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# Workday Financials Reporting Lead

- **Company:** Guidehouse Inc.
- **Location:** Chicago, IL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $98,000 - $163,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Analysis, Information Systems, Microsoft Office, Prism (Software), Regression Testing, OneStream, Systems Integration, Enterprise Data Management, Workday Training, Workday Financials, Workday HCM, Workday Security, Sap Business Objects, Information Technology, Data Analytics, Workday Reporting, Workday, BIRT Reporting, Custom Reports
- **Published:** November 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=2cb528797e461045

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, Business Administration, Data Analytics, Computer Science, or a related field. 4+ years relevant experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree.
 * Significant experience (6+ years) with enterprise financial reporting, including hands-on experience with Workday Financial Management reporting.
 * Demonstrated experience designing and developing complex Workday reports, calculated fields, financial statements, dashboards, and analytics.
 * Strong understanding of Workday business objects, data sources, report types, report security, worktags, companies, hierarchies, and financial dimensions.
 * Working knowledge of accounting and financial processes, with the ability to analyze and reconcile financial data.
 * Experience leading reporting requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, documentation, and production support.
 * Experience establishing or operating reporting governance, intake, prioritization, change-control, and lifecycle-management processes.
 * Ability to troubleshoot reporting and data issues and coordinate resolution across functional, technical, security, integration, and data teams.
 * Strong stakeholder-management skills and the ability to lead a reporting workstream while remaining hands-on with report development and problem solving.
 * Strong analytical, communication, documentation, training, and organizational skills.

What Would Be Nice To Have:

 * Workday certification or Workday Pro credentials in Reporting, Financial Management, Financial Accounting, Prism Analytics, Accounting Center, Security, or related areas.
 * Experience supporting a full-cycle Workday Financials implementation and transitioning into post-production ownership.
 * Experience with Prism Analytics, Worksheets, Discovery Boards, Accounting Center, Reporting-as-a-Service, or Workday Report Designer/BIRT and Office Connect.
 * Experience integrating Workday reporting with enterprise data platforms, BI tools, or EPM solutions such as OneStream.
 * Experience supporting Workday Financials in a complex professional-services or project-based organization.
 * Experience working in a SOX-controlled or audit-sensitive environment.

## Description

* Work with the Workday Financials Reporting Lead and project subject matter expert to develop and configure reports that support Guidehouse Financial Operations.
 * Partner with Finance, Accounting, IT, Data, Security, Integrations, and implementation teams to define, prioritize, and deliver reporting requirements.
 * Maintain and rationalize the reporting inventory, identifying reports to retain, replace, consolidate, defer, or retire.
 * Evaluate Workday-delivered reporting capabilities before developing custom solutions.
 * Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain Workday Financials reports, financial statements; calculated fields; dashboards and analytics; and scheduled or distributed reports.
 * Apply Workday business objects, data sources, worktags, hierarchies, ledgers, and financial dimensions to create accurate and supportable reporting solutions.
 * Establish standards for report design, naming, documentation, testing, security, deployment, and lifecycle management in conjunction with Workday HCM team.
 * Lead report testing and reconciliation to confirm accuracy, completeness, and consistency with financial statements, source systems, and downstream reporting platforms.
 * Coordinate report security and access with Workday Security, Finance, and data owners.
 * Support reporting cutover, go-live, hypercare, documentation, training, and knowledge transfer.
 * After go-live, own intake, prioritization, development, and delivery of reporting enhancements and production-support requests.
 * Assess Workday releases for reporting impacts and coordinate regression testing of critical reports.
 * Monitor report performance, usage, data quality, and supportability; identify opportunities to simplify, consolidate, or retire reporting assets.
 * Support audit, SOX, change-control, and reporting-governance requirements.
 * Partner with enterprise data, analytics, and EPM teams to determine when requirements should be fulfilled outside Workday.
 * Provide expertise and leadership for adjacent capabilities such as Prism Analytics, Worksheets, Discovery Boards and dashboards, Accounting Center reporting, integrations, and downstream EPM reporting.