Senior Workday Integrations Manager, Finance

Job description

Work with a Top 20 CPA and advisory firm that Accounts for Anything. Aprio has 40 U.S. office locations, as well as international office locations and more than 3,200 team members that speak 60+ languages across the globe. By bringing together proven expertise, deep understanding, and strategic foresight for fast-growing industries, Aprio ensures clients are prepared for wherever life or business may take them. Discover a top-rated culture, vast growth opportunities and your next big career move with Aprio. Join Aprio's **Finance** team and you will help clients maximize their opportunities. Aprio Advisory Group, LLC is a progressive, fast-growing firm looking for a **Senior Workday Integrations Manager** to join their dynamic team. The Workday Integrations, Automation & Technical Lead owns the design, build, and ongoing health of Workday integrations and automations across Finance and HR. This role pairs hands-on technical work — integrations, custom reports, business processes, and security — with cross-functional coordination, partnering closely with Finance, HR, and Risk to deliver compliant, efficient, and well-documented solutions. The Lead also champions emerging automation and AI tools (such as Claude) by enabling and training internal staff, and provides technical support for the CloudPay–Workday implementation effort. ### Key Responsibilities: - Design, develop, maintain, and troubleshoot Workday integrations (EIB, Core Connectors, Studio, and web services), ensuring reliable and secure data exchange across systems. - Develop and maintain custom Workday reports — including advanced, matrix, and composite reports — to meet evolving Finance and HR reporting needs. - Administer Workday security by assigning, auditing, and regularly reviewing role-based permissions to safeguard data integrity and enforce least-privilege access. - Configure, optimize, and maintain Workday business processes and condition rules to support efficient, compliant workflows. - Monitor and triage help desk tickets related to Workday configuration, resolving issues promptly and identifying recurring trends for proactive remediation. - Partner with Finance and HR to scope, prioritize, and deliver automation and AI solutions that streamline manual processes. - Serve as a cross-functional liaison between Finance and HR, coordinating Workday configuration efforts and aligning processes across both functions. - Develop and deliver training and enablement on automation and AI tools (such as Claude), building internal capability and driving staff adoption. - Provide technical and functional support for current and upcoming CloudPay–Workday implementations, from planning through go-live and stabilization. - Maintain a comprehensive ClickUp project portfolio with detailed, up-to-date status notes to ensure transparency and accountability. - Proactively communicate project status, risks, and dependencies to Finance and HR stakeholders. - Establish and maintain ongoing communication with the Risk function to ensure projects adhere to firm policy and compliance requirements. - Provide general Workday troubleshooting and escalated support across modules to maintain system stability and user productivity. - Participate in Finance and HR meetings to identify and champion new opportunities for automation and process efficiency. - Demonstrate a commitment to continuous learning, expanding expertise into Workday areas beyond integrations to support broader team needs. ### Qualifications: **Required** - **Workday integrations**: Proven experience designing, building, and troubleshooting Workday integrations using EIB, Core Connectors, Workday Studio, and REST/SOAP web services. - **Custom reporting**: Proficiency creating and maintaining advanced, matrix, and composite reports and calculated fields for Finance and HR. - **Security administration**: Hands-on experience configuring Workday security groups and domain/business process policies and conducting regular access reviews aligned to least-privilege principles. - **Business process configuration**: Demonstrated ability to build, edit, and optimize Workday business processes and condition rules. - **Issue resolution**: Experience monitoring and triaging configuration tickets, with strong root-cause analysis and troubleshooting skills across Workday modules. - **Automation & AI enablement**: Experience scoping and delivering automation/AI solutions and training non-technical staff on tools such as Claude. - **Cross-functional collaboration**: Strong communication skills and a track record of partnering across Finance, HR, and Risk, including proactive status reporting and policy/compliance coordination. - **Implementation support**: Experience supporting payroll or third-party system implementations (CloudPay–Workday or comparable) from planning through go-live and stabilization. - **Project tracking & documentation**: Proficiency maintaining detailed project status and documentation in ClickUp or a similar work-management tool. - **Adaptability & learning**: A continuous-improvement mindset and willingness to learn Workday areas beyond integrations to support broader team needs. - **Availability**: Able to work remotely, with availability for occasional in-office work and required meetings outside normal business hours. **Preferred** - Experience supporting payroll integrations, particularly CloudPay–Workday, or comparable third-party payroll/vendor integrations. - Familiarity with automation and AI tools (such as Claude) and experience enabling or training non-technical staff to use them. - Experience working within a governance/compliance framework and partnering with a Risk or internal controls function. - Experience managing work and project status in ClickUp or a similar work-management tool. - Exposure to professional services, accounting, or financial services environments. - Workday Pro certification(s) in Integrations, Reporting, or related tracks. - Technical Skills & Competencies - Drafted for your review — adjust to firm standards. - Workday: Integrations (EIB, Core Connector, Studio), Report Writer, Calculated Fields, Business Process Framework, Security Administration. - Data & integration concepts: XML/XSLT, REST/SOAP web services, data transformation and error handling. - Automation & AI: process automation design, prompt-based AI tooling, and end-user enablement. - Tooling: ClickUp (or equivalent), help-desk/ticketing systems, and collaboration platforms (e.g., Microsoft Teams). - Soft skills: cross-functional collaboration, clear documentation, stakeholder communication, and a continuous-improvement mindset. ### Education & Experience - Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Finance, Human Resources, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience). - 5+ years of relevant Workday and/or systems-integration experience, including demonstrated lead-level ownership of integrations, reporting, and configuration work.