Finance Director – Workday ERP Transformation

Location: New York

## Finance Director – Workday ERP Transformation Apply:
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** Job Family:
** Finance Planning & Analysis
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* Travel Required:

** Up to 25%
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* Clearance Required:

** None
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* What You Will Do:

** The Finance Director – Workday ERP Transformation will serve as the lead subject matter expert for the Workday Financial Management ERP tool in the Finance department. This highly visible role will drive the design and use of the Workday ERP tool within the organization, ensuring that business and control requirements translate into scalable Workday design decisions, and leverage the tool’s capabilities effectively.  

This leader will guide the organization, and the finance department through the implementation, deployment, stabilization, and optimization of the Workday ERP tool and ensure alignment with associated business processes.

The Director will partner across Finance, Accounting, Technology, Data, Procurement, Human Capital, Operations, Internal Audit, and implementation teams to align Workday capabilities with enterprise processes and reporting needs. The successful candidate will bring deep Workday Financials expertise, including, ideally, knowledge of the PSA module.  Guidehouse is seeking a high-energy, hardworking leader who is deeply committed to and passionate about our mission, approaches colleagues and clients with humility and integrity, and thrives in a collaborative environment.
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* Key Responsibilities:

*** 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, including the Foundation Data Model, general ledger, accounting, revenue, customer accounts, supplier accounts, procurement, expenses, projects, assets, banking, settlements, budgeting, reporting, and analytics.
* Translate finance strategy, business requirements, accounting policies, internal controls, and reporting needs into scalable Workday configurations and architecture decisions.
* Assess the current environment, including chart of accounts, master data, workflows, customizations, interfaces, reports, controls, and downstream dependencies, and determine the appropriate disposition for each capability.
* Own finance data conversion strategy, including data profiling, cleansing, mapping, transformation, reconciliation, historical data retention, cutover, and post-migration validation.
* Provide architectural oversight for integrations, banking, payroll, tax, procurement, expense, billing, planning, data warehouse, reporting, and other enterprise platforms.
* Establish finance design principles, documentation standards, governance forums, decision rights, and controls to maintain consistency across functional and technical work streams.
* Lead design reviews and resolve complex ERP issues involving process 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 for Workday Financials.
** Role Expectations:
*** Operate as a hands-on architect who can move effectively between enterprise…