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Workday Financial Management

A fresh approach to financial management.

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Workday Financial Management Reviews

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  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
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  • Likelihood to recommend8.09/10

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Workday does an amazing job with a great interface allowing the user to easily learn the system while not sacrificing the work being done. Easy, affordable, maintainable.
Overall experience with Workday Financial Management has been fantastic. Great capabilities that can integrate very well with other Workday modules.
I love how user friendly it is. You can find anything and everything with ease.
Hard to learn at first- errors pop up at times.
My overall experience with Workday is sometimes frustrating since I cannot get the reports I need to do my job.
Employees will accept having to use Workday to manage their taxes, etc. I'm not aware of an alternative for large companies. It will, however, be a perpetual pain point for employees.
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Nick C.

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Education Management, 201-500 employees

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Workday's Financial Solution

Reviewed 2 years ago

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Nick C.: My name is Nick. I am an IT security specialist. I work in higher education and I give Workday...

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Information Technology and Services, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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Best cloud based financial management system

Reviewed a year ago
Pros

Easy to develop reports and less coding for developing integrations. User Interface is very good and dashboards are easy to develop and deploy

Cons

It won't allow much customization on the existing pages.

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Accounting, 5,001-10,000 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Workday Financials Review

Reviewed 3 years ago

Pretty good, however the points addressed as dislikes should be addressed as it would make workday more robust

Pros

What I like is the reporting options available in the financials model. It allows us to reconcile grant spending within the award management team along with the depts as all data points are in Workday. Users with the report Writer role are able to construct their own reports and schedule output for specific users as needed. Everything from award creation to sponsor billing can be done from one system.

Cons

There are constraints regarding billing for sponsors on grants for expenses posting outside of award line dates if the company is using a different system for timekeeping. There are also no award or grant compliance checks in workday leaving compliance auditing at risk

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Rachel S.

Insurance, 5,001-10,000 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend4/10

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Workday Review

Reviewed 4 years ago

I use workday to keep track of all my important company information. Overall I would say it's a good platform, but it needs some updating to make it more user friendly. Epically the time and absence widgets. I'm not a huge fan of how this program functions.

Pros

I like being able to access my personal information, my performance, my time, my benefits, etc. all in one location.

Cons

I don't like how difficult it is to track my time. We have a lock out every week and it is difficult to keep track of the hours I work. I usually have to write them down on a sticky note and transfer them back in once the lock out is over. Very inconvenient. I also don't like how I have to go to a different screen to include my absences like PTO or Maternity leave. It's been somewhat of a mess trying to keep track of al my hours and benefits.

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Claudia L.

Computer Software, self-employed

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Workday Financial Management Review

Reviewed 3 months ago

Workday Financial Management integrates seamlessly with other Workday products, such as HCM and PPM. The software has great reporting capabilities. In addition, the software offers a range of security and compliance features in terms of data encryption and two-factor authentication, which help to provide greater security for sensitive information about your business operations.

Pros

The software is intuitive to use and I was able to create reports easily once I understand how the system works.

Cons

There is a learning curve to using the software when creating hierarchies for your chart of accounts before you can effectively create useful reports.

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Internet, 5,001-10,000 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend7/10

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Great functionality for better price

Reviewed a year ago
Pros

WFM is definitely more affordable than any of the competitors, especially Hyperion who has astronomical prices for similar functionality. We use WFM primarily for accounting and payroll. It has a user friendly interface, set up was somewhat of a breeze. I like the fact that it's a cloud system, makes everything easier.

Cons

Their help center is lacking. Also for people who are not as tech savvy, it's was surprisingly challenging to find user guides and we had to contact WFM support for that, when they should have been accessible in the first place.

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Sports, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Workday for Office Life

Reviewed 3 years ago

We love workday. It is so simple and really streamlines the work process between employees and employers.

Pros

I enjoy that all of our employees use workday and it makes it very simple to approve their time, as opposed to having to check time cards or check into another account. You can do everything from Workday, enter your time, ask for time off, track employees time, send employee messages, check your pay stubs, see your benefits, and lots more.

Cons

I don' think there are really any cons! It is very simple to use, and is easy to access from a phone as well.

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Aurea B.

Hospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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WD User

Reviewed 10 months ago

Best AP system for the amount of invoices ever...we process thousands of invoices and adjustments every day and has never disappointed me.

Pros

Processing my invoices is easy and finding old files is a breeze. I process invoices, adjustments (credits and debits), and there is no issues. Its easy to process those as it kept all the information from the supplier to easy the processing. The reporting and research its very easy with an array of ways to find what I'm looking for.

Cons

Nothing at all. Very user friendly, easy to learn and so "jointed" with all aspects of the AP. Very happy my employer has this program.

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Information Technology and Services, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Workday is designed to help you on a daily basis!

Reviewed 2 years ago
Pros

Workday user interface design is super friendly. As the user with the rights for approving expenses to my cost center, I have no complaints. The process is straight forward, smooth, and the software feels robust and without any flaws.

Cons

The 'inbox' or 'archive' section can be confusing, but aside from that, Workday is top-notch regarding software for Financial Management and much more!

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Tiffany Y.

Accounting, 5,001-10,000 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend7/10

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Your usual financial software

Reviewed 3 years ago

Okay overall, don’t really see anything outstanding compared to other financial softwares

Pros

Allows user to save particular reports for easy access in the future, especially great if you need recurring reports.

Cons

There should be some sort of a filter feature. I find it troublesome when looking up vendor in the search bar, but unable to refine by cost center or BU without going through pulling the ledger entries.

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Tiffany L.

Hospital & Health Care, 5,001-10,000 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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AP Specialist

Reviewed 8 months ago

It is a good program suitable for high volume invoice processing.

Pros

I enjoy the responsiveness of the program, when changes are made to invoices, it is instantaneous.

Cons

Occasionally it can be hard to search for reports/tasks by name.

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Higher Education, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend4/10

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Slow and Not User Friendly

Reviewed a year ago

Accessing the specific reports is difficult as the user is required to remember several abbreviated name strings (fin acc manage...). When finally accessing the correct report, Workday is slow to load the report and a pop-up typically appears asking if the user would like to be notified when the report is available.

Pros

Some of the budget management reports allow users to drill down into specific line items/ spend categories. This feature is great for a quick refresher of recent expenses.

Cons

There are too many separate reports acting as silos. This often makes it difficult to see the full financial picture without multiple tabs or Excel downloads.

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Automotive, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend7/10

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User friendly interface

Reviewed 5 years ago

Workday Financials gave us much needed reporting capabilities that we weren't getting from other software. The fact that it integrates with our HRM system makes it easier to drill into certain data sets. Adding attachments to invoices and journal entries has essentially turned us into a paperless office.

Pros

Workday Financials is user friendly and has some great reporting capabilities. The interface looks fresh and it's easy to navigate. Each new release adds additional utility. The Workday Community is a great tool to post ideas and get real world advice from other companies experiencing the same issues.

Cons

Workday runs slow sometimes, especially on days when we're loading payroll and there's a lot of data going through the system. Sometimes Workday gives cryptic and seemingly random error messages.

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Alfonso P.

Financial Services, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend6/10

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Great Financial Management support for P2P Capabilities

Reviewed 2 years ago

Overall experience with Workday Financial Management has been fantastic. Great capabilities that can integrate very well with other Workday modules.

Pros

Workday Financial Management provides a great P2P capability to organization already working with Workday HCM. This tool provides best-in-class functionalities that support financial and procurement operations.

Cons

The language, terms, jargon are very specific to Workday nomenclature rather than based on industry. Some concepts are quite unique and sometimes unnecessary when compared against a Coupa or other provider.

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Kelli T.

Insurance, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend7/10

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Workaround

Reviewed 6 years ago

When we initially started using this product it was very cumbersome. It improved some of our old processes but then seemed to make other worse. It has either gotten better or we have just gotten use to it. We have also had some issues with invoices getting lost in the system and had to recreate them in order to get them to process. They recently changed the requisition creation and it is not clear what the end user needs to do once they enter a line item. Overall I like the product but I feel it could still be improved. We just started using the HR function this week and so far I like what I see.

Pros

The reporting capabilities and the ability to drill down in functions to get to the info you need.

Cons

Not always user friendly. The error notes are not very helpful in pointing you to the specific line that has an issue.

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Walker E.

Airlines/Aviation, 5,001-10,000 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Most Intuitive Yet

Reviewed 3 years ago

Workday has been the most enjoyable experience in my career. Nobody likes to fiddle around with software that looks outdated and glitchy when they’re dealing with their paycheck.

Pros

This has been the most intuitive software for entering payroll information and altering personal information for payroll as well. We’ve never had an issue with Workday and plan on using it forever!

Cons

The only difficult thing to figure out is how many hours you have for the week. Sometimes when you have holiday hours or vacation hours it’s hard to tell how many hours you actually have for the week without submitting it.

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Minela K.

Insurance, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Best system for the workplace

Reviewed 4 years ago

I keep a track of everything work related on workday. It is my starting and end point

Pros

Workday is all encompassing. From accessing my pay slips to tracking my career and goal development to managing my time, it takes care of everything in one Swift go. Incredibly user friendly

Cons

There are no cons that I have encountered

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Higher Education, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend7/10

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Workday is not for every business

Reviewed 5 years ago

My overall experience with Workday is sometimes frustrating since I cannot get the reports I need to do my job. I work with the filing of 1099s for all the vendors and it's impossible to run reports with the information I need in order to report accurately to the IRS.

Pros

Workday enables businesses to view all their financials in just a few clicks.

Cons

Usually when a report is exported to excel, it's hard to view since the columns contain information that are irrelevant and need to be hidden.

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Gaurav Paras S.

Used daily for 2+ years

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Awesome tool to manage finance in-house

Reviewed 6 years ago
Pros

User-friendly, easy access, secure to end user It's easy to provide weekly, monthly and yearly view for Planning

Cons

Sometimes slow to access Customize reports needs to enhance. Projection reports needs to add for analyzing future trend

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Vanessa M.

Used daily for 1-2 years

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It is a little bit difficult to use at the beginning.

Reviewed 5 years ago
Pros

It has a very simple interface. Reports and features can get customized by ITS on demand. There is an app you can use on your phone with all the working features.

Cons

It contains no tools for project management other than the accounting of available budget, obligations and actuals. Some terms do not reflect the correct accounting, finance, and projext management industries.

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Donny M.

Construction, 5,001-10,000 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Workday is very easy to use

Reviewed a year ago
Pros

Workday makes accounting for you time easy, along with all the other features.

Cons

I just wish we would have used workday sooner.

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Financial Services, self-employed

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Workday Makes Your Workday Easier

Reviewed 4 years ago
Pros

Implementation was easy and adoption of the program happened quicker than normal from other programs.

Cons

Customer Service representatives could be friendlier.

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Rajesh S.

Used daily for 2+ years

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All details at one place and easy to handle

Reviewed 6 years ago
Pros

GUI interface.Easy to use...and user friendly. I am using this from past 2 years and its awsome tool.

Cons

The charts can be improved , taking out the reports is not not so easy and can be improved further.

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Sasha B.

Retail, 5,001-10,000 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend5/10

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Not completely bad, but not user friendly.

Reviewed 3 years ago

I use it mainly to look at my check stubs, but it does that quite well.

Pros

I like that once you figure it out it's simple to use, and make it easy to access your information.

Cons

It's not too user friendly when you first start using it. It definitely takes some getting used to.

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Used weekly for 6-12 months

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Excellent, I can have all the analysis of my management in a single financial management system.

Reviewed 5 years ago

Allows me to register new levels of financial efficiency and business performance with Workday accounting software, I could quickly respond to anomalies as they happen with reports and in-memory accounting, I could manage all activity with configurable business processes. A great benefit is that I have accomplished to change proactively to internal and external changes without IT resources or costly customizations.

Pros

I like most is that it gives me the possibility of having all the analysis of my management in a single financial management system. I find it interesting that it helps me to lead strategic planning and find the best ways for the profitability of my new business.

Cons

I'm practically new using the tool, but I think it would be useful to include the possibility of including the initial data of the company and predict its productivity in the short term.

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Daniel B.

Education Management, 201-500 employees

Used weekly for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Software you can trust

Reviewed a year ago

I really like workday for the ease of use, but also has a excellent interface to navigate all the features it provides with simple clicks.

Pros

Workday does an amazing job with a great interface allowing the user to easily learn the system while not sacrificing the work being done. Easy, affordable, maintainable.

Cons

Requestion procedures a little of a task, but manageable.