ERP Financials Lead

Role: ERP Financials Lead / Technical Lead

Location:  Local to Cary NC

(100% onsite Role)

Job Description:

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills:

➢ Deep knowledge of Workday Financial Management modules:

• General Ledger (GL)
• Financial Reporting & Analytics
• Hands-on configuration experience with Business Processes, Security, and Workday Setup.
• Strong understanding of Workday Reporting (Advanced Reports, Composite, Matrix, Workday Prism).

➢ People soft knowledge is mandatory.

➢ Strong Financials data reconciliation experience in any ERP system.

➢ Strong Experience in any ERP system / ERP models.

➢ Solid grounding in accounting principles (GAAP, STAT)

➢ Understanding of multi-entity, multi-currency consolidations.

➢ Experience with audit, compliance, and controls (SOX, internal controls, statutory reporting).

➢ Managed multiple Workday releases and have enabled uptake of new features

➢ Strong expertise in Workday Studio, RAAS, WQL, (SOAP/REST API).

➢ Prefer candidates with finance data hub / integration exposure (not just pure Workday config)

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Should lead the functional team as functional way and lead as Technical delivery lead with key implementation experience using ERP (Oracle or SAP).
• Support Chart of Accounts extraction, accounting rules, allocations, and financial reporting structures.
• Drive data conversion and validation activities, including open balances etc.
• Collaborate with integration teams to ensure seamless connectivity between Workday and external systems (Azure Databricks).
• Develop and test Workday reports, dashboards, and analytics for Finance leadership.
• Manage business process configuration (approvals, workflows, controls) to align with compliance and audit needs.
• Perform system testing (unit, end-to-end, UAT support), defect resolution, and cutover planning.
• Work closely with Workday Solution Architects to ensure design consistency and scalability.
• Provide knowledge transfer, training, and documentation for finance super-users and business teams.
• Ensure regulatory and compliance alignment (SOX, GAAP, IFRS) in Workday configurations.
• Support post go-live stabilization and hyper care, ensuring smooth adoption of Workday Finance.
• Manage Workday periodic releases and providing customers with insight into new features and deprecated features and work with teams to solution the same problem.

Generic Managerial Skills:

• Stakeholder management – engaging CFOs, Controllers, Finance leadership.
• Excellent communication & presentation skills for business and technical audiences.
• Strong project management and Agile/Scrum methodology experience.
• Change management skills – guiding adoption of new Workday processes.
• Mentoring/leading functional consultants and developers.