FINANCE SOFTWARE FOR MID-SIZE BUSINESS
Operate with confidence on a trusted platform
Run your mid-size business smarter and faster by simplifying your finance back office. Workday GO brings financial operations and reporting onto the trusted Workday platform with AI agents that reduce manual work, improve accuracy and help your team focus on what matters.
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FINANCE SOFTWARE CAPABILITIES
Fast time to value with full control
Be confident in your accounting
Automatically create accounting entries for an in-the-moment view into consolidated financial performance. When you bring your finance processes together on the trusted Workday platform with governed AI agents, you can avoid waiting for period-end to get the answers you need.
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Multidimensional general ledger
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Anomaly detection by AI agents
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Real-time financial reporting
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Streamlined period close tasks
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Consolidation across entities
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Asset management
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Always-on audit trail
Accelerate your cash flow
Streamline and automate your invoice-to-collections process. With customer and collections data on the Workday platform and AI agents automating repetitive tasks, you can increase the accuracy of invoices, accelerate cash flow and reduce Days Sales Outstanding.
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Automated billing and collection cycles
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Real-time AR aging balances
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Revenue recognition schedules
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Comprehensive customer profiles
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Centralized revenue reporting
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Auto-apply customer payments
Control spend with better visibility
Provide your back-office teams with the ability to enforce spending policies and identify cost-saving opportunities. Make expense reporting easy with a fast, intuitive way to capture and submit expenses on the go, with AI agents helping check details and reduce manual work.
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Accounts payable automation
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Supplier management
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Mobile expense entry and approval
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Timely payments and reimbursements
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Embedded reporting and analytics
Lock down compliance and security.
Gain full visibility into who did what and when with tracking on every transaction – helping you identify risks and manage internal audits with up-to-the-minute data on the secure Workday platform with embedded AI.
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Embedded audit and controls
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Self-documenting audit trails
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Configurable controls
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Audit reports and dashboards
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Segregation of duties
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Built-in security
Make smarter decisions, faster
Generate financial reports with confidence, using real-time, reliable data – by bringing all your processes and data together on the Workday platform. When your financial processes and data live together and AI helps surface the right details, you get the visibility you need to make smarter decisions and drive better business outcomes.
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Real-time reporting by any dimension
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Actionable data with drill-down capability
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Consolidated financial statements
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Budget to actuals reporting
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Hundreds of prebuilt configurable reports
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Create and share dashboards
“Workday was a natural fit for our model: one version of the truth, real-time data and a scalable foundation. That’s what we needed, and Workday delivered.”
Andrée Bourgon
Co-Founder and COO
Ascendex Underwriters
WORKDAY GO FOR FINANCE TOUR
Dive into our product
From accounting and expenses to reporting and audit management – check out how Workday GO simplifies every important aspect of finance for you mid-size business.
FAQ
Questions? We have answers
Workday GO is Workday's go-to-market offering for midsize organisations, including UK teams with roughly 500 to 3,500 employees. It combines the Workday AI platform for HR, payroll and finance with preconfigured, fixed-fee packages and AI-led activation, so lean UK teams get the same trusted Workday used by large enterprises — with predictable scope, cost and timing. AI agents work inside your business rules, permissions and human review.
Workday unifies accounting, spend, expenses, and audit on a single AI platform, so UK finance teams work from one trusted source instead of reconciling data across disconnected tools. That reduces manual handoffs, supports a faster month-end close, and gives lean finance teams a real-time view of performance. Business users can configure reports and workflows without a large IT function behind them.
Workday embeds AI directly into everyday finance work on a single, governed data foundation. Sana from Workday is the agentic experience people talk to for validated questions and tasks. Specialist agents such as Payroll Agent and Financial Audit Agent (for supported supplier-invoice evidence retrieval) help teams anticipate, advise, and act on critical finance work. Every agent inherits your permissions, business rules and approval chains — Workday calls this "lawful by design."
Workday supports UK statutory compliance through a unified platform. Workday Payroll supports PAYE, Real Time Information submissions including FPS and EPS, and HMRC notifications for tax code updates. For MTD VAT filing, most UK organisations use Workday together with an HMRC-recognised MTD bridging or tax partner via a Workday integration. Speak to your Workday team to confirm the current UK MTD approach for your set-up.
Workday Financial Management provides a configurable transaction-tax framework covering VAT rates, applicability, recoverability and country-specific reporting, so a UK-headquartered group can manage VAT and equivalent indirect taxes across multiple jurisdictions from one system. Configurable tax-declaration layouts, alternate ledgers, and e-invoicing connectors help finance teams meet local reporting requirements without maintaining separate country tools.
Workday GO uses preconfigured packages and an AI-led activation approach to help lean teams go live in weeks, with clear expectations for scope, cost and timing. Exact timelines depend on scope; your Workday team will confirm a fixed plan up front.
HMRC-recognised software helps UK businesses meet Making Tax Digital obligations, submit VAT and PAYE returns digitally, maintain a compliant digital audit trail, and reduce the risk of penalties tied to non-compliant record-keeping. A unified platform such as Workday adds a further benefit for growing UK organisations: HR, payroll and finance data live in one place, so RTI submissions, VAT reporting and management accounts all draw from the same trusted source.
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