Sandeep Nali

Workday Finance Techno-Functional Consultant with 3.7 years of hands-on experience in Workday Financial Management implementation, production support, and continuous enhancements within the manufacturing domain, supporting a global organization across multiple business units and regions. Proficient across General Ledger (GL) / Financial Accounting, Accounts Payable (AP) / Supplier Accounts, Accounts Receivable (AR) / Customer Accounts, Procurement, Expenses, Banking & Settlement, Asset Management / Business Assets, and Revenue Management. Skilled in Workday Business Process configuration, Advanced Reporting, Workday Studio, EIB/Core Connector integrations, Security administration, and stakeholder-facing delivery through full SDLC.

Workday Finance Techno-Functional Consultant - Conin Technologies Private Limited

(2022-10)

Client: UST Global (Manufacturing) Environment: Workday Financials, Procurement, Expenses, Business Assets, Reporting, EIB, Core Connectors, Security

• Managed 50+ tickets per month across incidents, service requests, and enhancement requests, consistently achieving SLA compliance targets with zero critical escalations.
• Conducted root cause analysis (RCA) on recurring production issues and implemented permanent fixes, reducing repeat ticket volumes and improving overall Workday system stability.
• Supported month-end and year-end financial close cycles, ensuring zero critical system failures during close windows across multiple business units and regions.
• Configured and maintained Workday Business Processes across Procurement, Accounts Payable (AP) / Supplier Accounts, Accounts Receivable (AR) / Customer Accounts, Expenses, and General Ledger (GL) / Financial Accounting — including approval chains, condition rules, routing logic, and escalation workflows.
• Managed Banking & Settlement operations including bank account validations, settlement event troubleshooting, and payment processing issue resolution.
• Configured Expense Management workflows covering reimbursement rules, policy validations, and compliance controls.
• Designed and delivered custom Advanced, Matrix, Composite, and Dashboard Reports for finance stakeholders covering budgeting, expense tracking, supplier analysis, and reconciliation.
• Built complex Calculated Fields including Lookup Related Value, Evaluate Expression, Extract Single Instance, Boolean, and date and arithmetic logic to support advanced finance and leadership reporting.
• Optimized high-volume finance reports through calculated field restructuring and data source tuning, reducing average report generation time by 30%.
• Monitored and resolved integration failures across EIB and Core Connector jobs, ensuring uninterrupted data flow between Workday and external financial systems.
• Executed inbound and outbound EIB loads for suppliers, banking data, financial transactions, and organizational updates, maintaining high data accuracy throughout.
• Developed reusable EIB and Core Connector integration templates, reducing configuration time for new integration requests and enabling faster onboarding of additional data feeds.
• Developed Workday Studio integrations to automate data exchange between Workday Financials and external systems, applying XSLT transformations and custom mediation logic to meet complex business requirements.
• Administered Workday Security configurations for finance users including domain security policies, business process security permissions, and role-based access assignments.
• Conducted periodic security audits and access validations to ensure compliance with organizational governance and segregation of duties (SoD) standards.
• Led UAT, SIT, and regression testing for finance enhancements and bi-annual Workday releases; prepared test cases, validation documents, and deployment checklists.

Master of Business Administration (MBA) - Finance - Regional College of Management, Bengaluru North University (2022)