# Senior Finance Systems Engineer

**Company:** [Celonis](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/celonis)
**Location:** Madrid, Spain
**Role:** IT Support
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Workday Financials, General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Procurement, Workday Business Processes, Workday Security, Custom Reporting, Calculated Fields, Eibs, Workday Integrations, Middleware, Make.Com, Agile, Scrum
**Posted:** 2026-07-24

> The Senior Finance Systems Engineer will design, configure, integrate, and continuously improve Workday Financials solutions supporting global Finance operations. The role requires extensive Workday Financials expertise, strong accounting knowledge, and ownership of end-to-end technical delivery.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

### Solution Design & Delivery
- Lead functional and technical design of complex Workday Financials enhancements across multiple business domains.
- Translate accounting and finance requirements into scalable, maintainable system solutions.
- Evaluate solution options, identify trade-offs, and recommend implementation approaches aligned with platform standards.
- Lead technical discovery sessions for medium to large initiatives.
- Own end-to-end technical delivery from discovery and solution design through testing, deployment, and production support.
- Provide technical guidance and support to other Finance Systems Engineers.

### Finance Systems Engineering
- Configure and optimize Workday Financials while ensuring consistency, scalability, and data integrity.
- Design solutions that translate operational activity into financial transactions, journal entries, and financial reporting.
- Drive continuous improvement through configuration, automation, and process simplification.
- Produce and maintain technical documentation and solution designs.

### Integrations & Automation
- Design and implement lightweight integrations and workflow automations using Make.com and other integration platforms.
- Partner with integration engineers and external system owners to ensure reliable end-to-end financial data flows.
- Troubleshoot integration issues and improve resilience, scalability, and maintainability.

### Finance Partnership
- Serve as a technical partner to Corporate Accounting during projects, month-end close improvements, and production support.
- Investigate complex functional issues and perform root cause analysis across Workday and connected systems.
- Support Finance teams in evaluating, testing, and adopting functionality delivered through Workday biannual releases.

### Continuous Improvement
- Evaluate new Workday capabilities and emerging technologies that could improve Finance operations.
- Contribute technical recommendations for platform enhancements and process optimization.
- Participate in Workday biannual release planning, impact assessments, testing, and implementation.

## Requirements
- Extensive experience supporting Workday Financials in a complex enterprise environment.
- Strong functional knowledge across multiple Workday Financials modules, including General Ledger, Procurement, Accounts Payable, Expenses, Banking, Billing, Accounts Receivable, and/or Revenue Management.
- Expert proficiency configuring Workday business processes, security frameworks, custom reporting, and complex calculated fields.
- Experience leveraging EIBs for data management.
- Understanding of accounting principles, financial reporting, journal entries, and financial data flows.
- Experience leading end-to-end solution delivery from discovery and solution design through testing, deployment, and post-production support.
- Experience designing system solutions that balance business requirements with technical best practices.
- Experience with Workday integrations, EIBs, middleware platforms, or similar integration technologies.
- Experience working within Agile software delivery teams.
- Full professional proficiency in English.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience using Scrum methodologies in Agile delivery teams.
- Experience mentoring or providing technical guidance to engineers.
- Experience supporting global Finance organizations.
- Exposure to AI-enabled productivity tools such as Google Gemini and GenAI assistants.

## Benefits
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) and merit-based refresh grants for full-time employees.
- Inclusive parental leave policy: 24 weeks of fully paid leave for primary carers and 12 weeks for supporting carers, available from the first day of employment.

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