Senior Business Systems Analyst, Finance Systems

Responsibilities

• Serve as internal functional lead for Workday Business Assets, owning configuration of asset books, asset classes, useful lives, depreciation profiles, capitalization rules, and CIP tracking.
• Own end-to-end lease administration and lease accounting (ASC 842) across Workday and dedicated lease management platforms for real estate and infrastructure leases, including classification, right-of-use assets, liabilities, amortization, modifications, remeasurements, and disclosure reporting.
• Partner with Compute, Data Infrastructure, Procurement, Accounting, and stakeholders to manage high-value technology infrastructure assets from procurement through capitalization, transfers, and retirement; design componentization, tagging, and tracking for data centers and compute hardware at scale to meet international regulatory and compliance requirements.
• Support broader Workday Financials as secondary focus, ensuring FDM alignment for asset and lease transactions; partner on future implementations impacting assets and leases.
• Build and maintain asset rollforwards, depreciation forecasts, lease disclosure schedules, and reconciliations; support month-end and quarter-end close for fixed assets and leases.
• Collaborate with Integrations, Security, Financials teams, Real Estate, Legal, FP&A, and Tax on lease pipeline and capital planning.
• Drive ongoing Workday platform expansion, identifying process improvements and automation across asset and lease lifecycle.

Requirements

• 8+ years in finance systems, ERP implementation, or business systems analysis, with at least 5 years hands-on Workday Financials (including Business Assets), lease management, inventory, or asset management.
• Deep expertise in Workday Business Assets configuration (asset books, depreciation methods, capitalization thresholds, CIP tracking, mass transactions, transfers, disposals).
• Hands-on experience with lease accounting under ASC 842 in platforms like CoStar, FinQuery/LeaseQuery, Visual Lease.
• Strong understanding of fixed asset accounting (capitalization, useful lives, impairment, GL reconciliation) and SOX/compliance.
• Experience managing high-value technology infrastructure assets (data centers, compute hardware, networking) and tracking at scale.
• Skilled at translating business requirements into technical solutions; experience with full ERP implementation lifecycles (requirements, configuration, testing, data migration, cutover, hypercare).
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• Comfortable in fast-paced, high-growth environments.

Nice-to-Haves

• CPA or strong accounting/finance background with GAAP/IFRS knowledge (including IFRS 16).
• Experience with lease portfolios in dedicated platforms and assessing embedded leases in cloud/service contracts under ASC 842.
• Experience with Workday FDM, Prism Analytics, Accounting Center for automation.
• Technical familiarity with Claude, SQL, Workday WQL/RaaS, BigQuery, Workday Studio/Core Connector, Python.
• Knowledge of SOX for fixed assets and leases.
• Familiarity with Workday Procurement and Supply Chain (PO to asset flows).
• Prior experience at high-growth tech companies scaling toward IPO with significant capex.