Workday Financials Business Analyst
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Job Summary
The Finance Transformation team at MUFG Investor Services is responsible for enabling a modern digital finance function through process optimization automation and technology adoption across our finance systems and connected solutions. The team partners across various departments including IT HR Legal Procurement Third Party Management Business Operations Compliance Data and others to ensure financial processes remain integrated governed efficient and strategically aligned with business goals.
The Workday Financials Business Analyst plays a key role in designing configuring and optimizing finance processes within Workday Financials. This is a handson role focused on endtoend process ownership system configuration and continuous improvement. The role acts as a functional bridge between Finance and IT translating business needs into welldesigned scalable system solutions while actively contributing to system build testing and optimization activities.
Role and Responsibilities
- Partner with Finance stakeholders (Accounting FP&A Operations) to understand document and improve core finance processes (e.g. ProcuretoPay RecordtoReport).
- Design and document endtoend process flows futurestate solutions and functional specifications.
- Configure and maintain Workday Financials modules including General Ledger Accounts Payable Procurement Expenses and Projects.
- Maintain and optimize Workday Business Process Frameworks (BPFs) security roles and configuration settings.
- Build and enhance Workday reports and dashboards to support financial and operational decisionmaking.
- Support integrations between Workday and upstream/downstream systems by defining functional requirements validating data flows and supporting testing activities.
- Participate in system releases user acceptance testing (UAT) regression testing and issue resolution.
- Own daytoday system enhancements defect management and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Maintain accurate documentation of processes configurations data flows and standard operating procedures.
- Contribute to broader ERP initiatives including rollouts enhancements and postimplementation optimization.
Qualifications :
Education Requirements
- Bachelors degree in Finance Accounting Business Information Systems or a related field (required)
- Workday certification or progress toward certification (preferred)
- Process improvement or business analyst designation e.g. Lean Six Sigma CBAP or similar (preferred)
Professional Experience
- 35 years of experience in business analysis finance operations or ERP / finance systems roles.
- Handson experience configuring or supporting Workday Financials.
- Strong/developing understanding of core finance processes (GL AP AR Procurement Expenses).
- Experience supporting system implementations enhancements or transformation initiatives.
- Exposure to integrations data migration or system testing activities preferred.
Key Skills and Attributes
- Strong process mindset with the ability to think endtoend across systems and workflows.
- Comfortable working directly in enterprise systems (configuration reporting testing).
- Strong analytical and problemsolving skills with attention to detail.
- Ability to translate business requirements into practical system solutions.
- Effective communicator across Finance and IT stakeholders.
- Proactive curious and committed to continuous improvement.
- Strong documentation and organizational skills.
- Collaborative team contributor with a sense of ownership and accountability.
Additional Information :
At MUFG Investor Services we are exceptionally proud of our approach to Hybrid Working. It enables the flexibility to thrive from wherever our employees work and stay connected to their team and our culture. When we make Hybrid Working plans we get to know the individual and pride ourselves in underpinning all our decisions with fairness and consistency.
MUFG Investor Services provides all of its employees with an attractive compensation addition to base salary there is a group medical insurance scheme group pension scheme reimbursement of professional subscriptions paid holidays and assistance towards gym memberships.
We thank all candidates for applying; however only those proceeding to the interview stage will be contacted. If you are contacted for a job opportunity please advise us of any accommodations needed to ensure fair and equitable access throughout the recruitment and selection process. All accommodation information provided will be treated as confidential and used only to provide an accessible candidate experience.
MUFG is an equal opportunity employer.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
About Company
Were more than just fund administration. Our offerings include a scope of solutions not historically provided by asset servicing companies. From fund financing to subscription lines of credit, securities lending, foreign exchange (FX) services, consulting services and beyond, we help ... View more