Interviewing the Experts: Rena Ghatoaura, Workday Financials Expert

In our Interviewing the Experts series, our Recruitment Specialists sit down with experts in their fields to discuss all the pressing topics in the ecosystem. If you're looking for answers to your burning questions, you've come to the right place! 

Joel Kirkland, Managing Director here at Focus on WD and Focus on SAP, sat down to pose a few questions to Rena Ghatoaura, Workday Financials expert. Rena started her career in finance as an end-user, working across multiple industries such as Music, Media, Theatre and Financial Services. After spending 5 years supporting another ERP system, Rena moved into the Workday space as a Financials Consultant, and has become quite the expert in Spend.  

Joel and Rena delve into Workday Financials, with a special focus on Spend, covering a multitude of topics such as: 

✅The use of having a finance background as a Workday Financials Consultant 

✅ What is Spend? 

✅The best tips for implementing Spend 

✅What skills do you need on your team to manage a Spend implementation? 

✅Other functional areas where skills transfer well to working with Spend 

✅Optical Character Recognition 

✅What is a Workday Product Lead, and what are the benefits of becoming one? 

If you'd like to speak to Joel or Rena, send us a message here or email joel.kirkland@focuscloud.org