Financial Systems Analyst IV - Workday Core Financials

The leader in Core Financials, Payables & Cash owns the integrity, execution, and continuous improvement of core financial processes within Workday Financials, including general ledger, close, payables, and cash management. This role ensures financial data accuracy and reliable reporting by governing system configuration, supporting financial close, and overseeing key integrations. The position partners closely with Accounting, Finance, Treasury, Procurement, and IT to enable consistent financial operations, support audit requirements, and drive process standardization across the organization.

Leads core financial system processes

• Oversees general ledger, journal processing, payables, and cash functions within Workday
• Establishes and maintains system configurations supporting financial processes and controls
• Ensures alignment between financial processes and system design

Ensures effective financial close execution and data accuracy

• Manages close calendar, dependencies, and system readiness for period close
• Monitors financial processing to ensure completeness and accuracy of results
• Resolves issues impacting close timelines, including system or process disruptions

Manages system enhancements and integrations

• Maintains enhancement roadmap and prioritizes delivery to improve efficiency, accuracy, and scalability of financial processes
• Identifies and evaluates new Workday functionality and features that support evolving finance needs
• Seeks opportunities to streamline workflows and reduce manual effort

Maintains financial controls, compliance, and audit readiness

• Supports internal controls and audit requirements related to financial systems
• Maintains documentation of processes, configurations, and control points
• Ensures adherence to financial governance and regulatory standards

Drives change management and adoption

• Establishes process standards and promotes consistent system usage
• Partners with Finance, Accounting, and IT to enable and adopt new system capabilities
• Supports testing, rollout, and adoption of new features to ensure effective implementation, Latitude on decision-making authority for more complex projects within professional area including providing direction of team members on how to attain unit goals.

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of work experience beyond degree

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years Workday and/or Health Payer Financial Reporting Management experience

This position is an Office role, which requires an employee to work onsite, on average, 3 days per week. We are open to candidates located near one of the following office locations: Minnetonka, MN, or Madison, WI.

The full salary grade for this position is $100,300 - $172,000. While the full salary grade is provided, the typical hiring salary range for this role is expected to be between $100,300 - $150,465. Annual salary range placement will depend on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, education, work experience, applicable certifications and/or licensure, the position’s scope and responsibility, internal pay equity and external market salary data. In addition to compensation, Medica offers a generous total rewards package that includes competitive medical, dental, vision, PTO, Holidays, paid volunteer time off, 401K contributions, caregiver services and many other benefits to support our employees.

Medica is a nonprofit health plan with more than a million members that serves communities in Minnesota, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Missouri, and beyond. We deliver personalized health care experiences and partner closely with providers to ensure members are genuinely cared for.

We’re a team that owns our work with accountability, makes data-driven decisions, embraces continuous learning, and celebrates collaboration - because success is a team sport. It’s our mission to be there in the moments that matter most for our members and employees. Join us in creating a community of connected care, where coordinated, quality service is the norm and every member feels valued.