Senior Workday Finance Operations Lead

Kansas Health System; Kansas City (KS); Híbrido; USD 140.000 - 190.000; Tempo integral

Resumo da vaga

The University of Kansas Health System is seeking an Assistant Director of Finance Operations to provide technical leadership for Workday Financial Management, acting as the primary decision-maker for architecture, security, and integration strategy.

In this role you will supervise a growing team of Workday financials analysts and administrators, maintain a strong controls environment, and translate operational requirements into scalable, durable system solutions.

Qualificações

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance or a related field from an accredited college or university.
• 8 or more years of experience supporting ERP or financial systems, with substantial time in ERP or financial systems roles.
• 8 or more years of experience in functional and technical expertise in Workday FIN, including business process configuration, security, and integration design.
• 8 or more years of experience in accounting operations and financial reporting - the ability to evaluate system design from a financial practitioner's perspective is essential to this role.
• 8 or more years of experience with Workday integration tools (EIB, Workday Sutdio, APIs) and enterprise system environments.
• 8 or more years of demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into durable technical solutions.

Responsabilidades

• Serve as the functional and technical owner for Workday Financials and its configuration design.
• Manage the integrity of financial structures including work tags, ledgers, and organizational hierarchies.
• Lead Workday release cycles, testing, and deployment of enhancements aligned to organizational priorities.
• Drive configuration and architecture enhancements to improve automation and reduce manual workarounds.
• Evaluate and implement Workday features aligned to organizational and departmental priorities.
• Maintain documentation of configurations, integrations, and system standards.
• Provide security design for Workday FIN, including domain security, groups, and SDA.
• Partner with HITS security administration to implement security changes for FIN areas.
• Conduct regular access reviews and escalate findings.
• Oversee documentation of security decisions and audit readiness.
• Lead technical workstreams for Workday Financials transactions or new entities.
• Direct architecture decisions for new entity integrations and governance standards.
• Translate transaction requirements into scalable system solutions with Finance.
• Lead design and oversight of integrations between Workday Financials and other systems.
• Partner with HITS to develop/maintain integrations using Workday tools (EIB, Studio, Extend, APIs).
• Ensure accurate and timely data flow; troubleshoot integrations with scalable solutions.
• Oversee configuration of financial data structures to support reporting.
• Enable reporting through Workday-native reports and dashboards.
• Support data governance for consistency and accuracy of financial data.
• Provide leadership oversight for a team of Workday Financials admins and analysts.
• Develop and deliver technical training focusing on configuration standards and security.
• Establish documentation practices and knowledge transfer to reduce reliance on single experts.
• Set technical standards and governance practices for the team.
• Must be able to perform the professional, clinical and or technical competencies of the unit.
• Other duties may be assigned.

Conhecimentos

ERP systems

Workday FIN security

Integration design

System governance

Leadership

Data integrity

Auditing knowledge

Stakeholder communication

Formação

Bachelor's Degree in Accounting/Finance or related field

Master's Degree in Accounting/Finance/MBA or related field

Ferramentas

Workday Studio

EIB

APIs

Descrição da vaga

The University of Kansas Health System is seeking an Assistant Director of Finance Operations to provide technical leadership for Workday Financial Management, acting as the primary decision-maker for architecture, security, and integration strategy.

In this role you will supervise a growing team of Workday financials analysts and administrators, maintain a strong controls environment, and translate operational requirements into scalable, durable system solutions.