Data Analyst, Workday Financials Implementation
Contract: 12 months
Location: Irvine, CA, hybrid 3 days onsite
Why this role
- Direct impact on a flagship Workday Financials rollout
- Hands on ownership of data quality from discovery to mock loads
- Close partnership with regional finance and a seasoned central data team
What you will own
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Data discovery: Inventory finance data across legacy systems. Document structures, hierarchies, and mappings required for Workday.
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Collection and cleansing: Pull datasets from systems and SMEs. Clean, normalize, and transform to meet migration templates and quality rules. Resolve gaps, duplicates, and inconsistencies.
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Validation and readiness: Verify accuracy and completeness with finance SMEs. Stage datasets for mock loads. Support reconciliations and audit checks after each load.
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Stakeholder engagement: Align with regional finance to confirm requirements, coach SMEs on templates and timelines, escalate issues early, and drive resolution.
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Program collaboration: Coordinate activities with the global migration plan. Join mapping workshops, rehearsals, and mock loads.
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Documentation and reporting: Maintain inventories, mappings, validation logs, and issue registers. Provide concise weekly status reports to regional and central teams.
What you bring
- Proven experience in finance data migration, ideally Workday Financials
- Strong understanding of finance data and accounting concepts
- Hands on skills in cleansing, transformation, and validation for large datasets
- Proficiency with Excel and SQL
- Clear communication, strong organization, and comfort managing multiple data streams
- Ability to work independently within a structured program
- Based in or able to work from Irvine, CA on a hybrid schedule
What success looks like
- Current regional data inventory and mapping documentation
- Cleansed and validated datasets ready for each migration cycle
- Tracked issues with clear ownership and closure
- Timely, accurate weekly migration status reports
How to apply: Submit your resume