About Me

ZIAD SIDDIQI

KLEREDE L.L.C

Financial Consultant

Senior Consultant with 7+ years of experience across various industries including health care, IT and consulting.
Experience in Implementation of Workday Financial implementation including Customer Accounts, Procurement, Banking and Financial Accounting.
Strong experience with Workday Report Writer – Custom Reporting. (Calculated fields, advanced, matrix and composite)
Worked on Security configuration such as Role based and User Based Security.
Proficient in collecting user and system requirements and translating them into comprehensive system specifications.

Professional Experience

Consultant (Public Consulting Group) Feb 2023 – Sep. 2023

Provided Production support to resolve production related tickets.
Ensured revenue recognition was consistent and set up billing schedules for customer invoicing.
Created customer contracts and generated invoices within workday.
Updated notifications for customer invoice events to ensure emails were being sent to
customers.
Updated customer contact information, encompassing phone numbers, email addresses, and physical addresses to improve database accuracy.
Assisted project managers with workday navigation.
Produced spreadsheets tailored for project managers to enhance organization and facilitate the streamlined relay of invoicing information, thereby improving efficiency.

Senior Financial Consultant Aug 2022 – Feb 2023

Assisted the core team in implementation of Procure to Pay, Financial Accounting and Banking.
Assist with ongoing day to day workday functional support, creation of organizations, custom validation, security assignments and troubleshooting errors.
Setup custom validations to on journals to prevent class of entries.
Created custom reports for balance, income statement and custom trial balance based on customer financial needs.
Created new business processes and notifications in development tenant and sandbox based on designed business flow requirements.
Experience in working on troubleshooting integrations, enhancement, customization, and production support of workday modules along with experience in maintenance and creation of workday supervisory organizations, locations, positions, cost centers, cost center hierarchies.
Experience in workday implementations, workday business process configurations, and Workday Security.
Communicated between the business and technical teams to solve Workday problems.
Worked on Implementation of Procurement / Supplier Accounts.
Created Custom Reports for End Users (Advanced, Matrix, Composite).

Senior Financial Consultant Jun 2021 – July 2022

Provided frontline support for Customer Accounts, addressing End-user inquiries and resolving system issues in a timely manner.
Assisted in the configuration of Workday modules and supported the implementation of system updates and enhancements.
Collaborated with HR and Finance teams to understand business processes and translate user requirements into actionable system changes.
Helped users modify and update customer contracts to ensure billing and revenue schedules were updated in accordance with the contract.
Helped process customer invoices so that the team was up to date on billing.
Troubleshoot and assist consultants with issues related to payment application, invoice and customer contracts.
Financial Consultant April 2020 – May 2021

Assisted with enhancements to Customer Accounts to enhance invoicing process and ensure invoices were approved and sent to customers efficiently.
Configured rules to automate cash application.
Assisted with mergers to consolidate and convert data for customer accounts.
Co-operated with Clients and their teams in end-to-end testing and preparation.
Supported with Security updates and audits of Security Roles.
Worked with Workday Support to resolve production related tickets.
Categorized and provided resolution to integration failures.
Configured Payment Terms, Payment Type, Supplier Groups.
Configured Account posting rules using dimensions to meet unique requirements
Assisted with Implementation of Revenue, Customer Contracts and configured payment application rules.

Financial Consultant Oct. 2017 – April 2019

Proficient in enhancing existing reports and worked with Advanced and Matrix reports, assigning security to reports primary and related business objects.
Constructed and Tested Bank Reconciliation and first notice Rules.
Facilitated meetings between IT staff and business leaders regarding technical specifications needed for implementing Workday activities.
Provide tier-2 and tier-3 support for Workday HCM and Financial Management modules, addressing user inquiries, troubleshooting issues, and ensuring timely resolution.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and implement solutions for complex system issues and enhancements.
Communicated with new Consultants to help them ramp up and understand how to find information and how to help customers by using workday’s best practices.
Supported customers after they go live, and ensure they are adopting new functionality being introduced as part of the release.
Provided Production support for Customer Accounts, Procurement, Supplier Accounts, Financials and Projects.
Sustained Client with Unit Testing, End to End Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
Created and assisted with functional Specs for Reporting in Procure to Pay, and Customer Account.

Financial Analyst Mar. 2015 – Oct. 2017

Automated 65% of the monthly accounts receivable entry and billing processes and increased efficiencies by 200%.
Analyzed internal operations, identified areas for process enhancement, and provided recommendations to the company.
Evaluated and implemented improved processes and new technologies and developed computer models to assess the success of proposed recommendations.
Designed actionable business strategies and plans and ensured alignment with short and long-term business objectives.
Compile and analyze financial information from all components of the organizational entity, and develop integrated revenue/expense analyses, projections, reports, and presentations.
Performed business and system analysis and provided documentation for deliverables.
Developed monthly reports and assisted in budgets, salaries, wages, and training for employees across the DND.
Monitored general ledger accounts using existing reporting solutions, analyzed and interpreted the data, and provided input to improve month-end analysis.
Accurately processed payments and documents such as invoices, journal vouchers, reimbursements, and statements.
Coordinated between cross channel teams to identify and resolve daily production issues.

Skills

Workday Financials configuration
General Ledger, Accounts Payable, and Accounts Receivable expertise
Financial reporting and analytics
Data migration and integration
System troubleshooting and support
End-user training

Education

BBA COMMERCE

University of Ottawa