Finance Manager

Summary:

This is a seasoned professional role that provides subject matter expertise and functional guidance for day-to-day support and development. The ideal candidate will have experience with expense management, configuration, security administration, business process configuration, and integration building.

• Provide financial operations subject matter functional expertise for day-to-day support and development including business process configuration, integrations, data transmission, testing, and troubleshooting.
• Ensure data accuracy and ongoing enhancements of new financial features/functionality.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to understand pain points, prioritize requirements, and identify opportunities to improve processes and gain efficiency by leveraging financial functionality.
• Lead finance-enabled workstreams to design, configure, test, and deploy best practice-based business processes and solutions.
• Be the primary point of contact for data gathering, testing, and communication with key stakeholders and internal teams.
• Perform tasks such as understanding business requirements, configuring the financial solution, demonstrating configurations through the development of testing systems, assisting the business in testing the financial solution.
• Be comfortable and confident in gathering configuration requirements and problem-solving with business stakeholders.
• Assist with broadening internal knowledge of financial configuration through hands-on training to cross-functional teams.
• Provide a proactive interface between business partner groups and the financial team to ensure effective coordination and delivery of financial implementations.
• Build reports to support both domestic and international finance activities for various areas of the financial product.
• Ability to problem-solve and propose multiple solutions for business requirements within finance.
• Manage financial upgrades and implement new and revised functionality within finance.
• Partner with HR teams to analyze business needs and translate them into technical requirements and solutions within the financial ecosystem.
• Optimize business processes by enhancing workflows, automating manual tasks, and providing actionable insights through data reporting and analytics.
• Creates and maintains clear, comprehensive, documented business requirements for requested changes, enhancements, or projects; accountable for articulating functional processes from beginning to end and providing thought leadership on functionality and design.

Required Skills:

• 6+ years of financial operations experience with proficiency in the use of Workday HCM.
• Excellent knowledge of financial operation configuration, security administration, business process configuration, and EIB (Enterprise Integration Builder).
• Proven financial operations functional expertise Expense module; awareness of what financial software can and cannot do, familiarity with delivered functionality and reports, and experience performing straightforward administrative tasks in financial operations.
• Participate in financial releases, assessing new features and recommending adoption strategies for finance modules.
• Ensure day-to-day systems support is balanced with strategic enhancements and projects related to finance and Integrations.
• Responsible for the thorough testing and analysis of new financial features and functionality and participates in release planning; accountable for regression testing, unit testing, User Acceptance testing, and pre-launch testing/sign-off for new features or enhancements.
• Experience with financial Studio, financial Extend, and integration development.
• Ability to customize the financial product and desire to learn about and expand your expertise to encompass new areas of finance Management.
• Hands-on experience developing and enhancing custom reports and dashboards in SaaS or enterprise systems.
• Ability to work in a diverse, fast-paced environment and effectively collaborate across teams.
• Project management experience supporting the deployment of features and functionality.
• Strong analytical, multitasking, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both a technical audience and business users.
• Experience in Agile development environments: ServiceNow, Jira.