Finance Edition
Highlights | Lights out Finance | Workday Rising | May Events
Highlights
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Financial Management Customers
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Procurement Customers
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Lights out finance
impactful AI for strategic finance teams
Think about a factory floor that runs overnight with no human operators — machines executing, monitoring, and self-correcting autonomously. Lights Out Finance is that same idea applied to your finance function.
Today, financial close, reconciliation, planning, and audit are episodic, labor-intensive, "all hands on deck" exercises. Lights Out Finance is the vision where those processes become continuous and autonomous — running in the background, 24/7, without requiring your team to manually drive them.
Workday’s delivered AI Agents shown below, are leading the charge by helping teams optimize, save and provide more accurate financial reporting to the business.
Ready for lights out finance? Learn more below.
Our Annual User Conference, Workday Rising, is just around the corner! This is my favorite event of the year, where we all get together to hear all the things our customers like you are accomplishing in Workday, key product announcements and what the road ahead with work powered by AI looks like.
Here’s what you need to know:
When & Where: Workday Rising is taking place in Las Vegas at the Venetian from October 12-15
How to Register (link below): Registration goes live on the afternoon of Wednesday, May 6
Securing the best price: Early bird pricing ($400 discount) will be available until June 16, group discounting will also be available for groups of 6 or more
If you will require budgetary approvals: We’ve got a justification letter template linked below that you can leverage to secure budget and meet us in Vegas!
Workday Rising
Christian’s Picks
My Top Events for May
Unifying the Vendor Lifecycle
Tuesday, May 5 at 12 PM CST
Managing vendors in fragmented silos—where the RFP lives in one system and the final contract in another—creates significant blind spots, compliance gaps, and missed savings. To achieve true strategic value, leading organizations are moving toward a holistic vendor management model that connects the dots between sourcing, contracting, and ongoing performance.
In this webinar, discover how Workday Contract Management natively integrates with Workday Strategic Sourcing and Workday Procurement to provide a single, seamless system for the entire vendor lifecycle. We will demonstrate how data captured during the RFP process flows directly into contract drafting, and how executed contract terms automatically trigger purchasing controls and performance reviews.
From RFP to ROI
Superintelligence for Finance
Powered by Sana Enterprise
Wednesday, May 13 at 11 AM CST
In this session, we’ll dive into how Sana Superintelligence helps finance teams like yours make faster, higher-confidence decisions by sitting across your operational + reporting systems and turning fragmented data into clear, actionable answers. It can immediately explain what is driving variances in sales, margin, and labor by banner, region, or channel; surface where you’re leaking value through shrink, markdowns, and excess inventory; and highlight opportunities to improve working capital without compromising availability.
At the same time, it can reduce the cycle time to produce board materials, investor narratives, and performance updates for operators by drafting content grounded in your latest numbers and policies, while enabling your finance and business teams to self-serve routine insights so you and your staff can spend more time on strategy and less on manual analysis and report chasing.
Workforce Management for Retail & Hospitality
Real-Time Visibility + Cost Control
Thursday, May 14 at 12 PM CST
Labor is often your largest controllable expense, so effective workforce management is key to profitability and customer satisfaction.
In this webinar, we’ll dive into how Workday Workforce Management is helping retail and hospitality organizations control labor costs, improve operational efficiency, and deliver exceptional customer experiences.
Thanks for reading,
Christian
Let’s keep in touch!