Workday Financials Technical Lead (R2R/EIB)

Vasanthi Sekar

***** ******* ***** ***, *****, VA 20105

703-***-****

*********@*****.***

SKILLS SUMMARY

Lead Workday Financials Developer and Technical Lead with 15+ years of experience delivering enterprise financial systems and technology solutions within Fortune 500 financial services organizations. Deep expertise in Workday Financials, Record-to-Report (R2R), General Ledger, Accounting Posting Rules, Financial Reporting, Workday Studio, EIB, security, custom validations, and enterprise integrations. Proven success leading technical delivery, complex financial integrations, Workday releases, and production support in highly regulated environments.

CERTIFICATIONS

Workday Pro Financials, Workday Pro Record-to-Report, Workday Pro Prism Analytics EXPERIENCE

Fannie Mae, Reston, VA 05/2021-till date

• Lead technical design, implementation, integration, and production support for enterprise Workday Financials and HCM modules.

• Responsible for the configurations - Core Worktags, Accounting Posting Rules, Custom validations, Business processes.

• Design and implemented enterprise integrations using Workday Studio, EIB, web services, REST/SOAP APIs, and related integration technologies.

• Implemented complex Workiva Disclosure integrations from Workday supporting core financial reporting, including Cash Flow, 10-K, and 10-Q reports.

• Lead Workday semiannual release impact assessment, regression testing, deployment planning, and production implementation.

• Automated manual processes in the Allocations. Auto calculation of Allocation statistics.

• Supported GL day to day activities such as period close, inbound/outbound integrations and financial reports. (trial balance, Journal activities etc.)

• Selected participant in Fannie Mae FinTech Innovation Programs (2023 and 2024).

Notable Achievements:

• Created special pattern for Journal Boomerang - Outbound EIB with Connector. This helped the entire team to simplify 15+ integrations.

• Automated manual processes in the Benefits Accounting. Used ChatGPT for code generation. (Custom report output into workable XSLT to hook up to integration) FINRA.org Rockville, MD 03/2020-12/2020

Billing Consultant-Corporate Systems

• FINRA implemented Workday Financials and HCM in 2020.

• Helped Revenue Management team to develop Workday Integrations. (Customer Invoices, Customer payments and Refunds)

• Implemented Agile process for intake and prioritization of the Revenue management work. (Daily Scrum, Sprint planning, JIRA Dashboards, Test Metrics) NASDAQ Inc. Rockville, MD 1/2006- 12/2019

ERP Solution Architect – Global Technology (4/2014 –12/2019)

• Responsible for the design, development, maintenance and production support for Nasdaq’s custom Billing system, Market Data Reporting Application, Electronic Invoice Portal. 60% of the Nasdaq Revenue is billed through the custom billing system.

• Implemented Agile technologies for the above projects. (JIRA management, sprint meetings, stakeholder updates).

• Responsible for Billing interface with Workday Financials. Led the team responsible for WD inbound and outbound integrations related to Customer accounts module.

• Responsible for VERTEX Sales tax implementation for the Workday Billing module.

• Responsible for DTCC/NSCC Payment interface with Workday Financials. 25% of Nasdaq’s total revenue is collected through the NSCC process.

• Responsible for the overall technical architecture of the Billing System. The billing system collects data from various streams (40+) and rating algorithms are applied on a daily basis.

• Responsible for creating, updating and monitoring internal processes that ensure that NASDAQ’s financial applications are compliant with the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) legislation.

Senior Specialist (11/2009 – 3/2014)

• Single handedly developed an Electronic Invoice Presentment system for all NASDAQ customers.

• Single handedly developed Market Data Reporting application for Data Products team.

• Introduced single sign-on and multi-factor authentication on multiple NASDAQ websites.

• Upgraded NASDAQ Billing System to .NET 4.5 Framework. Designed Entity framework for all the modules inside the application.

• Implemented Cognos for Invoice layouts and business analytics.

• Managed System Rollout and Deployments.

Consultant (1/2006 – 10/2009)

• Responsible for the design, development, maintenance and production support for Nasdaq Listing Services website.

• Responsible for PeopleSoft – Cognos Conversion Project. OTHER CERTIFICATIONS & TRAINING

PMP, PSM, Cognos, Oracle, AWS (Developer & Solution Architect), Microsoft .NET, Consensys Blockchain.

EDUCATION

P.S.G College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India Master of Engineering (Control Systems

1996

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