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uOttawa | Carrières - Careers · 1 month ago

Senior Specialist, Finance Business Applications (Workday)

Main Campus

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid, Senior Level

$91K/yr - $115K/yr

5+ years exp

The University of Ottawa is seeking a Senior Specialist in Finance Business Applications, focusing on Workday. This role involves providing expert guidance in financial management and reporting, optimizing finance operations, and supporting stakeholders with system configurations and data analytics.

Human Resources

Responsibilities

Intimately understands customers’ operational and strategic needs and provides expert advice to improve procedures or system configurations

Offers a simple, seamless, and collaborative stakeholder experience to customers

Reviews system capabilities and workflows and identifies ways to simplify the client’s experience

Addresses inefficiencies or configuration issues and escalates as necessary

Assists clients in the evaluation of their current processes and identifies new techniques to take full advantage of system capabilities

Keeps apprised of evolving industry tools and business processes and recommends improvements

Maintains and modifies business processes, workflows, naming conventions, and data masters in accordance with approved design principles, governance frameworks, and institutional business rules, procedures, and policies

Assigns security roles and develops custom reports

Identifies and resolves quality problems and troubleshoots and fixes bugs

Monitors master data relationships, ensures master data integrity (by addressing record duplications, format inconsistencies, incompleteness, inaccuracies, etc)

Its core system will be the ERP (on modules for accounting, asset management, grants management, the foundation data model structure, financial planning, procurement, sourcing, inventory management, expenses, payroll, human capital management, compensation, time tracking and absence, position control and organization management)

However, it will also support other Finance and HR applications

Supports continuous improvements and change management efforts across the University and ensures smooth transitions from current to desired business practices

Qualification

Workday FinanceFinance business processesData analyticsBusiness IntelligenceProject managementTechnical documentationBilingualismClient service orientationChange managementTeamwork

Required

University Degree in Commerce, Administration, Business Technology Management or/and an equivalent combination of education and experience

Minimum 5 years of experience supporting business units and their system needs

Experience supporting Workday Finance (Workday trainings and certifications will be considered an asset)

Experience in project and change management

Thorough knowledge and experience of finance business processes, rules, policies, priorities, and regulations

Knowledge of the administrative operations of public institutions

Experience with Microsoft Excel, Business Intelligence, or other data management tools to manipulate, convert, clean, and present complex data

Knowledge of computing principles and the configuration and development of finance technical applications

Experience conducting client needs assessments and prioritizing business requirements

Experience writing and maintaining business and technical documentation, and providing training

Experience coordinating operational services for clients with diverse needs

Ability to negotiate and influence clients in accepting solutions that align both the strategic goals of the University and short- and long-term client requirements

Strong analytical skills to convert business requirements into functional specifications, as well as the ability to conceptualize individual requirements and create links between different stakeholders' needs

Ability to adapt to ever-changing requirements and processes, challenge ideas, and accept new methods and procedures

This position can be called upon working with different teams and projects within the department

Bilingualism – French and English (spoken and written)