking, and Revenue Management, with demonstrated working knowledge of all major financial modules and deep functional expertise in at least three areas, including Accounting/General Ledger and related financial management processes.
• 84 months of experience assessing implemented business requirements and translating them into streamlined, scalable, maintainable, and supportable Workday Financials solutions.
• 84 months of experience identifying configuration gaps, implementation risks, process inefficiencies, and opportunities for optimization within enterprise ERP implementations.
• 84 months of experience collaborating with functional, technical, business, and implementation teams to evaluate solution designs, resolve issues, and support enterprise-wide ERP implementations.
• 84 months of experience documenting configuration decisions, design recommendations, business process findings, and functional architecture documentation.
• 84 months of experience developing Workday Financials reports, dashboards, and analytics solutions, including Advanced Reports, Matrix Reports, Composite Reports, calculated fields, Workday Prism Analytics, and integrations with business intelligence platforms such as Microsoft Power BI, supporting financial operations, accounting, budgeting, grants, procurement, suppliers, invoices, journals, and assets.
• 60 months of experience reviewing and assessing Workday security configurations, including role-based and user-based security groups, domain security policies, business process security policies, and Segregation of Duties (SoD) controls to support financial compliance, auditability, and risk management.
• 60 months of experience planning, coordinating, and supporting System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and pre-go-live validation activities for ERP implementations.
• R sum
• Copy of Candidate Identification(i.e., Driver's License//Visa and Passport if applicable)
• Any documents referenced in the above Requested Qualifications(i.e., professional certifications, degrees, etc.)