Finance Manager

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Job description

Do what you love. Love what you do.

At Workday, we help the world's largest organizations adapt to what's next by bringing finance, HR, and planning into a single enterprise cloud. We work hard, and we're serious about what we do. But we like to have fun, too. We put people first, celebrate diversity, drive innovation, and do good in the communities where we live and work.

About the Team

At Workday, we help the world's largest organizations adapt to what's next by bringing finance, HR, and planning into a single enterprise cloud. We work hard, and we're serious about what we do. But we like to have fun, too. We put people first, celebrate diversity, drive innovation, and do good in the communities where we live and work.

About the Role

Workday is seeking a finance professional to join the Business Finance team in a role focused on business partnering and financial performance analysis and reporting to the Sale Finance organization. We're looking for an organized, detail oriented, self-starter with a desire to learn. This is an individual contributor role with a great chance to join a top-tier SaaS company, while offering a ton of exposure and ability to influence the business.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

* Business forecasting - Drive bookings and renewals forecast cycle, ensuring accurate projections, appropriate level of reporting, analysis, and communication

* Business performance reporting - Prepare monthly/quarterly financial review presentations (including collecting, formatting, and analyzing information) and assist in presenting the materials to senior leadership teams

* Financial, Operational, Ad-hoc analysis - Combine quantitative and qualitative analysis to highlight business risks and opportunities for business units. Participate in the continuous planning process by delivering sales forecasts and building business cases to unlock future investment. Promote sales growth and profitability objectives, and help your business partners achieve their financial targets.

* Business processes - Become acquainted with business processes and highlight opportunities for automation and process improvement with cross-functional teams

* Business partnering - Develop trusted relationships with and be the primary Business Finance point of contact for several VP-level Sale & Operations leaders. Collaborate with leaders to provide the visibility they need to make key business decisions

* Financial close - Occasionally prepare journal entries related to financial close activities (end-of period accruals, reclass entries)

About You

Required Qualifications:

* Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance required

* Minimum 4 years related FP&A / Operational / Strategic Finance experience

Preferred Additional Qualifications:

* Proficiency in analytical and financial modeling skills (Excel / Google Sheets), with strong attention to detail and accuracy

* Exposure to accounting principles (revenue, cost of revenue, operating expense) and their application to periodic financial reporting, planning and forecasting.

* Knowledge of SaaS metrics such as ARR, net dollar retention, LTV, etc.

* Ability to navigate systems for analysis and reporting. Prior exposure to products such as Workday Adaptive Planning and Tableau a plus

* Exceptional organizational, communication, and collaboration skills - nothing falls through the cracks, you over-communicate, and excel working as part of a team

* Willingness and ability to adapt to the rapid business and organizational changes that accompany a high-growth environment

* Positive, self-starter attitude with an eagerness learn and improve

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