Description
We are seeking a Principal Business Analyst, Source to Pay to enable the optimization, governance, and transformation of Workday’s global Source to Pay value stream.
The Finance Transformation Office (FTO) drives the modernization and optimization of Workday’s global finance function. The Finance Process Ownership team is responsible for governing and transforming the end-to-end processes that enable scale, control, and efficiency across the Finance organization.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with the Finance Process Owner to define and evolve current-state and future-state process flows across the Source to Pay lifecycle.
- Support global e-invoicing initiatives and ensure compliance with regional regulatory requirements.
- Independently identify and resolve gaps, dependencies, and conflicting requirements across workstreams.
- Translate complex business, policy, and regulatory requirements into clear, scalable process designs, functional requirements, and Jira stories.
- Own requirements traceability and change management, documenting changes, assessing downstream impacts, and maintaining alignment through design, build, testing, and release.
- Facilitate requirements walkthroughs and sign-off sessions with business and technical stakeholders to confirm scope and reduce rework.
- Ensure requirements account for global process consistency while accommodating local business, tax, statutory, and payment considerations.
- Develop and maintain Source to Pay test scripts, scenarios, expected results, requirements traceability, and testing evidence.
- Execute end-to-end transaction testing across Workday Financials (Spend Management, Accounting Center) and connected systems, validating both business process and downstream accounting outcomes.
- Lead Source to Pay UAT ceremonies, driving testing progress, priorities, blockers, defects, and actions to closure.
- Track execution, requirements coverage, defects, retesting, and business sign-offs through Jira.
- Provide critical testing capacity during quarter-end, Q4 blackout, and year-end periods when Finance SME availability is constrained.
- Champion, test, and pilot new Workday features and AI capabilities across Procurement, Expenses, Supplier Accounts, and Financial Management, providing actionable feedback to Product Management.
- Drive team adoption of AI tools to produce more consistent and higher quality outputs across transformation projects.
- Support design, configuration, and adoption of scalable, system-driven Source to Pay processes powered by Workday.
About You:
- At least 8 years of progressive experience in Source to Pay, Finance Transformation, or a related discipline.
- Deep functional knowledge of supplier management, sourcing, procurement, purchase orders, invoice processing, expense management, payments, and the related accounting, tax, controls, and working-capital implications.
- Proven experience using or deploying ERPs/Sourcing/Procurement Platforms (Workday Financial Management, Workday Strategic Sourcing, Evisort a plus).
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Supply Chain, Business, or a related field.
Workday Pay Transparency Statement:
The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. Workday pay ranges vary based on work location.
Primary Location: USA.CA.Pleasanton Primary Location Base Pay Range: $163,400 USD - $245,000 USD Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $137,900 USD - $245,000 USD