Lead, Workday Financials Data Conversion — Higher Ed ERP

Attain Partners; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

HSA / FSA

11 paid federal holidays

Unlimited PTO

401(k) matching

Fertility and family planning benefits

Job summary

Attain Partners is a consulting firm focused on education, nonprofit, healthcare, and government sectors. The Workday Financials Data Conversion Lead will guide the Financials data conversion workstream as part of a higher-education ERP modernization from PeopleSoft to Workday.

This role balances leadership with hands-on data analysis and scripting. You will drive discovery sessions, define conversion scope, ensure data quality, and coordinate with cross-functional teams, including system

Qualifications

• 8+ years of ERP data conversion experience, including leading a data conversion workstream or major conversion effort.
• Deep hands-on expertise with PeopleSoft Financials data structures, tables, extraction methods, and conversion tools across multiple Financials modules.
• Experience supporting PeopleSoft-to-Workday data conversions, with understanding of Workday data conversion and load processes.
• Advanced proficiency in SQL and PeopleTools, including Application Designer; working knowledge of Integration Broker preferred.
• Strong knowledge of data profiling, mapping, modeling, cleansing, transformation, reconciliation, validation, and data-quality practices.
• Ability to lead technical team members, manage workstream priorities and deliverables to quality standards.
• Ability to manage client expectations, facilitate decisions, communicate technical concepts clearly, and build trust across stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end Financials data conversion workstream, including planning, scope, sequencing, estimates, milestones, dependencies, quality standards, and delivery.
• Lead and coordinate data conversion developers, provide technical direction, review deliverables, resolve blockers, ensure consistent methods.
• Serve as the primary client contact for Financials data conversion for client, SI, functional leads, project management, and other workstreams.
• Provide clear status updates and elevate risks, issues, decisions, and cross-workstream dependencies.
• Plan mock conversions, unit and system testing, financial reconciliation, defect triage, remediation, and final validation.
• Define data-quality controls, reconciliation measures, and acceptance criteria with business sign-off.
• Maintain complete documentation of scope, mappings, transformation rules, decisions, procedures, test results, defects, reconciliations, and cutover activities.
• Partner with Financials teams to align conversion activities with implementation plan.

Skills

ERP data conversion

PeopleSoft Financials

Workday

SQL

PeopleTools

Data mapping

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Workday tools

PeopleTools

SQL Development

Data profiling tools

Job description

Attain Partners is a consulting firm focused on education, nonprofit, healthcare, and government sectors. The Workday Financials Data Conversion Lead will guide the Financials data conversion workstream as part of a higher-education ERP modernization from PeopleSoft to Workday.

This role balances leadership with hands-on data analysis and scripting. You will drive discovery sessions, define conversion scope, ensure data quality, and coordinate with cross-functional teams, including system