Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley is a healthcare organization committed to delivering exceptional patient and family experiences. The Manager - Finance Functional Systems leads the Finance Systems team, manages Workday Financials as a product, and oversees governance, configuration, roadmap execution, releases, and cross-functional alignment across Finance, HR, Supply Chain, and IT.
Responsibilities
- 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
- 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
- Ensure quality, consistency, and compliance of configuration decisions across financial systems
- Oversee system controls including posting rules, validations, approvals, and audit‑readiness documentation
- 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
- 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
- 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
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, or related field
- Minimum of 6 years of hands on experience with Workday Financials, including ownership of complex configuration, functional architecture, and cross domain financial processes
- 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
- 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
- Team leadership experience in a systems or finance function is a plus
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