Akash Patel
Summary
Workday Financials Lead Consultant with extensive experience in implementing end-to-end solutions across various sectors. Expertise in asset management, including lease accounting under ASC 842, and optimizing PO-to-asset flows. Collaborates effectively with cross-functional teams to enhance financial reporting and streamline asset lifecycle operations.
Overview
1
1
Certification
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Workday Financial Consultant Lead
Avaap
01.2024 - Current
Workday Financials Implementation
Ben Franklin Transit
01.2025 - 01.2026
- Designed and configured Workday business processes, approvals, security, validation rules, and organizational structures across Procurement, Supplier Accounts, Business Assets, Expenses, and Projects.
- Led data conversion for fixed assets and spend management: purchase orders, supplier invoices, purchase items, 1099 balances, projects, project budgets, WIP balances, and assets.
- Managed asset lifecycle operations encompassing capitalization, transfers, disposals, and mass asset updates to ensure accuracy and compliance.
- Collaborated with accounting and procurement teams to streamline PO-to-asset flows, enhancing asset tagging and tracking processes.
- Led business assets and spend management initiatives.
- Configured asset books, asset classes, useful lives, depreciation profiles, capitalization rules, and CIP tracking to align with organizational standards.
Workday Financials Implementation
City of High Point
01.2025
- Led end-to-end design and deployment across Procurement, Supplier Accounts, Business Assets, Expenses, Projects, and Inventory.
- Managed data conversion for fixed assets, WIP, project budgets, and inventory-related asset items to streamline asset tracking.
- Ensured FDM alignment for asset postings, account posting rules, and dimensional hierarchies to enhance financial reporting accuracy.
- Led management of business assets, inventory, and spending processes to optimize resource allocation.
- Configured Business Assets including depreciation methods, thresholds, CIP, and asset categories.
Workday Financials Implementation
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
01.2025
- Led conversion of fixed assets, WIP balances, project budgets, and supplier spend data, ensuring data integrity and accuracy.
- Directed strategies for optimizing business asset and spend management, improving resource allocation and financial oversight.
- Designed and configured Workday Business Assets and Spend Management processes, streamlining approvals and enhancing security.
- Improved asset controls and reporting through Workday dashboards and custom reporting.
Workday Financials Lead Consultant
Santa Cruz Metro
01.2025
Workday Financials Support Consultant
STRS Ohio
01.2025
Workday Financials Support Consultant
Clark County Public Transit
01.2024
Workday Financials Support Consultant
Owens Community College
01.2023
Workday Financials Support Consultant
Salt Lake City
01.2023
Workday Financials Support Consultant
University of Akron
01.2022
Education
Bachelor of Science - Managerial Economics
University of California, Davis
Skills
- Workday Business Assets, Lease Management (ASC 842), Procurement, Supplier Accounts, Expenses, Projects, Inventory, Fixed Asset Accounting, CIP Tracking, ERP Implementation, FDM Alignment, Reporting & Close Support
- Workday Business Assets Ownership
- ERP implementation management
- Implementation Leadership
- Asset books, depreciation profiles, useful lives
- Capitalization rules, thresholds, CIP tracking
- Mass asset transactions, transfers, disposals
- PO-to-asset integration
- Lease Management & ASC 842
- Lease accounting support
- Lease reconciliation collaboration
- Infrastructure Asset Lifecycle
- High-value asset management
- Asset tracking design
- ERP Core Financials (R2R)
- FDM alignment (Worktags, posting rules, dimensional hierarchies)
- Close support management
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Reporting & Analytics
- Asset reporting
- Workday custom reports, dashboards, and RaaS/WQL familiarity
- Stakeholder engagement
Personal Information
Title: Senior Workday Financials Consultant — Business Assets & Lease Management
Certification
- Workday Business Assets
- Workday Procure-to-Pay
- Workday Contracts-to-Cash
- Workday Expenses
- Workday Projects
Timeline
Workday Financials Implementation
Ben Franklin Transit
01.2025 - 01.2026
Workday Financials Implementation
City of High Point
01.2025
Workday Financials Implementation
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
01.2025
Workday Financials Lead Consultant
Santa Cruz Metro
01.2025
Workday Financials Support Consultant
STRS Ohio
01.2025
Workday Financial Consultant Lead
Avaap
01.2024 - Current
Workday Financials Support Consultant
Clark County Public Transit
01.2024
Workday Financials Support Consultant
Owens Community College
01.2023
Workday Financials Support Consultant
Salt Lake City
01.2023
Workday Financials Support Consultant
University of Akron
01.2022
Bachelor of Science - Managerial Economics
University of California, Davis