Description
This position serves as a vital link between the Accounting/Finance departments and our Technical teams. This position requires detail oriented and analytic expertise, interpreting complex accounting requirements and converting them into Workday configurations. This position ensures optimization of the Financial Data Model (FDM), develops sophisticated financial reports, and assists in coordinating testing efforts for system updates and enhancements. This position works across a broad spectrum of departments, spanning the comprehensive workday financial, student and human resources platforms, and works closely with the Computing Services department.
Specific Job Duties and Responsibilities:
Reporting and Analytics
- Report Development: Design, build, and maintain custom reports using Workday Report Writer. This includes Advanced, Matrix, and Composite reports to support financial close and audit processes, working closely with Computing Services and Institutional Effectiveness to adhere to campus best practices and standards.
- Calculated Fields: Create and maintain complex calculated fields to manipulate data for specific reporting requirements.
- Dashboards: Configure Workday Dashboards and Scorecards to provide the CFO. Controller, Budget and other teams with real-time financial visibility
- Data Integrity: Work closely with cross functional areas to regularly audit system data to ensure accuracy across the General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), and Accounts Receivable (AR).
System Testing & Quality Assurance
- Release Management: Lead, with Computing Services, the testing strategy for the bi-annual Workday Feature Releases. Review release notes, identify impacts on accounting workflows, and configure new features. Coordinate with internal and external partners
- UAT Coordination: Develop test scenarios and coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with the team to ensure enhancements function as expected before moving to production.
- Regression Testing: Perform regression testing to ensure existing configurations (such as integrations or business processes) are not negatively impacted by new updates.
Functional Support & Configuration
- Research tenant enhancements and unused features to optimize processes.
- Requirements Gathering: Collaborate with the Accounting team and other functional areas to understand obstacles and business requirements; translate these into technical specifications for system changes.
- Business Process Configuration: Coordinate configuration and maintenance of business processes for Financials, Procurement, Expenses, and Assets, ensuring appropriate approval workflows and segregation of duties. Troubleshoot technical errors and oversee Workday tickets as needed.
- Support & Training: Provide support for financial system processes, errors, workorders, communication with Workday on tenant issues.
Cross Functional Responsibilities
- Collaborate with Controller and other Finance Directors, Technical Business Analysts, Senior Institutional Researcher and others as appropriate
- Active in relevant task groups and committees such as Workday Connect, Finance Directors, Change Management Working Group and others as appropriate
Qualifications:
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems or a related field.
- 3 years of experience working with Workday Financial Management (Core Finance, GL, AP, AR, Fixed Assets) or similarly complex ERP/SIS system.
- Technical Skills: Experience in ERP/SIS system report writing. Strong understanding of conditional logic.
- Solid understanding of Accounting Principals (GAAP) and financial close processes. Must understand debits, credits, and how financial statements are constructed.
- Experience translating business needs into system solutions.
- Ability to explain technical constraints to accountants and accounting requirements to developers.
- Problem solving skills: Ability to troubleshoot “why” a report isn’t balancing or “why” a business process is stuck.
- Attention to detail: Precision in dealing with financial data and system configuration.
- Ability to treat others with respect, civility, and courtesy and to work honestly, effectively, and collegially with employees, students, and the community. This includes the ability to use appropriate conflict management skills to effectively manage any disagreement that might arise or to bring the disagreement to management for assistance in productive resolution when the situation requires.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 3 Years of experience working with Workday Financial Management (Core Finance, AP, AR, Fixed Assets, Awards/Grants, Student).
- Experience in Higher Education
- Expertise in Workday Report Writer (Standard, Advanced, Matrix, Composite).
- Workday Pro Certification in Financials or Reporting.
- Familiarity with EIBs (Enterprise Interface Builders) for mass data loads.
- Experience with Adaptive Planning.
- Experience with BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools) for formatting customer-facing documents (e.g., invoices).
- CPA or relevant accounting certification.
Salary and Benefits:
The salary range for this position is $57,400-$72,500. In addition to salary, Adams State University offers a competitive benefits program including medical, dental, vision, disability insurance, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, and retirement savings plans. For detailed benefits information please visit our Human Resources Benefits Page.
How to Apply:
All interested candidates must submit application materials electronically through Adams State University’s Workday application portal.
No other format of application material will be accepted.
Completed applications include the following:
Cover letter
Resume
Unofficial transcripts (official transcripts will be necessary at the time of appointment)
Three professional references, including phone number and email for each
Application deadline has been extended through 8/15/2026, applications will be reviewed as they are received.
The position will remain open until filled. Applications received after the priority deadline may be reviewed at the discretion of the search committee.
Questions about the position may be directed to Heather Heersink at [email protected]
Adams State University is committed to building and expanding the talent of its professional staff and actively seeks qualified applicants who bring unique perspectives, experiences, skills, and attributes that can augment the perspectives of our current faculty and staff and can contribute to serving and preparing our students to engage and thrive in their learning, leadership, and service.
We strive to create a more representative workforce that mirrors the people who study, work, and lead our institution and welcome applications from candidates from all walks of life, especially members of communities who fall within state and federally protected classes such as: women, BIPOC, LGBTQ+ individuals, veterans, and people with disabilities.
We value qualified candidates, with varied language skills, who have a record of successful experience with varied communities and student populations, and who have a deep understanding of and commitment to the unique geographical and historical characteristics of the place we are situated in and the intersecting perspectives that define our university being a low-income, first-generation, and Hispanic-serving, rural anchor university. Therefore, we seek individuals committed to intentionally supporting students and colleagues who possess these characteristics through their teaching, service, and scholarship.
The successful candidate will join a campus that is dedicated to inclusive excellence and acknowledges Adams State’s purpose to foster the educational goals of its students and the well-being of the surrounding community.
Additional information about the university and the academic mission may be found at www.adams.edu/academics/
Disclosures:
In compliance with the Immigration Control Act of 1968 candidates for positions must provide proof of eligibility to work before an offer of employment can be made final.
Adams State University is committed to providing a safe and secure environment for its students, faculty, staff and visitors, and to protecting its funds, property and other assets. Well-informed hiring decisions contribute to this effort. Therefore, Adams State University has adopted a policy on background screening for its prospective, continuing, and returning employees as well as students in certain circumstances. Offers of employment will be contingent upon the completion of an acceptable background check. The information received in response to a background check will be treated as confidential to the extent provided for by law.
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and Part 106 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, including in admission and employment. Inquiries about the application of Title IX and CFR 106 to Adams State University (ASU) may be directed to ASU's Office of Equal Opportunity, Director Ana Guevara, and/or to the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights of the Department of Education. Support resources for sexual misconduct, ASU's sexual misconduct policies, contact information for the Adams State University's Office of Equal Opportunity & Title IX, as well as a detailed procedure for filing a grievance due to discrimination on the basis of sex may be found online at https://www.adams.edu/administration/oeo/reporting-sexual-harassment/. These procedures also describe the University's response to reports and/or complaints of sex discrimination or sexual harassment.
Adams State University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Applications are sought from all qualified persons regardless of race, color, sex, disability, and, as covered by law, veteran status. In addition, University policies prohibit discrimination on the basis of religion, national origin, ancestry, age, sexual orientation including transgender status and gender expression, marital status, and parental status.
