Reporting and Testing Lead - WorkDay Financials

This is is a HYBRID full time position.

MUST be local to Boston.

PLEASE no third parties

Our client is transitioning our Corporate Accounting and related financial systems from a Microsoft Great Plains general ledger platform to Workday Financials. This role will provide leadership for a multi-year finance transformation program that will update their business processes and the supporting technology solutions to enable our organizational growth goals and objectives.

The ideal candidate is someone who:

• Consistently performs with a positive and proactive attitude to understand business needs and contributes to technology solutions that achieve business and client objectives.
• Builds and maintains effective working relationships with internal and external teammates.
• Operates with a continuous learning and improvement approach to deliver high quality and timely outcomes.
• Collaborates optimally with diverse roles and teams both in person and remote to achieve collective goals.

What you will do:

• Collaborate with business and technology teammates to define, develop, test and implement the reporting needs that will enable corporate accounting financial management.
• Define and develop reporting capabilities that enable business processes and workflows.
• Configure and test the reporting needs of users by creating and deploying required reports.
• Lead the reporting and testing capabilities required to support the transition from current Microsoft Great Plains corporate accounting system to Workday Financials.
• Engage business, technology and external partners to develop the technology solution that enables our corporate accounting and related financial system processes and workflows.
• Leads the development of solutions alternatives and prioritization to support delivering the highest business value.

What you bring:

• Proven capabilities and experience in three or more of the following areas: Enterprise Systems Strategy, Architecture, Planning, Development, Program/Project Management, Implementation and Operational Support.
• Background in Financial Services and/or financial applications; including experience with transactional systems.
• Experience with Agile software development, traditional project management, and Six Sigma methodologies and techniques.
• Successful results with large or sophisticated programs, projects and processes from initiation through implementation.
• Effective interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal, including experience translating business and technical concepts or decisions with diverse audiences.
• Strengths with analytical, data, problem solving and collaboration skills.
• Attention to detail and quality to fulfill responsibilities.
• Experience leading highly engaged teams that produce consistently strong results that meet and exceed business objectives.