Accounting Specialist

Role Name: Accounting Center ExpertLocation: Toronto 4 days a week on siteDuration: ContractJOB DESCRIPTION:

Role Accounting Center Expert

Core Responsibilities:

Accounting Center WAC Design Operations

Configure Maintain Source Systems Source Transaction Definitions Source Fields Field Mappings and effective dating versioning

Maintain Build Posting Rules Accounting Rules for debit credit derivation including conditional logic multi entity multi currency intercompany and balancing rules

Implement work tag enrichment eg Company Cost Center Project Customer Product Ledger Intercompany using derived fields reference datasets lookup tables and hierarchies

Configure Accounting Date policies document numbering sequence JE grouping reversals suspense clearing accounts and intercompany settlements

Manage Journal Entry JE configuration templates journal sources posting priorities approval routes and period ledger controls

Data Ingestion Pre Ingestion Controls

Design inbound pipelines using Workday Studio Prism with chunking parallelization and retry rollback strategies

Build pre ingestion quality gates schema checks null format validation referential integrity work tags master data idempotency via source keys hashing and duplicate detection

Define source to target mapping specifications payload contracts and version control for breaking non breaking changes

Establish replay backfill mechanisms and partial batch success patterns for resilience

Enrichment Validation Framework

Implement design Maintain Prism based staging and enrichment pipelines for reference joins derived metrics threshold checks FX rates and business rule based transformations

Maintain validation rules across stages

o Structural required fields data types business format rules

o Semantic work tag validity COA alignment effective dates active inactive statuses

o Accounting balanced entries DRCR posting category compatibility period open status

Provide exception handling quarantine queues business friendly error catalogs and self service reprocessing runbooks

Reporting Monitoring Controls

Build Composite Matrix Reports and Prism datasets for

o Load throughput error rates backlog posting latency

o Source vs posted reconciliation counts amounts FX impacts

o Suspense account monitoring and unmatched failed records

Implement observability alerts integration events email Teams notifications and periodic control attestations to support SOX audit

Security Lifecycle Governance

Configure domain security policies role based access and work tag security for WAC objects integrations and datasets

Manage sandbox preview production migrations with deployment plans regression testing and rule version governance

Author technical design docs mapping specs operational runbooks and conduct KT for Finance Accounting Ops