Workday Financials Lead - Information Technology Services, Modernization Program

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Job Description - Workday Financials Lead - Information Technology Services, Modernization Program (28780)

Workday Financials Lead - Information Technology Services, Modernization Program 28780

Description

The Department of Information Technology Services at West Virginia University is currently accepting applications for a remote Workday Financials Lead.

About the Opportunity

The Workday Financials Lead provides functional leadership for the design, implementation, and stabilization of Workday Financial Management as part of an integrated enterprise ecosystem that includes Workday HCM, Payroll, Adaptive Planning, the Huron Research Suite, external State financial systems, and a planned subsequent implementation of Workday Student.

This role is responsible for ensuring that Workday Financials functions as the institution’s financial system of record while supporting complex sponsored research administration, state reporting and compliance requirements, and future student-related financial integration. The Workday Financials Lead plays a critical role in defining integration patterns, data ownership, and governance across systems while maintaining auditability, scalability, and long-term sustainability.

This role operates in a multi-system environment and requires comfort designing and governing financial processes across Workday, research administration platforms, and external state systems, with an emphasis on long-term scalability and future implementation phases.

We strongly believe in work-life balance and keeping time for things we love outside our work. WVU offers generous benefits, including:

• 24 annual leave (vacation) days per year or more based on years of service ( employee leave )
• 18 sick days per year (for when you’re ill, for when you need time to care for sick family, for your own, or your family’s, regularly scheduled medical appointments. Who is family for the purpose of this leave? A lot of people in your life including immediate relatives and in-laws as well as others considered to be members of your household living under the same roof)
• 401(a) retirement savings with 6% employee contribution match, eligibility to continue health insurance, and other retiree perks. Looking for more retirement benefits information ? Check out retirement health insurance benefits, retirement income, and FAQ’s.
• Wellness programs

What You'll Do

Workday Financials Functional Leadership

• Lead the end-to-end functional design and configuration of Workday Financial Management, including:
  • General Ledger and Foundation Data Model (FDM)
  • Accounts Payable
  • Accounts Receivable
  • Asset Management
  • Expenses
  • Procurement and Supplier Accounts
  • Banking, Cash, and Settlement
  • Grants-adjacent financial processes (in coordination with Research Administration)
• Define and enforce financial business processes that balance institutional consistency with unit-level operational needs.
• Ensure financial design supports R1-specific complexity such as restricted funds, sponsored awards, cost sharing, auxiliaries, capital projects, and multi-entity reporting.

Cross-Module and Cross-Functional Integration

• Serve as the primary Finance counterpart to HCM, Payroll, Adaptive Planning, Student, and Research Administration leads.
• Ensure alignment between financial and HCM data structures (e.g., cost centers, positions, workers, supervisory organizations).
• Partner with Adaptive Planning leads to ensure accurate financial modeling, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting.
• Collaborate with integration and data teams to ensure accurate, timely, and secure data flows between Workday and downstream/upstream systems (e.g., banks, research systems, student systems, reporting platforms).
• Act as Finance lead for enterprise integration design, partnering closely with:
• Workday Integrations and Security teams
• Research Administration systems teams (Huron Research Suite)
• State system technical and functional counterparts
• Participate in defining enterprise data governance, master data ownership, and reconciliation strategies across Workday, Huron, and state systems.
• Ensure financial data supports institutional reporting, analytics, and audit needs across platforms.

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