Senior Manager, Finance Business Architect

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About the Team

About the Role

As the Senior Manager Finance Business Architect on the Digital Enablement team you will architect our journey to an AI-first finance function and ensure all the building blocks are in place to maximize value and trust. You sit at the intersection of finance technology and data consolidating and evolving our finance ecosystem defining our business architecture and delivering data quality and governance foundations that will make our finance function AI-ready. This is a high-impact cross-functional role for someone who can translate business needs into technology solutions and who cares deeply about data integrity as a foundation for intelligent decision-making.

Responsibilities:

Finance Technology Strategy and Consolidation

• Partner with Business Technology on the Finance Technology roadmap evaluating rationalizing and consolidating the tool landscape to reduce redundancy and improve efficiency. You will align with enterprise architecture and partner with Business Technology and Finance leadership to assess platforms and systems and prioritize investments.

Finance Business Architecture

• Serve as the Finance Business Architect translating finance process requirements into scalable system and data designs.

• Drive explicit data design needs.

• Sourceoftruth systems and how data flows between them.

• Define the system and integration patterns that satisfy those needs.

• Determine what sits in Workday vs data warehouse vs planning tool.

• Diagnose which integrations (APIs files event streams) are needed and how theyre orchestrated.

• Partner with Process Owners to translate their outcomebased process design into a coherent data and technology architecture identifying where todays systems or data model will prevent us from hitting those outcomes and defining what needs to change.

Data Integrity Consistency and AI Readiness

• Lead the identification and resolution of data integrity and consistency issues across finance systems and data pipelines.

• Define and enforce standards for finance master data management (MDM) including charts of accounts cost centers legal entities and intercompany structures and drive initiatives to ensure finance data is clean complete timely and structured to enable AI and advanced analytics use cases.

• Lead data mapping and integration across systems including Workday Salesforce and Snowflake.

• Ensure alignment and consistency of data across systems reports and finance processes.

• Build and maintain reconciliation and validation frameworks to ensure data accuracy and completeness.

• Monitor data quality resolve discrepancies and drive root cause analysis.

Data Quality and Governance Frameworks

• Help design and implement a Finance Data Governance framework including policies ownership models stewardship accountabilities and escalation paths partnering with the data governance team within a workday.

• Define data quality dimensions (accuracy completeness timeliness consistency) build monitoring and alerting mechanisms and establish data quality scorecards and reporting for finance leadership.

• Champion a data-first culture within the Finance organization embedding governance practices into day-to-day operations.

About You

Required Qualifications:

• 12 years of experience in finance technology business architecture data governance or a related discipline with progressive responsibility.

• 5 years of experience leading and developing high-performing teams.

• Demonstrated understanding of core finance processes close consolidation planning reporting and procurement-to-pay Order-to-cash FP&A.

• Experience building anomaly detection frameworks within a finance context including designing detection logic defining thresholds and operationalizing alerts to identify data inconsistencies process exceptions or financial irregularities.

Other Qualifications:

• Experience translating finance process requirements into scalable system and data designs including mapping current-state and future-state processes defining data flows and documenting system interdependencies and integration patterns

• Skilled in overseeing finance platforms and systems including establishing tiered support models escalation paths and continuous improvement cycles to ensure system stability and performance

• Experience with automation technologies and AI/ML concepts including what it means for data to be AI-ready structured labeled consistent and governed. Exposure to additional AI or machine learning applications within Finance is valued such as forecasting models or NLP for invoice processing.

• Expertise in designing data quality frameworks and working with data lineage master data management or data catalog tools. Familiarity with data governance tools such as Collibra Alation or Microsoft Purview is a plus.

• Experience with modern data platforms such as Snowflake Databricks or dbt with the ability to collaborate with Data Engineering and Analytics teams to build and validate AI-ready finance data sets and pipelines.

• Skilled in building productive relationships across various teams to drive alignment on shared priorities.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to produce clear documentation frameworks and executive-level presentations that drive decision-making and alignment

• Foster a culture of innovation accountability and continuous learning across distributed teams.

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The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidates compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including but not limited to geography experience skills job duties and business need among other things. For more information regarding Workdays comprehensive benefits please click here.

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