Workday Financials Senior Consultant

NAGA SURESH

Workday Senior Consultant

Greater Boston, USA 978-***-**** ************@*****.*** US Citizen

PROFILE

Workday Financials Consultant with 8+ years of Workday experience, including 5+ years specializing in Workday Financials managing Core Financials, R2R, P2P, and SCM modules. Experienced in full lifecycle implementations and post-go-live support spanning finance process optimization, Procurement, Inventory Management, Supplier Accounts, Strategic Sourcing, and Contract Lifecycle Management. Strong Financials background enabling end-to-end enterprise transformation, with a proven ability to support global stakeholders, improve processes, and ensure compliance with financial controls and audit requirements.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Workday Core Finance

ServiceNow, Jira, Confluence, HP ALM

Workday Record to Report, Procure to Pay, Supply Chain Management

Workday Integrations

Workday Core HCM

Regression Testing

Workday security, SOX audits, Segregation of Duties (SoD) and UAR

Workday Inbound and Outbound EIBs

Change Management

User Acceptance Testing

Workday Business Process Framework

SAP Supply Chain and Logistics Modules

Custom Reports and Dashboards

EDUCATION

Master's in Industrial Engineering, Kansas State University Dec 2005

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Workday Finance Consultant — Regeneron Feb 2024 – Current New York

Act as SME for Workday Financials, implementing and supporting R2R, P2P, and SCM modules.

Gather and translate business requirements into system configurations.

Drive process improvements and automation initiatives.

Design and maintain complex configurations for organizations including cost centers, intercompany billing, and allocations.

Manage Workday security roles and ensure SoD compliance across user-related security roles.

Partner with Workday / Ask an Expert to resolve configuration issues.

Configured Supplier Accounts, Purchase Order, Accounts Payable, Expense, Business Assets, Customer Accounts, Billing, Revenue, and General Ledger.

Experienced in Financial business processes and sub-processes including Customer, Customer Contract, Change Customer Contract, and Customer Invoice.

Support Workday release management — evaluating and adopting feature releases, running regression testing, and coordinating impact assessments and stakeholder communications.

Evaluate AI features for reconciliation, anomaly detection, and forecasting to support client finance objectives.

Built numerous EIBs to load data into Workday across multiple modules.

Workday Finance Consultant — Uber Technologies Sep 2022 – Dec 2023 California

Delivered Workday Core Financials implementation and support.

Configured business processes and validation rules.

Supported data migration, mapping, and reconciliation processes.

Played a key role in SIT and UAT cycles as part of the implementation.

Created custom tags, fiscal years, ledger periods, account posting rule sets, recurring journal templates, and supplier invoices and adjustments.

Performed period-end activities including allocation groups/sets, translations, and elimination rules.

Built several inbound integrations for data loading.

Delivered a range of financial reporting solutions.

Workday Finance Consultant — Genesys Dec 2020 – Aug 2022 California

Designed and maintained the Financial Data Model (FDM), including work tags, ledger accounts, and account posting rule sets to support multi-dimensional reporting.

Configured multi-book accounting to support parallel GAAP, statutory, and tax reporting requirements.

Set up intercompany elimination rules and consolidated reporting across multiple company hierarchies.

Configured Spend Authorization, Procurement Card, and Expense Management business processes.

Streamlined supplier onboarding and payment cycles through Supplier Accounts and Accounts Payable configuration.

Automated recurring journal entries and period-close tasks to reduce manual close time.

Supported SOX audit readiness by documenting security role matrices and validating segregation-of-duties (SoD) controls.

Built composite, matrix, and trended financial reports to support month-end close and executive reporting.

Designed calculated fields and custom KPIs to power financial dashboards for finance leadership.

Delivered ad hoc and recurring financial reports (AP aging, GL detail, budget vs. actuals) to support stakeholder decision-making.

Built variance and trend analysis reports to support budgeting and forecasting cycles.

Workday Financial Reporting Consultant — J&J May 2018 – Nov 2020 New Jersey

Designed and built advanced, matrix, trended, and composite reports to support financial close, budgeting, and executive reporting needs.

Created calculated fields, custom fields, and business objects to extend standard financial data structures for reporting purposes.

Developed drill-down and matrix reports enabling finance teams to analyze GL activity, AP/AR aging, and budget vs. actuals at multiple levels of granularity.

Leveraged Workday Prism Analytics to blend financial data with external/operational datasets, enabling advanced cross-functional analytics and dashboarding.

Designed finance dashboards providing real-time visibility into key metrics (spend, revenue, budget variance) for leadership and FP&A teams, with worklet and security access aligned to role.

Gathered reporting requirements from finance, accounting, and FP&A stakeholders and translated them into scalable Workday report designs through design workshops.

Audited and rationalized a legacy report inventory, retiring redundant reports and standardizing naming and security conventions for governance.

Optimized report performance by refining data sources, filters, and calculated field logic across large transactional datasets.

Led UAT and supported regression testing for new/modified reports during Workday releases, validating logic against source financial data.

Partnered with auditors and controllers to ensure reports met audit and compliance documentation standards and maintained a report catalog for knowledge transfer.

Senior SAP Supply Chain & Logistics Consultant Mar 2006 – Apr 2018

Worked as a Senior SAP Consultant in SAP Supply Chain & Logistics modules for various clients across Pharma, Medical Device, Manufacturing, and Apparel industries.

Worked on multiple end-to-end implementations for SAP Supply Chain and Logistics modules.

Strong expertise in gathering business requirements, conducting GAP analysis, user training, testing, and documentation.

Some of the SAP Supply Chain experience include:

Configured and managed Supplier Contracts (Outline Agreements) including Contract Release Orders, value/quantity contracts, and scheduling agreements.

Set up contract pricing conditions, validity periods, and release strategies to enforce approval and compliance controls.

Managed vendor master data, source lists, and quota arrangements to govern supplier assignment and contract compliance.

Monitored contract consumption and release order tracking to ensure spending stayed within negotiated contract limits.

Partnered with procurement and sourcing teams to structure long-term supplier agreements and renegotiate terms based on spend analysis.

Configured Purchase Requisition and Purchase Order processes with contract referencing to ensure procurement complied with pre-negotiated supplier terms.

Supported vendor evaluation and score carding processes to assess supplier performance against contract SLAs.

Led Goods Receipt and Invoice Verification (3-way match) configuration to validate deliveries and billing against contract terms.

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