Workday Financials Technical Lead

Guidehouse Inc.; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Guidehouse Inc. in McLean, VA seeks a Workday Financials Technical Lead to own the Finance System of Record.

You will drive platform stability, execution quality, and governance across configuration, integrations, data, security, and operations. You will partner with Finance leadership, IT, Data, Security, and delivery teams to translate priorities into secure, scalable Workday solutions and oversee end-to-end delivery and release readiness.

Responsibilities

• Lead as the senior technical owner of the Workday Financial Management platform, ensuring stability and delivery outcomes.
• Own day-to-day IT ownership for Workday Financials, including deployment readiness and operational health.
• Translate Finance and Accounting priorities into executable technical work with IT Finance, leadership and partners.
• Manage scope, architecture, risk, and delivery for Workday changes and enhancements with technical resources and partners.
• Ensure solutions comply with enterprise architecture, security, data privacy, controls, and change-management processes.
• Provide technical direction for configuration and lifecycle management across GL, AP, AR, Asset, Revenue, Banking, Procurement, Expenses, Projects, and related functions.
• Oversee Chart of Accounts, worktags, hierarchies, validation rules, and financial dimensions with data owners.
• Guide configuration of workflows, approvals, notifications, validations, and system controls for scalability and auditability.
• Own integrations, data mapping, transformation, reconciliation, error handling, and production readiness.
• Ensure data integrity, lineage, and auditability across Workday, integrations, and reporting.
• Lead data conversion planning, cleansing, validation, reconciliation, and production readiness.
• Oversee reporting capabilities and coordinate with Enterprise Data and AI on standards and downstream reporting.
• Partner with data owners to maintain definitions, access, retention, and governance for financial data.

Job description

What You Will Do

The Workday Financials Technical Lead serves as the senior technical owner of the Finance System of Record (Workday Financial Management), accountable for platform stability, execution quality, control effectiveness, and delivery outcomes. This role leads the technical capabilities that support Finance and Accounting, translating enterprise financial priorities into secure, scalable, well-governed solutions across configuration, integrations, data, security, reporting, and operations.

Operating within the IT Finance portfolio, this role partners closely with the IT Finance Portfolio Lead, Finance and Accounting leadership, Procurement, Enterprise Data and AI, Security, Architecture, internal delivery teams, and implementation and support partners. The role is recognized as the senior technical authority for Workday Financials and its connected financial data ecosystem.

Platform Ownership & Technical Execution

Serve as the day-to-day IT owner for Workday Financial Management, accountable for execution, stability, operational health, and the integrity of the end-to-end financial platform.

Maintain deep expertise in Workday Financials capabilities, constraints, configuration patterns, integration frameworks, security concepts, and product roadmap. Assess and recommend adoption, deferral, or avoidance of new functionality based on business value, technical fit, risk, and total lifecycle impact.

Translate Finance and Accounting priorities, defined in partnership with the IT Finance Portfolio Lead and Finance leadership, into executable technical work and lead delivery through assigned technical resources and partners.

Own technical delivery for Workday Financials changes and enhancements, including scope alignment, architecture and design decisions, dependency management, estimation, risk mitigation, issue resolution, testing readiness, deployment, and escalation.

Ensure solutions comply with enterprise architecture, IT standards, security requirements, data privacy expectations, financial controls, segregation-of-duties requirements, and change management processes.

Financials Configuration & Business Process Enablement

Provide technical direction for configuration and lifecycle management across applicable Workday Financial Management capabilities, including General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Management, Revenue Management, Banking and Settlement, Procurement, Expenses, Projects, and related functions.

Oversee the technical integrity of the Chart of Accounts, worktags, hierarchies, validation rules, organizations, companies, cost centers, business units, projects, and other financial dimensions in partnership with accountable Finance data owners.

Guide configuration of business processes, workflow routing, approvals, notifications, validations, and system controls so that solutions are scalable, supportable, auditable, and aligned to approved business requirements.

Apply strong knowledge of accounting and financial operations to identify when a requirement should be solved through Workday configuration, an integration, an enterprise data solution, a connected application, or a business process change.

Integrations, Data & Reporting Governance

Own the technical health and design coherence of inbound and outbound Workday Financials integrations with internal and external systems, including monitoring, data mapping, transformation, reconciliation, error handling, and coordinated issue resolution.

Ensure data integrity, completeness, timeliness, lineage, and auditability across Workday Financials, integrations, conversions, reporting, and downstream consumers.

Lead technical planning and governance for financial and master data conversion, including cleansing, validation, reconciliation, defect resolution, and production readiness.

Oversee Workday Financials reporting capabilities, including operational reports, composite reports, dashboards, and financial analytical outputs, while coordinating with Enterprise Data and AI on downstream reporting and enterprise data standards.

Partner with Finance data owners to maintain clear definitions, quality controls, access management, retention expectations, and governance for the Chart of Accounts and other foundational financial data.

Operations, Controls & Lifecycle Management

Ensure operational readiness and platform stability, including system health monitoring, integration monitoring, incident follow-up, defect triage, root-cause analysis, problem management, and service-level performance.

Coordinate Workday lifecycle activities such as releases, upgrades, environment management, regression testing, security reviews, integration changes, operational handoffs, and production deployment readiness.

Establish and maintain a risk-based testing approach covering unit testing, system integration testing, user acceptance testing support,