Director, Financial Systems

Director, Applications Financial Systems

We are seeking a strategic and results driven Director to lead the implementation and optimization of Workday Financials and enterprise reporting capabilities.

• Plans and oversees day‑to‑day departmental objectives; monitors team deliverables, performance, and provides corrective action when necessary.
• Assists in providing training for IT staff and business users.
• Directs departmental team through guidance, administration, maintenance, and updates of assigned application platforms and business verticals.
• Provides leadership for the selection, maintenance, enhancements, training, upgrades, and other core components of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and other financial systems software.
• Plans and works closely with the business and internal IT personnel, system vendors and staff as system changes and upgrades are planned, tested, and implemented.
• Assures modifications and upgrades are successfully tested before implementation to the live environment.
• Manages relationships with executives and key stakeholders across business units to support initiatives, requests, and complex escalations.
• Manages vendor and internal relationships within projects and day‑to‑day operations for the applications.
• Determines modifications, upgrades, and testing schedules for financial analysis and applications.
• Manages project resources, funds, and schedules to ensure responsiveness to business needs.
• Collaborates with IT and finance departments on system requirements to meet business needs.
• Partners with cross‑functional teams on product evaluations, implementations, and upgrades.
• Obtains specifications, research, and design of new implementation of systems and process.
• Ensures application inventory, documentation, and modelling for all applications and supported verticals.
• Utilizes standard reporting tools to write, maintain and support a variety of reports or queries for business and IT use.
• Works with IT, Data and BI staff to resolve complex reporting issues.
• Helps maintain data integrity in systems by running queries and analyzing data to validate against controls.
• Reviews and approves change management processes over team within defined change control process to ensure delivery based on goals and prioritization to include systems management.
• Creates and enhances process documentation, procedures, and policies.
• Maintains documentation and works with IT teams and assigned business stakeholders to address concerns on dictated standards and policies.

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management, Business Administration, Computer Science, Information Technology and/or related preferred.
• Minimum eight (8) years of experience in Business Systems, Applications Management, Business Process Development & Analytics and/or related field.
• Minimum five (5) years of experience implementing and/or managing tier 1 and/or tier 2 ERP systems with preferred experience in the following modules:
  General Ledger with Treasury, Budgeting, Accounts Payable, PO, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets, and Project Accounting.
• Minimum three (3) years of experience with integrations and/or EDI between systems and/or partners.
• Minimum three (3) years of experience providing support to help analyze data and design and build reports as needed.
• Minimum two (2) years of experience managing banking and/or payment processing systems including gateways, positive pay, NACHA, 3rd party payment processors.
• Minimum five (5) years of leadership experience with direct reports.
• Advanced experience in software development methodologies to include UML, Agile, and Waterfall.
• Advanced experience and knowledge in technology business process development.
• Experience with complex financial application system software projects, system maintenance, tools, and support.
• Experience supporting and maintaining ERP applications (including, but not limited to, application and report modifications upgrades, implementations, and training).
• Experience assists in the implementation of internal and external audit recommendations over internal control procedures and information technology related systems,…