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Finance Lead, Workday ERP Transformation
Emory University. Own finance workstream scope, priorities, deliverables, dependencies, decisions, risks, and readiness in coordination with the ERP PMO .
Core Competencies
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Demonstrates extensive expertise in finance leadership, particularly in Workday Financial Management, with a strong focus on financial controls, reporting, and transformation initiatives. Proven ability to influence stakeholders and manage complex financial operations in higher education or healthcare settings.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Workday Financial Management ExperienceFinancial LeadershipGeneral Ledger ExpertiseFinancial Transformation DeliveryCPA, CMA, Or Comparable Credential
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Hard Skills
Financial Planning And AnalysisChart Of Accounts DesignInternal Controls KnowledgeReporting DesignProcure To Pay ProcessesAccounts Payable ManagementGrants And Contracts AccountingTreasury ManagementData Integrity AssuranceSOX Compliance
Soft Skills
Stakeholder CommunicationInfluencing Senior LeadersDecision-MakingConflict ResolutionTraining And Knowledge Transfer
Certifications & Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree In AccountingMaster's Degree PreferredCPACMA
Industry Keywords
Higher EducationHealthcare FinanceFund AccountingMulti-Entity Financial StructuresEnterprise Cloud Financial System
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesCloudERP
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Own finance workstream scope, priorities, deliverables, dependencies, decisions, risks, and readiness in coordination with the ERP PMO
- Serve as functional product owner for Workday Financial Management
- Approve future-state finance design, including enterprise chart of accounts and financial data model
- Guide design for general ledger and reporting, procure to pay, accounts payable, non-patient billing and receivables, grants and contracts accounting, assets and leases, treasury, and planning interfaces
- Align University and Healthcare requirements and promote standardized processes
- Document rationale and approval for material exceptions
- Ensure financial controls, segregation of duties, policy and SOX-style impacts, security, data integrity, and regulatory and management reporting are addressed
- Lead finance participation in requirements, configuration reviews, data conversion and reconciliation, testing, cutover, deployment readiness, and stabilization
- Coordinate with functional and technical leads, Internal Audit, Change Management, Workday, consultants, and finance subject matter advisers
- Communicate decisions and impacts, build stakeholder alignment, and ensure effective training, knowledge transfer, and transition to ongoing support
- Perform related responsibilities as required
Requirements
What you’ll need- Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business administration, or a related field
- Ten years of progressively responsible financial leadership, operations, or transformation experience, including experience leading complex teams or workstreams
- Broad finance expertise spanning controllership and financial planning and analysis
- Strong knowledge of general ledger, chart of accounts, reporting, and internal controls
- Experience delivering a large-scale finance transformation or enterprise cloud financial system
- Direct Workday Financial Management experience strongly preferred
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders, resolve competing priorities, make enterprise decisions, and communicate complex financial and system topics clearly
- Master's degree and CPA, CMA, or comparable professional credential preferred
- Preferred: full life-cycle Workday Financial Management implementation experience
- Preferred: experience in higher education, academic medicine, or healthcare, including fund or grant accounting and multi-entity financial structures
Benefits
Comp & perks- Equal opportunity employment
- Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities
- Remote work from home day options may be granted at department discretion