Manage Globally and Locally
Workday's adaptive, global framework enables you to manage talent, revenue, costs, and growth—both locally and globally.
With Workday’s global core, you can:
- Track your entire workforce in a unified, global system-of-record
- Analyze and compare revenues, costs, growth, performance, and efficiency by location, cost center, or team
- Implement consistent global business processes while accommodating local requirements
- Model your organizations, entities, locations, and cost centers as they really exist around the world
- Support multi-entity, multi-language, multi-currency, and multi-book needs for your entire global business and workforce
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Workday's unique global architecture helps you increase visibility into your global organization, align work to strategic objectives, and optimize your talent deployment around the world. Workday also provides a basis of global best practices and supports local organizational requirements. With Workday, you can be confident that your system will grow with you as you expand your global footprint.
Global Architecture
- Model all types organizations that exist around the world, including: legal entities, locations, cost centers, regions, and more
- Manage worker information in multiple languages, currencies, and formats
- Configure security by role, organization, or country
- Define globally consistent business processes with local approvals, validations, or notifications
- Maintain name, address, personal, diversity, and identification data for each employee in the appropriate language and format
- Support multiple currencies as well as view amounts in both corporate and local currencies simultaneously
Global HR and Talent Management
- Get real-time, actionable demographic workforce analytics about the entire global workforce, including employees, contractors, vendors, etc.
- Establish standard job profiles and compensation packages that capture local job information to compare job- and workforce-related costs worldwide
- Roll out multi-target, multi-currency compensation processes to global teams
- Design globally consistent talent management processes to improve efficiency and alignment while minimizing costs and risk
- Find 'ready' talent regardless of location to support global talent mobility
Global Financial Management
- Get real-time financial and operational insight at both a consolidated global and local level
- Support multiple legal entities, currencies, languages, and reporting standards from a single, unified system
- Use configurable business processes and security groups to ensure separation of roles and duties for regulatory compliance
- Easily adapt to evolving changes in the financial and regulatory landscape, such as IFRS and XBRL
- Create local compliance reports using custom reporting framework designed for business users
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