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Manager Workday Financial Systems
231 Forest Street Wellesley, MA 02457 US
Posted: 05/08/2023
2023-05-08
2023-07-27
Employment Type:
Direct Hire/Perm
Job Number: 557191
Country: United States
Is job remote?: Yes
Job Description
The Manager, Financial Systems is responsible for supporting the use of the financial management systems, including Workday Financial Management and Adaptive.
Requirements:
Specifically responsible for:
Requirements:
- At least 6-8 years of relevant experience (prefer 8-10) with financial management technology systems; 2+ years with Workday preferred
- Must have experience in Workday financials modules specifically in GL, AP, Procurement, Reporting (Advanced, Matrix and Composite), and Security; working knowledge of Adaptive or similar ERP, as well as working knowledge of report writer tools.
- Demonstrated ability to identify and implement cost effective and efficient technology solutions for business processes
- Ability to understand business processes and requirements
- Ability to work on multiple tasks
Specifically responsible for:
- Working closely with the user community to make sure users are taking full advantage of all the features and functions of the application and applying best practices to the business process definitions being implemented; managing the day-to-day operations and overall support of the application including business process changes, security administration, financial reporting administration, and monitoring data integrations.
- Acting as the Finance functional lead in the Workday Operations team; partnering with each areas functional lead, HRIS/HR, the platform manager and other IT members; and while partnering with business stakeholders across the college, they will ensure all financial systems needs are well defined, implemented and supported
- Overall responsibility for Workday Financials day-to-day support and strategic improvements working with the functional business owners within Finance functions, HRIS, and across the College.
- Act as functional lead and overall manager of Financial Services/Budget & Financial Planning technical operations, including Workday Finances, Expenses, and Financial Reporting & Analytics, and other financial management modules and system.
- Act as primary technical owner for Babson College's Financial Services information systems and applications. Liaising with HRIS/HR team, responsible for the success of the division's initiatives through the specification, maintenance, and administration of those systems and applications.
- Responsible for system readiness, administration, and security for all finance-related solutions in production specifically the Adaptive Financial Budget Model.
- Work with end users to understand reporting needs and develop appropriate reports and report delivery timeframes; create complex reports and resolve issues with existing reports; and work in collaboration with HRIS as appropriate.
- Works with members of the Babson community to generate business process understanding to the continuous improvement of financial reporting across campus.
- Works with developers to maintain system interfaces and necessary data integrations with other campus financial database systems.
- Provides user training and ongoing support for finance-related Workday modules and other financial management systems, for efficient use of both existing functionality and emerging functionality changes.
- Ensures a production quality system, by partnering and collaborating with platform manager and other cross functional leads across campus to troubleshoot and resolve production application issues. Coordinate, review, test, and implement ongoing Workday system upgrades or patches.
- Identify and build innovative solutions in Workday to solve business needs.
- Support resolution of issues escalated; manage incidents, track ticket status and partner with teams to resolve issues.
- Drive the execution of Workday configuration; design, develop, test, and implement configuration to meet best practice utilizing the established standards and protocols enhance Workday BP's to support ongoing business process changes.
- Maintain integration related requirements and technical documentation. Monitor and triage integrations (Core Connectors, EIBs, Workday Studio, etc.) with up/down stream systems.
- Gather and consolidate unrefined business requirements from multiple sources and converge them into meaningful functional specifications
- Act as the liaison to their Information Technology Services Department (ITSD) on all information technology concerns including support tickets, data use, data integrity, and finance data security.
- Research and assist with the planning and implementation of data administration or other Financial Services projects as necessary.
- Responsible for maintaining proper security to protect confidential information & disposing of CFI in an appropriate manner (i.e., shredding/deleting electronic documents, etc. in conjunction with the Security Administration team).
- Manage Workday Finance account posting rules as needed.
- Responsible for Cost Center Management which includes creating new cost centers, moving cost centers, and ensuring all financial reporting is updated in Workday Finance (as needed and at fiscal year-end).
- Act as the point of contact for Workday Finance inquiries (daily maybe 15 to 20%).
- Manage Workday Finance report validation and testing (as needed) to ensure accuracy in Workday financial reporting.
- Audit Workday Finance BP’s, security, and financial reporting to proactively ensure all Workday Finance Systems and reporting are accurate and prepared for audit (every 6 months).
- Provide guidance and support to Finance Department Subject Matter Experts (SME’s) for all Workday Finance technical and functional needs (daily around 40%).
- Manage a variety of integrations and testing of integration files (daily for integrations 10% and testing as needed especially during bi-annual Workday upgrades and upcoming improvements in Workday financial business processes and new banking/AP P-Card/ outsourcing Vendor payment solutions).
- Overall responsibility for Workday Financials day-to-day support and strategic improvements working with the functional business owners within Finance functions, HRIS, and across the College.
- Act as functional lead and overall manager of Financial Services/Budget & Financial Planning technical operations, including Workday Finances, Expenses, and Financial Reporting & Analytics, and other financial management modules and system.
- Act as primary technical owner for Babson College's Financial Services information systems and applications. Liaising with HRIS/HR team, responsible for the success of the division's initiatives through the specification, maintenance, and administration of those systems and applications.
- Responsible for system readiness, administration, and security for all finance-related solutions in production specifically the Adaptive Financial Budget Model.
- Work with end users to understand reporting needs and develop appropriate reports and report delivery timeframes; create complex reports and resolve issues with existing reports; and work in collaboration with HRIS as appropriate.
- Works with members of the Babson community to generate business process understanding to the continuous improvement of financial reporting across campus.
- Works with developers to maintain system interfaces and necessary data integrations with other campus financial database systems.
- Provides user training and ongoing support for finance-related Workday modules and other financial management systems, for efficient use of both existing functionality and emerging functionality changes.
- Ensures a production quality system, by partnering and collaborating with platform manager and other cross functional leads across campus to troubleshoot and resolve production application issues. Coordinate, review, test, and implement ongoing Workday system upgrades or patches.
- Identify and build innovative solutions in Workday to solve business needs.
- Support resolution of issues escalated; manage incidents, track ticket status and partner with teams to resolve issues.
- Drive the execution of Workday configuration; design, develop, test, and implement configuration to meet best practice utilizing the established standards and protocols enhance Workday BP's to support ongoing business process changes.
- Maintain integration related requirements and technical documentation. Monitor and triage integrations (Core Connectors, EIBs, Workday Studio, etc.) with up/down stream systems.
- Gather and consolidate unrefined business requirements from multiple sources and converge them into meaningful functional specifications.
- Act as the liaison to Babson’s Information Technology Services Department (ITSD) on all information technology concerns including support tickets, data use, data integrity, and finance data security.
- Research and assist with the planning and implementation of data administration or other Financial Services projects as necessary.
- Responsible for maintaining proper security to protect confidential information & disposing of CFI in an appropriate manner (i.e., shredding/deleting electronic documents, etc. in conjunction with the Security Administration team).
- Manage Workday Finance account posting rules as needed.
- Responsible for Cost Center Management which includes creating new cost centers, moving cost centers, and ensuring all financial reporting is updated in Workday Finance (as needed and at fiscal year-end).
- Act as the point of contact for Workday Finance inquiries (daily maybe 15 to 20%).
- Manage Workday Finance report validation and testing (as needed) to ensure accuracy in Workday financial reporting.
- Audit Workday Finance BP’s, security, and financial reporting to proactively ensure all Workday Finance Systems and reporting are accurate and prepared for audit (every 6 months).
- Provide guidance and support to Finance Department Subject Matter Experts (SME’s) for all Workday Finance technical and functional needs (daily around 40%).
- Manage a variety of integrations and testing of integration files (daily for integrations 10% and testing as needed especially during bi-annual Workday upgrades and upcoming improvements in Workday financial business processes and new banking/AP P-Card/ outsourcing Vendor payment solutions).
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