Workday Financials Lead

Role Overview

• Serve as Kyriba’s primary functional voice across Workday Core Financials, Procurement, and Expenses; represent business requirements, validate partner designs, and steward global design decisions and localization patterns.
• Partner with the implementation team on FDM/Chart of Accounts, fiscal calendars, multi-entity, and multi-currency; review and approve intercompany, consolidation, and tax design recommendations with Controllership.
• Co-own data readiness and integrity; define acceptance criteria and reconciliation rules, lead mapping reviews, and sign off on conversion outcomes as part of legacy decommissioning.
• Coordinate with Tax and local Finance to ensure proposed designs meet e‑invoicing mandates and statutory requirements.
• Lead Kyriba-side workshops with Finance COEs for P2P, O2C, and R2R; synthesize requirements, prioritize trade‑offs, and provide decision records to guide the implementation partner’s scalable design.
• Define test strategy and scenarios; oversee SIT/UAT execution and defect triage with the partner; manage cutover readiness criteria and hypercare success measures on behalf of Finance.
• Own the Workday Financials roadmap aligned to CFO priorities; manage backlog, quarterly releases, and value realization.
• Design and maintain complex configurations (cost centers, intercompany billing, allocations, revenue recognition/allocation as applicable); configure, test, validate, and deploy Business Process updates.
• Evaluate and adopt Workday feature releases; run impact assessments, regression testing, and stakeholder communications.
• Champion Workday’s innovation roadmap; evaluate AI/ML features for reconciliation, anomaly detection, and forecasting in line with Kyriba Finance objectives.
• Enable reporting and dashboards using Workday Report Writer/Composite, Prism Analytics, and Adaptive Planning to provide real-time, multi-dimensional insight.
• Own finance master data stewardship (values, validation rules, exception reporting); role-based security, and audit evidence processes with IT Security and Internal Audit.
• Serve as escalation point for Finance Systems and Finance Ops; coach team members and drive continuous learning.

Requirements

• Significant Workday Financials experience as a functional lead/product owner or senior consultant, including at least one full-lifecycle implementation.
• Workday certification(s) in Financials/Expenses/Procurement or Workday Pro highly preferred.
• Familiarity with Workday EIB/Studio/Cloud Connect; experience with Adaptive Planning, NetSuite, and/or MuleSoft (or similar iPaaS) is a strong plus.
• Deep functional knowledge of Core Financials (GL, AP, AR), Expenses, and Procurement; hands-on configuration and reporting experience.
• Solid understanding of US GAAP/IFRS concepts, intercompany, consolidations, multi-entity/multi-currency, tax/VAT, and statutory reporting.
• Comfortable balancing global standards with local requirements across multiple jurisdictions.
• Skilled at framing options, trade-offs, and recommendations to senior Finance leaders and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong prioritization, risk management, and execution discipline in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.

Tech Stack

• Cloud

Benefits

• comprehensive range of health, welfare and wellbeing benefits designed to support both your professional and personal life.
• variable compensation (eg. performance bonus or commission-based plan) and/or a long-term incentive.