Financial Management
Cloud ERP that’s built to adapt.
A new day for finance.
Bring your accounting, consolidation, procurement, projects, reporting, and analytics into one financial management system. Cloud ERP software from Workday gives you unparalleled insight and a state-of-the-art foundation for financial efficiency and control. The result? More time to tackle your biggest challenges, like driving strategy and finding the best paths to profitability.
Count on growth, not costs.
Accounting and finance.
Go beyond the basics of accounting. Workday gives you real-time business insight and complete control.
- Better understand the numbers with actionable, dimensional reports.
- Make timely decisions with in-memory accounting and analytics.
- Manage all activity with embedded, flexible business processes.
- Configure changes and immediately see them reflected across Workday.
- Support global operations with multientity, multibook, and multicurrency capabilities.
Audit and internal controls.
Increase efficiency and reduce the cost of audits. Workday was created post-Sarbanes-Oxley, so audit and internal controls are built into the system.
- Use undefeatable transaction records with complete audit trails.
- Easily aggregate financial and operational records for audits.
- Reduce cost and maintenance complexity with built-in security controls.
- Use live data to make better business decisions.
Global foundation.
Seamlessly run your multinational business with a single accounting and finance system.
- Use one system for finance, HCM, planning, and analytics across geographies.
- Make confident decisions with a single view of consolidated financial results.
- Leverage prebuilt content and configurable frameworks to meet local requirements.
- Maintain compliance with statutory reports, certifications, and updates for new accounting standards.
Reporting and analytics.
Effectively support the business with contextual, actionable financial reporting.
- Equip managers with financial information to help them make more informed decisions.
- Know the current state of your business at all times.
- Report across any and all aspects of your business.
- Create management reports using the same transactional data as financial statements.
Consolidate and close.
Streamline your consolidation and reporting process to close faster.
- Bring data in from external accounting systems with a prepackaged integration.
- Perform allocations, intercompany eliminations, and currency translations.
- Produce consolidated financial statements and reports that let you drill down.
Revenue management.
Manage the entire contract-to-cash lifecycle and effortlessly adapt to changing regulations with a single finance system.
- Speed up cash flow while minimizing errors in financial reporting.
- Easily shift to new revenue recognition standards and reduce audit costs.
- Automate billing processes for different types of products and services.
- Improve forecasting with real-time visibility into revenue streams.
- Integrate easily with third-party contract management systems.
Accounting center.
Turn business events into accounting entries and deliver rich insight to your teams.
- Rapidly transform all business events using a complete end-to-end process.
- Audit transaction flows at every step to meet regulatory and audit requirements.
- Give accountants full visibility into rules and logic for setup and maintenance.
- Distribute operational insights to key stakeholders.
Financial planning.
Plan collaboratively and continuously—so you and your teams can better manage the business.
- Empower business users to confidently create all types of planning models, including expense, capital, and revenue.
Fine-tune rolling forecasts in real time with integrated driver-based scenarios.
Connect your planning data to Microsoft® Excel, PowerPoint, and Word to easily update reports.
Manage change, model business outcomes, analyze variances, and course-correct—all at the pace your business demands.
Enrich your planning cycles by automating the integration of data from any source system.
Expenses.
Easily manage travel and entertainment expenses and make expense reporting a snap.
- Capture receipts and submit expense reports on any device.
- Ensure rapid adoption with a consumer-like experience on desktop and mobile.
- Reduce administrative work by using employee data in Workday Human Capital Management.
- Automate expense management processes while ensuring control.
- Gain real-time visibility into employee spend with multidimensional analytics.
Procurement.
Streamline all aspects of indirect procurement to improve operational efficiency and control.
- Create and submit requisitions for goods and services with a consumer-like experience.
- Manage the RFQ process and compare supplier bids.
- Enable suppliers to self-register and maintain their own data, like address and banking instructions.
- Configure approval workflows and spend authorizations for better control.
- Understand spending trends and their impact on the organization.
Inventory.
Get a fresh approach to traditional materials management with complete visibility across your internal supply chain.
- Receive and track items under lot and/or serial control.
- Define and place inventory in locations based on usage type.
- Physically count inventory and record adjustments from your mobile device.
- Replenish stock automatically and track the delivery of goods to fulfillment.
- View inventory cost by spend category to understand what’s being consumed.
Projects.
Manage your projects and your talent in a single system, resulting in empowered teams, satisfied clients, and increased profitability.
- Easily view key project details, including budget, forecast and plan, resource demand, utilization, project status, and more.
- Automate billing and revenue recognition to streamline the contract-to-cash cycle.
- Access current project data, expense reports, and time entry on any device.
- Support the complete project lifecycle from resource assignment to billing.
Grants management.
Handle the most complex grants requirements—all while gaining visibility and control into grant activity.
- Gain insight into grant activity with rich, multidimensional reports.
- Improve compliance with reporting requirements by ensuring all transactions are accurately tracked.
- Manage grant proposals and budgets centrally and report on awards against proposals.
- Automate the full post-award process to improve accuracy, visibility, and compliance.