Workday Financials Functional Analyst

The Opportunity:
ApplyBoard is seeking a Workday Financials Functional Analyst to help support one of our school partners in Florida. This role will be part of our Finance team and own how financial operations run within Workday for one of our school partners.

This role will partner closely with Finance leadership and operational teams, translating business needs into scalable, compliant system configurations. You will ensure data integrity, enforce controls, and continuously improve how financial processes operate.

What Youll Be Doing Every Day:

• Own governance of ledgers, cost centers, worktags, and accounting structures
• Configure journal sources, accounting rules, and support close and consolidation processes
• Manage requisitions, purchase orders, supplier invoices, and supplier accounts
• Configure spend authorization, approval workflows, and Delegation of Authority
• Configure expense policies, workflows, and corporate card integrations
• Manage asset lifecycle including acquisition, depreciation, transfers, and disposals
• Support project costing, billing, and revenue processes
• Manage customer invoicing and payments
• Configure bank accounts, payment runs, and settlement processes
• Coordinate with banking integrations
• Build financial reports, dashboards, and calculated fields
• Develop reconciliation and audit-ready reporting
• Maintain role-based security and segregation of duties in partnership with IT
• Ensure data integrity across EIB loads, integrations, and financial structures
• Lead Workday Financials release readiness, including regression testing and impact analysis
• Maintain documentation, training materials, and user guides
• Manage and prioritize a continuous improvement backlog aligned to Finance goals

What You Bring to the Table:

• 5+ years of hands-on Workday Financials experience with ownership of business process configuration
• Strong accounting knowledge including GAAP, close processes, and internal controls
• Experience with Foundation Data Model and Financial Accounting, plus at least two of: Procure-to-Pay, Expenses, Business Assets, Projects, Banking and Settlement
• Experience building Workday financial reports and calculated fields
• Strong stakeholder collaboration and requirements gathering skills
• Working knowledge of Workday security and release cycles