Financial Systems Architect

Join a brand-new Systems team at the moment of its founding as a Financial Systems Architect specializing in Workday Financials. You will own the configuration, optimization, and support of Workday and the integrations around it, playing a central role in stabilizing a fresh go-live and growing into the Finance systems SME who drives module expansions, new integrations, and continuous improvement across the landscape.

What you'll do

• Configure, maintain, and continuously improve the Workday Financials backbone of end-to-end finance processes: record-to-report, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, and bank connectivity
• Design and manage business process configurations, security roles, and domain policies in alignment with finance and audit requirements
• Build and maintain the custom reports, dashboards, and calculated fields that Finance and leadership rely on
• Design and manage integrations across the systems landscape: order-to-cash from Stripe and HubSpot, procure-to-pay from Pleo, tax and e-invoicing with Avalara, bank connectivity and archiving
• Recommend in which system a problem should be solved to keep processes simple end-to-end and produce clean data
• Lead system testing for configuration changes, bi-annual Workday releases, and new feature adoptions
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to gather requirements and translate business needs into system solutions
• Provide Tier 2/3 support for Workday Financials issues and implement lasting fixes

What you'll need

• Minimum 2 years of hands-on Workday Financials configuration experience across core modules (GL, AP, AR)
• Experience with the Workday business process framework and security configuration
• Strong Workday reporting skills including custom reports and calculated fields
• Experience connecting SaaS business systems: APIs, integration patterns, and clean data flows between tools
• Understanding of core accounting concepts (chart of accounts, period close, reconciliations)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a structured approach to troubleshooting
• Excellent communication skills to translate technical concepts for finance audiences and vice versa

Nice to have

• Proficiency in German
• Workday Pro certification in Financials or adjacent modules
• Prior involvement in a full Workday implementation or re-implementation
• Accounting degree, CPA, or equivalent finance qualification
• Familiarity with SOX compliance and internal controls in a Workday context

What they offer

• 30 paid vacation days, AMBOSS holiday, and personal purpose day
• Daily healthy breakfast and lunch by in-house chef at Berlin HQ
• AMBOSS daycare and ability to work remotely from other office spaces in Cologne, Sardinia, and Cape Town