Workday Reporting Developer - Budget & Finance (Remote)

We are seeking an experienced Workday Reporting Developer to support our Budget and Finance operations. In this 100% remote contract role, you will design, build, test, and maintain custom Workday financial reports and dashboards that drive budget development, financial management, variance analysis, and executive decision-making.

You will partner directly with Finance, Budget, and functional stakeholders to translate complex financial questions into accurate, secure, and maintainable Workday reporting solutions.

What You Will Do

• Build & Enhance Financial Reports: Design, develop, and maintain custom reports using Workday Report Writer (Advanced, Matrix, and Composite reports) to support budget-versus-actual analysis, General Ledger reporting, expenditure monitoring, resource allocation, and variance analysis.
• Develop Complex Calculated Fields: Build and troubleshoot multi-layered Calculated Fields, prompts, filters, and custom data source logic to meet specific financial and operational reporting requirements.
• Design Dashboards & Worklets: Create and configure intuitive Workday Dashboards and worklets that give finance leaders and operational teams clear visibility into financial trends and key metrics.
• Validate & Reconcile Financial Data: Perform data quality checks, report reconciliations, and root-cause troubleshooting to resolve discrepancies across financial data sources, Worktags, and the Foundation Data Model (FDM).
• Support Governance, Security & Releases: Maintain report documentation (data sources, calculation logic, and intended use), validate role-based report security and confidentiality controls, and support regression testing during Workday release cycles.
• Collaborate with Stakeholders: Work closely with budget and finance users to gather requirements, demonstrate new reporting tools, and provide clear guidance on report usage.

• Proven hands-on experience as a Workday Report Writer / Reporting Developer with a strong focus on Workday Financial Management.
• Demonstrated expertise building custom Advanced, Matrix, and Composite reports from scratch.
• Strong proficiency creating complex Calculated Fields (e.g., Evaluate Expression, Lookup Related Value, Extract Single/Multi-Instance, Date and Text functions).
• Hands-on experience configuring custom Workday Dashboards, worklets, prompts, and filters.
• Solid understanding of core financial concepts and Workday Financials structures, including the Foundation Data Model (FDM), Worktags (Cost Center, Fund, Program, Grant, Spend/Revenue Categories), General Ledger, and budget-to-actuals reporting.
• Experience with report governance, Workday security groups/sharing controls, UAT, and production troubleshooting.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work directly with finance stakeholders to gather requirements and explain technical report logic in clear business terms.

Preferred Qualifications

• Active Workday Pro Reporting or Workday Pro Prism Analytics certification.
• Experience with grants management, fund accounting, or sponsored-research financial reporting.
• Familiarity with Workday Adaptive Planning or Prism Analytics.