Finance Director: Lead Workday ERP Transformation

Guidehouse; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 149,000 - 248,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Professional Development & Learning

Job summary

Guidehouse seeks a Finance Director – Workday ERP Transformation to lead the Workday Financial Management implementation and optimize the ERP landscape across Finance, Accounting, Technology, Data, and other enterprise teams. You will translate complex requirements into scalable Workday configurations and manage data conversion, security, and controls.

The role requires deep Workday Financials expertise, PSA module knowledge preferred, and a track record of large-scale ERP transformations in a

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, information systems, business, or 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.

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 and supplier accounts, procurement, expenses, projects, assets, banking, budgeting, reporting, and analytics.
• Translate finance strategy, business requirements, accounting policies, internal controls, and reporting needs into scalable Workday configurations and architecture decisions.
• 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 workstreams.
• Lead design reviews and resolve complex ERP issues involving process standardization, localization, security, segregation of duties, data quality, performance, scalability, auditability, and regulatory compliance.

Skills

Workday architecture

ERP transformation leadership

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, information systems, business, or related field

Tools

Workday ERP

Workday Financial Management certifications

Job description

Guidehouse seeks a Finance Director – Workday ERP Transformation to lead the Workday Financial Management implementation and optimize the ERP landscape across Finance, Accounting, Technology, Data, and other enterprise teams. You will translate complex requirements into scalable Workday configurations and manage data conversion, security, and controls.

The role requires deep Workday Financials expertise, PSA module knowledge preferred, and a track record of large-scale ERP transformations in a