Workday Financials Senior Solution Architect/Functional Lead *Hybrid*

As a Functional Solution Architect, you will:

• Lead the functional strategy for Workday Financials, starting with the Finance domain and expanding across the enterprise

• Translate complex Finance and Accounting requirements into scalable, well-designed Workday solutions

• Provide hands-on leadership for Workday Financials implementations, enhancements, and integrations

• Partner closely with Finance stakeholders, partner teams, product managers, engineers to solve complex business problems

• Facilitate and lead design sessions to ensure solutions are efficient, resilient, and aligned with business goals

• Apply expertise across ERP platforms (e.g., Workday, PeopleSoft, Oracle, SAP, Hyperion) to introduce best practices and modernize systems

• Define and execute a functional transformation roadmap that increases delivery velocity

• Own solution quality, performance, scalability, and usability across Finance technology

• Mentor and influence engineers and product teams, raising the bar for solution excellence

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders and executives, helping shape long-term vision and direction

• Share best practices and continuously improve processes across teams, Great Rewards: We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family's overall well-being.

• Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.

• Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.

• Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.

Do you have experience in Workshop facilitation?, * 10+ years of Finance domain experience with industry-leading ERP solutions, including Workday Financials

• 8+ years designing and architecting Workday Financial implementations

• Hands-on experience delivering Workday Financials solutions (implementation and/or large-scale enhancement programs)

• Strong Finance and Accounting process knowledge (e.g., GL, period close, AP/AR, management reporting) and the ability to translate it into functional design

• Proven ability to lead solution design workshops, document requirements, and drive decisions across complex stakeholder groups

• Experience partnering with technical teams on integrations, data mappings, and end-to-end testing to move solutions from concept to production

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level storytelling and influence

Preferred

• Workday Financials certifications and/or deep expertise in one or more areas such as: Order to Cash, Record to Report, Source to Pay, Accounting Center, Supplier Accounts, Expenses, Procurement, Assets, Revenue, Banking & Settlement, or Prism/Reporting

• Experience designing for controls and audit readiness (e.g., role-based security, segregation of duties, SOX-aligned control environments)

• Experience with enterprise integration patterns (e.g., EIB, Studio, APIs) and finance data platforms (data lake/warehouse, marts)

• Prior experience with other ERP ecosystems (e.g., PeopleSoft, Oracle, SAP, Hyperion) and finance transformation modernization efforts

• Experience operating in agile product delivery models and collaborating with product management on roadmaps

• Proven ability to influence finance transformation, architecture, and product roadmaps

• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with experience working directly with business and technology leaders

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Finance, Accounting, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Pulled from the full job description

• Tuition reimbursement
• Health insurance
• Adoption assistance
• 401(k) 6% Match

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers' expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose. When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That's why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers. Lead the future of finance technology at GEICO GEICO is transforming a traditional IT organization into a modern, engineering-driven technology company-and we're looking for a Workday Financials Senior Solution Architect to help lead that journey. In this role, you'll be the functional architect for Workday Financials-owning end-to-end solution design across core Financials and Spend Management. You'll partner with Finance leaders, product managers, and engineers to translate business needs into secure, scalable, and supportable Workday configurations, integrations, and reporting-while helping shape a culture of engineering excellence, psychological safety, and continuous improvement. This is a high-impact opportunity for a senior leader who thrives at the intersection of finance, technology, and enterprise architecture., Great Company: At GEICO, we help our customers through life's twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we're constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs. We're an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers' expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you'll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people's lives. Great Careers: We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career - and your potential - in mind. You'll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels. Great Culture: We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose. As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.