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Manager - Finance Functional Systems (Remote)

Stanford Health Care
Remote, USA
Full-time
Manager · 6+ years experience
Remote
Discovered 2 weeks ago
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What you will do

  • Team Leadership & Development:
  • Manage a team of analysts, including workload planning, prioritization, coaching, and performance development.
  • Ensure consistent application of best practices across configuration, testing, documentation, and issue resolution.
  • System Governance & Intake Management:
  • Own the intake, triage, and prioritization process for Finance system requests.
  • Maintain and govern the enhancement backlog, ensuring alignment with Finance Controller’s Office strategy and resource capacity.
  • Establish and enforce governance frameworks for configuration decisions, documentation standards, and change control.
  • Configuration Quality & Controls Oversight:
  • Ensure quality, consistency, and compliance of configuration decisions across financial systems.
  • Oversee system controls including posting rules, validations, approvals, and audit‐readiness documentation.
  • Product Ownership & Roadmap Execution:
  • Serve as the product manager for Workday systems roadmap, defining scope, sequencing, and business value.
  • Ensure roadmap initiatives are captured with clear requirements, developed and tested in accordance with the requirements, and delivered timely.
  • Partner with Finance Controller’s Office leadership to identify opportunities for automation, process redesign, and system optimization.
  • Cross Functional Alignment & Stakeholder Management:
  • Drive alignment across Accounting, AP, Grants, Gifts, Business Assets, Projects, Payroll, Procurement, HR, Treasury, and IT on system changes and financial impacts.
  • Influence stakeholders by presenting options, risks, standardization opportunities, and recommendations in clear business terms.
  • Coordinate with IT and business partners to ensure smooth deployment and adoption of new features.
  • Release Management & Business Readiness:
  • Lead Workday semi‐annual release planning, including impact assessment, regression testing strategy, and stakeholder communication.
  • Ensure the team delivers high quality testing, documentation, and readiness activities for each release cycle.
  • Oversee Workday Financials as the primary platform while also leading implementation, upgrade, and lifecycle management of other systems owned by the Finance Controller’s Office.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.
  • Education Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, or related field.

Experience

  • Qualifications
  • Minimum of 6 years of hands on experience with Workday Financials, including ownership of complex configuration, functional architecture, and cross domain financial processes.
  • Team leadership experience in a systems or finance function is a plus.
  • Demonstrated experience leading Workday enhancements, functional design and redesign and solution architecture, and automation initiatives across Accounting, AP, Payroll, Procurement, and other Finance functions.
  • Experience configuring Workday business process, validations and condition rules, allocations and financial frameworks, and security groups.
  • Experience leading Workday release cycles, including impact analysis, regression testing strategy, stakeholder communication, and business readiness planning.
  • Experience developing advanced and composite reports, calculated fields, and analytics datasets.
  • Experience supporting or managing multiple finance systems in addition to Workday, including participation in system implementations or upgrades.
  • Experience working with IT on Workday integrations, security, and technical escalations.
  • Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
  • Deep expertise in Workday, including configuration leadership across business processes, validations, posting rules, approvals, and reporting logic.
  • Strong understanding of Workday core finance processes - period close, procure to pay, payroll, record to report– and how they are executed, controlled, and optimized within Workday.
  • Strong knowledge of Workday’s data model, including the FDM, cost centers, spend categories, ledger structures, and accounting rules, with the ability to guide consistent and scalable design decisions.
  • Ability to lead solution design and evaluate complex configuration impacts.
  • Ability to manage and develop a high performing functional team.
  • Strong analytical, problem solving, and decision making skills.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels, with the ability to articulate system strategy, risks, and recommendations in clear business terms.
  • Ability to manage competing priorities, multiple projects, deadlines, and release cycles.
  • Strategic mindset, with the ability to connect Finance Controller’s Office priorities to Workday roadmap decisions, automation opportunities, and long‐term architectural direction.
  • Ability to oversee a multi system environment and evaluate how new tools integrate with Workday and Finance processes.
  • Strong knowledge of generative AI, cloud services programming, and database.
  • These principles apply to ALL employees:
  • SHC Commitment to Providing an Exceptional Patient & Family Experience
  • Stanford Health Care sets a high standard for delivering value and an exceptional experience for our patients and families. Candidates for employment and existing employees must adopt and execute C-I-CARE standards for all of patients, families and towards each other. C-I-CARE is the foundation of Stanford’s patient-experience and represents a framework for patient-centered interactions. Simply put, we do what it takes to enable and empower patients and families to focus on health, healing and recovery.
  • You will do this by executing against our three experience pillars, from the patient and family’s perspective:
  • Know Me: Anticipate my needs and status to deliver effective care
  • Show Me the Way: Guide and prompt my actions to arrive at better outcomes and better health
  • Coordinate for Me: Own the complexity of my care through coordination

Preferred Qualifications

  • Team leadership experience in a systems or finance function is a plus.

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