Senior Configuration Specialist - Workday Financials

Location Details: Pune, India

At GoDaddy the future of work looks different for each team. Some teams work in the office full-time, others have a hybrid arrangement (they work remotely some days and in the office some days) and some work entirely remotely.

This is a remote position, so you’ll be working remotely from your home. You may occasionally visit a GoDaddy office to meet with your team for events or meetings.

In this role you will work with a globally dispersed team which requires working outside of normal business hours.

Join our team

Our Transformation team is seeking a Senior Workday Configuration Specialist to help us design, test, and implement configuration changes that align the Workday Financials platform with our constantly evolving business processes.

What you'll get to do...

• Translate Finance & Accounting business needs into platform solutions
• Effectively join forces with business partners to gather and clarify business requirements, prototype, test, and demo solutions of varying complexity
• Seek to understand company policies, processes, and standards to address partner needs while aligning with Workday standard methodologies effectively
• Act as Technical Lead on complex projects (in-house or out-sourced), chipping in and delegating technical tasks independently
• Identify, prototype, and demo functionalities that fit arising business use cases
• Know the latest on newly released functionalities, champion adoption across partner teams (Workday Releases)
• Adhere to and champion the Transformation teams documented standards of deployment (testing, documentation, peer review). Establish new and refine existing policies, procedures, and documentation standards to optimize request intake. Partner with other development teams and businesses to outline operating procedures for complex processes/requests
• Mentor junior team members and host cross-training sessions
• Peer review team members’ configuration design and deployment, and improve system configuration and quality standards on the team
• Lead and participate in scrum ceremonies with business as well as internal development teams
• Provide support and training to system end users

Your experience should include...

• 4+ years of experience with Workday Financials configuration
• Knowledge of Workday's business process framework and finance functional configuration (business process configuration, security framework, condition rules, calculated fields, reporting)
• Experience around the standardization of the following functions: Financial Accounting/FDM, Banking & Settlement, Expenses, and Customer Accounts
• Experience leading and/or deploying complex Workday system improvements

You might also have...

• Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Workday Implementation
• Experience supporting multi-national companies
• Experience involving mergers and acquisitions
• Experience with public company compliance/Sarbanes–Oxley (SOX)
• Functional expertise in Accounting, Procure-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash, etc.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a relevant field (Business, Finance, Accounting, Computer Science, etc.)

We've got your back...  We offer a range of total rewards that may include paid time off, retirement savings (e.g., 401k, pension schemes), bonus/incentive eligibility, equity grants, participation in our employee stock purchase plan, competitive health benefits, and other family-friendly benefits including parental leave. GoDaddy’s benefits vary based on individual role and location and can be reviewed in more detail during the interview process.

We also embrace our diverse culture and offer a range of Employee Resource Groups (Culture). Have a side hustle? No problem. We love entrepreneurs! Most importantly, come as you are and make your own way. 

About us...  GoDaddy is empowering everyday entrepreneurs around the world by providing the help and tools to succeed online, making opportunity more inclusive for all. GoDaddy is the place people come to name their idea, build a professional website, attract customers, sell their products and services, and manage their work. Our mission is to give our customers the tools, insights, and people to transform their ideas and personal initiative into success. To learn more about the company, visit About Us. 

At GoDaddy, we know diverse teams build better products—period. Our people and culture reflect and celebrate that sense of diversity and inclusion in ideas, experiences and perspectives. But we also know that’s not enough to build true equity and belonging in our communities. That’s why we prioritize integrating diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging principles into the core of how we work every day—focusing not only on our employee experience, but also our customer experience and operations. It’s the best way to serve our mission of empowering entrepreneurs everywhere, and making opportunity more inclusive for all. To read more about these commitments, as well as our representation and pay equity data, check out our Diversity and Pay Parity annual report which can be found on our Diversity Careers page.

GoDaddy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. GoDaddy will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with local and federal requirements. Refer to our full EEO policy.

Our recruiting team is available to assist you in completing your application. If they could be helpful, please reach out to [email protected]. 

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