Description
The Finance & Strategy (F&S) Reporting, Enablement & Finance Data Office team is seeking a high-performing Manager/Senior Manager to support the Plan to Perform value stream, including Hyperion retrofit and EPM planning initiatives (e.g., Workday Adaptive). This role operates in a fast-paced, high-growth environment and requires strong expertise in financial planning, reporting, and analytics.
The Senior Manager will partner cross-functionally across Finance & Strategy, IT, and external system integrators to drive modernization of planning and reporting capabilities. This includes identifying dependencies, surfacing risks, and ensuring alignment across initiatives within the Plan to Perform ecosystem.
This role is expected to challenge existing processes and drive scalable solutions through automation and out-of-the-box system capabilities, contributing to a simplified technology architecture and reduced manual intervention. Success requires strong business partnership, communication, and the ability to translate complex requirements into practical, forward-looking solutions.
This position reports to the Director, Reporting and Planning for the EPM initiative.
Responsibilities:
Coordinates and collaborates with F&S, global accounting, tax, business technology, and integration partner teams to meet business needs
Represents the business point of view when designing and collaborating with a business integrator, system integrator, and business technology team
Work with various business advisors to assist in delivering world-class solutions that are highly scalable, secure, and flexible
Develop “to be” processes considering Workday out-of-the-box functionality. Provide recommendations and follow through with communication and implementation of new processes.
Provide critical input and insight into planning system requirements based on process knowledge and future state vision
Identify and prioritize F&S use cases
Coordinates timing of process owner testing efforts and executes unit testing and end-to-end testing. Provides support for user acceptance testing
Influences decision-making and outcomes to support core F&S interests
Communicates and escalates blockers in a timely manner and proposes possible remedies to overcome
Communicate the status of the project to cross-functional team members and management
Participate in internal process improvement initiatives to improve planning, reporting, analytics, analytical tools, and technical aspects of F&S processes
Ensure financial statement and operational risks are mitigated in process design
Required Qualifications:
BA/BS degree preferably in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Mathematics or equivalent relevant experience required. Experience will be evaluated based on the Core Competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.
5+ years of operational experience in managing financial business processes for the Manager level; 8+ years of operational experience in managing financial business processes for the Senior Manager level.
Strong oral and written communication skills are crucial
Ability to think clearly, analyze quantitatively, solve problems, scope business requirements, and prioritize
Ability to identify gaps between desired future state and system functionality and recommend viable alternative options and solutions
Experience in a highly complex global organizations operating within large-scale ERP systems
Strong collaboration and teamwork skills required
Remains adaptable and flexible. Open to continuous change in response to new information, different or unexpected circumstances, and working in an ambiguous business environment
Ability to approach responsibilities with a beginner’s mind and serve as a change champion by communicating, advocating, and championing upcoming changes to impacted stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications:
Workday Financials including Workday Adaptive Planning experience preferred
This role is hybrid and goes into the office 3 days per week.