Finance Director – Workday ERP Transformation

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🌽 Illinois, New York, +2 more states – Remote

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💵 $149k - $248k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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Guidehouse

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

10,000+ employees

Founded 2018

🏥 Healthcare

🎖️ Defense

📦 Logistics

💰 Grant on 2023-02

Healthcare • Defense • Logistics

Guidehouse is a global consultancy offering advisory, digital, and managed services across commercial and public sectors. It is purpose-built to support industries such as national security, financial services, healthcare, energy, and infrastructure. Guidehouse collaborates with leaders to navigate complexity and drives transformational changes that impact the future. Their expertise spans data analytics, digital technologies, risk management, and more, with a strong emphasis on sustainability and innovation.

📋 Description

• Serve as the lead finance architect for the transition to Workday Financial Management, defining target-state, transition-state, and post-deployment architecture • Lead end-to-end solution design across the Workday Financials platform • Translate finance strategy, business requirements, accounting policies, internal controls, and reporting needs into scalable Workday configurations and architecture decisions • Assess the current environment and determine the disposition of capabilities • Own finance data conversion strategy, including profiling, cleansing, mapping, transformation, reconciliation, historical data retention, cutover, and post-migration validation • Provide architectural oversight for integrations and enterprise platforms • Establish finance design principles, documentation standards, governance forums, decision rights, and controls • Lead design reviews and resolve complex ERP issues involving standardization, localization, security, segregation of duties, data quality, performance, scalability, auditability, and regulatory compliance • Guide system integration testing, user acceptance testing, finance reconciliation, conversion validation, cutover planning, deployment readiness, hypercare, and stabilization • Partner with implementation vendors and internal teams to manage scope, dependencies, risks, issues, milestones, and architecture deliverables • Develop the post-implementation operating model, enhancement roadmap, release governance, support processes, and continuous improvement agenda • Partner across Finance, Accounting, Technology, Data, Procurement, Human Capital, Operations, Internal Audit, and implementation teams • Communicate architecture decisions, risks, trade-offs, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders • Anticipate cross-functional ERP impacts and drive timely issue resolution • Foster collaboration and accountability across functions

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Business, or a related field • 12+ years of progressive finance, ERP, finance transformation, or enterprise systems experience, including leadership of complex implementations • Deep expertise in Workday architecture, configuration, business processes, security, reporting, integrations, and deployment methodology • Demonstrated experience serving as a Workday Financials architect or lead solution designer for a large-scale implementation or transformation • Required Workday ERP background with strong understanding of Workday finance processes, data structures, configuration, integrations, reporting, controls, and legacy-system dependencies • Workday Financial Management certifications or equivalent advanced implementation credentials • Proven experience transitioning from Peoplesoft or another complex legacy ERP to Workday, including architecture, data conversion, integration, testing, cutover, and stabilization activities • Broad understanding of ERP issues across accounting, financial reporting, planning, revenue, billing, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, projects, expenses, assets, banking, tax, payroll, master data, security, and controls • Strong knowledge of finance operating models, U.S. GAAP, internal controls, segregation of duties, audit requirements, and data governance • Experience leading cross-functional design workshops, architecture reviews, issue resolution, and executive decision-making • Exceptional analytical, program leadership, stakeholder management, written communication, and presentation skills • Experience with Workday Accounting Center, Adaptive Planning, Prism Analytics, Extend, Studio, Enterprise Interface Builder, web services, or related integration capabilities • Experience in a large, global, publicly traded, professional services, or other complex multi-entity organization • Experience leading ERP operating-model redesign, finance process transformation, change management, adoption, and benefits realization • Finance or accounting credential such as CPA, CMA, or MBA is nice to have

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance • Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays • Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus • Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance • 401(k) Retirement Plan • Basic Life & Supplemental Life • Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts • Short-Term & Long-Term Disability • Student Loan PayDown • Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities • Skills Development & Certifications • Employee Referral Program • Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach • Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program • Mobility Stipend • Flexible benefits package • Up to 25% travel