Enterprise Systems Analyst, Finance

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative was founded in 2015 by Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg to harness the power of technology to pursue some of society’s most ambitious goals — from curing or preventing all disease to transforming how students learn. At CZI, you’ll join a deeply collaborative, mission-driven community where your work helps drive breakthroughs across our flagship nonprofit organizations, Biohub and Learning Commons. Whether enabling scientific breakthroughs via open science and AI-powered biology or strengthening the tools teachers and students rely on every day, your contributions help turn bold ideas into real-world impact. Our teams operate at the intersection of innovation and scale, building the infrastructure, partnerships, and capabilities that allow scientists, educators, and innovators to tackle some of the most complex challenges of our time — and to do so with urgency, integrity, and optimism. The Team The Operations team is a key partner in enabling Biohub’ s pioneering work to combine frontier AI with frontier biology to solve disease and Learning Commons ’ mission to build AI infrastructure that aligns how students learn with the tools that shape their learning experiences. Operations includes our Central Tech, Finance, Marketing & Communications, People, and Real Estate / Workplace / Events / Facilities / Security (REWFS) teams. Together, these teams create the systems, programs, and experiences that empower our partners and colleagues across Biohub and Learning Commons to drive impact. This work requires strategic and operational rigor, creativity, and deep collaboration. Whether designing world-class employee experiences, safeguarding data and infrastructure, or shaping how we communicate our impact, Operations plays a critical role in helping deliver meaningful change at scale. As a Enterprise Systems Analyst, Finance on the People & Finance Systems Team, you will play a key role in streamlining, securing, and optimizing our Projects and Customer Accounts management processes through the Workday platform. You will work closely with the Procurement, Finance and Accounting Operations teams and be responsible for gathering, analyzing, and documenting business requirements, translating requirements into technical specifications, ensuring compliance with IT security standards, and implementing solutions. The Opportunity We believe that our teams are most effective when in sync and learning from each other on a daily basis. We enable our teams to achieve their goals faster and more securely. We leverage technology to automate manual processes, constantly innovate to optimize operations, provide first-class support, and build solutions to enable the scale and execution of our business partners' strategies and initiatives. Reporting to the Finance Systems Lead , this role will play a key role in streamlining, securing, and optimizing our Projects and Customer Accounts management processes through the Workday platform. You will work closely with the Procurement, Finance and Accounting Operations teams and be responsible for gathering, analyzing, and documenting business requirements, translating requirements into technical specifications, ensuring compliance with IT security standards, and implementing solutions. What You'll Do Gather and analyze business requirements: Partner with Procurement, Finance, Accounting Operations, and other stakeholders to understand business needs, pain points, and desired outcomes. Document and prioritize requirements: Develop clear documentation, including business requirements, user stories, and use cases. Evaluate solutions: Translate business needs into technical specifications and scalable solutions. Lead or contribute to the design and integration Workday functionality, evaluating tools, performing risk assessments, and recommending optimal approaches, including configurations and enhancements. Implement solutions: Develop, test, and deploy solutions, including integr