Director, Finance Systems Strategy & Optimization
US Remote @The College Board posted 3 weeks ago in Finance Shortlist Email JobJob Detail
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Job ID 849
Job Description
About the Opportunity
As the Director, Finance Systems Strategy & Optimization, you will lead the strategy, optimization, and continuous improvement of the College Board’s core financial systems – Workday Financials and Adaptive Planning. You will partner with teams across all Finance functions (Accounting, Procurement, Strategic Finance, and Investments), Technology, and Talent to ensure these systems are fully leveraged to deliver maximum value. You will play a critical role in owning the system roadmaps—taking full responsibility for setting and executing both immediate and long-term action plans. You will lead the investigation and implementation of new functionality, ensuring alignment with the needs and priorities of all major stakeholders. You will have a special focus on AI integration, ensuring our systems utilize the latest and greatest technologies to automate and innovate so Finance teams can work faster and most efficiently and produce more critical insights with ease. Teams will rely on you to build custom dashboards in Workday Financials and maintain financial data integrity to help to drive business decisions. You will create and maintain a suite of staff-friendly resources to ensure system processes are clear and known to all users.
Our ideal candidate is passionate about technology, along with prioritizing and simplifying – implementing the most impactful things and finding powerful solutions for complex problems. The ideal candidate has Workday Financials expertise, an excellent ability to anticipate user needs, an obsession with data, and the ability to manage the technical and people components of projects with attention to detail and speed.
In this role, you will:
Prioritize and implement technical solutions in Workday Financials to meet business needs (40%)
- Translate functional needs into solutions, ensuring that our Workday Financials solutions meet business needs and are scalable, repeatable, automated, leverage AI and new and emerging technologies, etc.
- Project manage the implementation of new features and enhancements, overseeing configuration, testing, and deployment, working with and managing external consultants, as needed
- Manage the intake and prioritization of product/systems requests, working closely with stakeholders to ensure we prioritize the most impactful work
Maintain and optimize Workday Financials from a technological and usage perspective (30%)
- Own business process enhancements and configuration of Workday Financials modules to support optimal user experience
- Develop and monitor key performance metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of Workday Financials solutions and identify areas for improvement
- Proactively analyze, identify, and correct technical problems and deficiencies
- Stay up to date with industry trends and best practices to ensure our Workday Financials and Adaptive instances are optimized
- Facilitate bi-annual Workday releases
- In collaboration with Technology, support the integrative and administrative needs of Workday Financials and Adaptive
- Create and maintain detailed documentation and user guides on major system tasks, reports, custom BPs, etc.
Lead product strategy around Finance systems (15%)
- In collaboration with Finance Leadership, define product vision for Workday Financials and Adaptive and recommend short- and long-term strategies, with special focus on AI, to meet the vision and support the goals of both Finance and the College Board overall
- Develop and maintain the Workday Financials and Adaptive product roadmaps in collaboration with functional Finance leadership, related SMEs, and Technology to optimize system use
- Provide status reports and updates to Leadership, as needed
Own comprehensive data/dashboard solutions for the Finance functions (15%)
- Design and implement comprehensive dashboard solutions within Workday Financials to provide actionable insights and support decision-making for Procurement, Accounting, and Investments
- As needed, partner with report-builders in Finance and Technology to develop custom reports
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