Job Abstract

The Workday Financials initiative is part of the Finance Transformation Program at FactSet.  Expanding Workday Financials is viewed as a project to drive profitability, support global sales goals, and make us nimble to meet the current complex business environment that we operate in.

With a wealth of learning and career development opportunities, and best of breed technology platforms across our internal and external ecosystems, we make sure our people continue to grow both professionally and personally. If you're looking for an organization with a strong team connection where you can be your whole self, have an impact, advance your skills, deepen your experiences, and have the flexibility and access to constantly find new areas of inspiration and expand your capabilities, you have come to the right place.

Responsibilities:

• As part of a larger team, manages the administration of the Workday system including system configuration, maintaining security, data audits and corrections, and introduction of new functionality.
• Manage twice a year mandatory release.
• Identify, recommend, and track opportunities for process and operational improvements.
  Analyze problems, formulate solutions and alternatives, and deliver solutions that achieve desired results in a timely and cost-efficient manner.
• Design, develop, and support custom Advanced, Composite and Matrix Reports.  Business Process Validation Rules, Calculated Fields and EIBs
• Resident expert in the Workday Financials product suite and ensure business partners take advantage of best practices
• Implement standards and best practices for supporting Financial Systems used by the Finance organization
• Maintain a thorough understanding of the accounting system design, particularly related to data flow

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s Degree in business, Accounting, MIS, Engineering or Computer Science
• Workday Billing certification and a minimum of three successful Workday Billing implementations
• 5-7 Years of experience in Workday Financials implementation or support role 
• Customer Focused – personally demonstrate that both external and internal customers are a high priority by identifying and responding to their needs in a timely and efficient manner
• Experience implementing Avalara

Highly Desired:

• Initiative – Recognizes opportunities and initiates actions to capitalize on them by looking for a new and productive ways to make an impact
• Capable of writing Standard, Advanced, Matrix and Composite reports. Experience with creating complex calculated fields, custom objects
• Must be experienced user of MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, Access, PowerPoint; In Excel, must have ability to create pivot tables, v/lookups).
• Ability to act quickly and iterate to achieve results
• Building Organizational Commitment – Demonstrates commitment, integrity and appreciation for the organization
• Knowledge of Workday Planning
• Workday certified in Financials

The budgeted salary range for this position in the state of Connecticut and New York City is $130,000 - $155,000.

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FactSet is an Equal Opportunity Employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity