Finance Director - Workday ERP Transformation

Guidehouse Inc.; McLean (VA); Vor Ort; USD 180.000 - 260.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Guidehouse Inc. is seeking a Finance Director to lead the Workday ERP Transformation, serving as the lead SME for Workday Financial Management and driving design decisions that translate business requirements into scalable configurations.

The director will guide finance, accounting, technology, and implementation teams through deployment, stabilization, and optimization, ensuring alignment with enterprise processes.

Qualifikationen

• 12+ years of progressive finance, ERP, finance transformation, or enterprise systems experience, including leadership
• Lead design and architecture for Workday Financial Management across multiple finance domains
• Partner with cross-functional teams to align Workday with enterprise processes and reporting needs
• Drive data conversion, cutover planning, and post-migration validation

Aufgaben

• Serve as lead finance architect for Workday Financial Management transition
• Lead end-to-end solution design across Workday Financials (GL, revenue, procurement, etc.)
• Translate finance requirements into scalable Workday configurations
• Assess current environment and determine disposition of capabilities
• Own finance data conversion strategy and post-migration validation
• Provide architectural oversight for integrations and related platforms
• Establish design principles, governance, and controls

Kenntnisse

Workday Financials expertise

ERP transformation leadership

Stakeholder management

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Business, or a related field

Tools

Workday ERP

Jobbeschreibung

Job Family :

Finance Planning & Analysis

Travel Required :

Up to 25%

Clearance Required :

None

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.

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 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.
• 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 strategy, detailed finance process design, system configuration, data, integrations, controls, testing, and issue resolution.

Build trusted relationships with finance executives, accounting leaders, technology teams, business owners, and external implementation partners.

Challenge unnecessary customization and promote standardized, sustainable processes while accounting for critical business and compliance requirements.

Communicate complex architecture decisions, risks, trade-offs, and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Anticipate cross-functional ERP impacts and drive timely resolution of issues that could affect close, reporting, controls, business continuity, or implementation milestones.

Maintain strong documentation, decision discipline, quality standards, and accountability throughout the transformation.

Bring high energy and a strong work ethic to the transformation, demonstrating sustained commitment to and passion for Guidehouse's mission while maintaining humility, integrity, and accountability.

Foster a highly collaborative environment by actively listening, sharing credit, welcoming diverse perspectives, and partnering across functions to achieve collective outcomes.

What You Will Need:

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 leade