Workday Financials & Payroll Analyst IV

Position Summary Workday Finance & Payroll Analyst is a senior hands‑on techno‑functional role responsible for supporting, optimizing, and governing Workday Financials and Payroll in a complex post‑go‑live environment. This position leads day‑to‑day functional design decisions, configuration support, payroll‑to‑GL alignment, controls, reporting, reconciliation, and issue resolution across Finance, Payroll, IT, and Research stakeholders. The role balances operational support, enhancement delivery, release readiness, and cross‑functional leadership to ensure Workday remains scalable, compliant, and aligned with business needs. Key Responsibilities Technical Skills: Designs and configures Workday modules across assigned functional area. Oversees complex Workday integrations using Workday Studio, EIB, and middleware platforms. Leads performance tuning, system audits, data quality governance, and compliance activities. Develops advanced security frameworks, role‑based access models, and audit controls. Defines enterprise reporting standards leveraging Workday Reporting and Prism Analytics. Manages technical aspects of Workday system upgrades, including configuration updates, regression testing, and validation of new features. Ensures technical readiness for Workday release cycles and coordinates upgrade‑related tasks across teams. Communication and Influencing Skills: Develops and manages detailed work plans and timelines for Workday projects. Identifies resources needed to complete assigned tasks and provides timely status reports. Drives consensus among functional stakeholders and IT on system solutions. Facilitates leadership briefings to present technical strategy, project milestones, and ROI analyses. Authors strategic documentation and governance standards. Customer Relationship Skills: Develops strong relationships with business end‑user communities and external Workday partners. Clearly articulates Workday concepts, design decisions and impacts. Serves as advisor to business leaders regarding Workday capabilities and opportunities. Champions user adoption and optimization initiatives. Cross‑Functional Integration and Reporting: Leads design, build, and testing of Workday integrations. Develops and documents data transformation rules and reconciliation procedures. Leads efforts to standardize and streamline reporting practices. Collaborates with enterprise architecture teams to ensure Workday interoperability and scalability. Coordinates integration testing and validation during Workday upgrade cycles to ensure seamless functionality across systems. Partners with cross‑functional teams to assess impact of new Workday features on existing integrations and reporting frameworks. Key Responsibilities: Provides strategic mentorship to Workday analysts and administrators. Develops technical standards and best practices for Workday configurations and integrations. Serves as IT Workday lead for executive stakeholders during redesigns and major initiatives. Plans and executes system upgrades, including feature adoption, regression testing, and impact analysis. Coordinates upgrade cycles with Workday release schedules, ensuring compliance with organizational change management processes. Leads validation of new functionality, security updates, and reporting enhancements introduced in Workday releases. Leads scoping, planning, and execution of enterprise Workday programs. Education Bachelor's Degree or 6 years equivalent experience Workday Financials certification preferred; Workday Payroll certification preferred Experience 6+ years of progressive experience in Workday systems design, implementation, and support; Experience leading Workday implementations and governance Experience in healthcare The posted pay range is Boston Children's reasonable and good‑faith expectation for this pay at the time of posting. Any base pay offer provided depends on skills, experience, education, certifications, and a variety of other job‑related factors. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive benefits package that includes flexible schedules, affordable health, vision and dental insurance, child care and student loan subsidies, generous levels of time off, 403(b) Retirement Savings plan, Pension, Tuition and certain License and Certification Reimbursement, cell phone plan discounts and discounted rates on T‑passes. Experience the benefits of passion and teamwork. #J-18808-Ljbffr Boston Children's Hospital