Finance Lead, Workday ERP Transformation

Emory University • Atlanta, GA

15h • Hybrid

About The Position

The Finance Lead for Workday ERP Transformation is accountable for the finance workstream and serves as the primary functional decision-maker across Emory University and Emory Healthcare. Reporting to the VP for ERP Transformation, the role leads the design and delivery of Workday Financial Management, balancing enterprise standards with University fund and grant accounting and Healthcare financial requirements. The Finance Lead directs the assigned finance team and advisers and escalates decisions or risks requiring broader program action.

The role owns finance workstream scope, priorities, deliverables, dependencies, decisions, risks, and readiness in coordination with the ERP PMO. As functional product owner for Workday Financial Management, the Finance Lead approves future-state finance design, including the enterprise chart of accounts and financial data model. The position leads finance participation throughout requirements, configuration reviews, data conversion and reconciliation, testing, cutover, deployment readiness, and stabilization, while coordinating with functional and technical leads, Internal Audit, Change Management, Workday, consultants, and finance subject matter advisers.

Position tasks are generally required to be performed in person at an Emory University location. Remote-work-from-home days may be granted at department discretion, and Emory reserves the right to change remote-work status with notice to the employee.

Requirements

• 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, with strong knowledge of general ledger, chart of accounts, reporting, and internal controls.
• Experience delivering a large-scale finance transformation or enterprise cloud financial system.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders, resolve competing priorities, make enterprise decisions, and communicate complex financial and system topics clearly.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree.
• CPA, CMA, or comparable professional credential.
• Direct Workday Financial Management experience.
• Full life-cycle Workday Financial Management implementation experience.
• Experience in higher education, academic medicine, or healthcare, including fund or grant accounting and multi-entity financial structures.

Responsibilities

• 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 and approve future-state finance design, including the 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, promote standardized processes, and document the rationale and approval for material exceptions.
• Ensure the solution addresses financial controls, segregation of duties, policy and SOX-style impacts, security, data integrity, and regulatory and management reporting.
• Lead finance participation in requirements, configuration reviews, data conversion and reconciliation, testing, cutover, deployment readiness, and stabilization.
• Coordinate with other 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior