Workday Financials Lead

Kyriba•New York, MA

22h

About The Position

Kyriba is a global fintech leader empowering CFOs and finance teams with cloud-based treasury, payments, and risk management solutions. We serve 3,000+ customers worldwide, managing $15 trillion in payments annually and helping businesses optimize liquidity performance across the enterprise. We're on a mission to become the most sought-after cloud technology company globally. We think big, innovate relentlessly, and challenge the status quo every day. If you are a problem-solver who’s ready to push boundaries and achieve more than you thought possible-you'll find an exceptional career within an extraordinary business. Kyriba is embarking on a greenfield implementation of Workday Financials. The Workday Finance Lead will be our internal functional leader through deployment, partnering closely with our implementation partner to deliver a global rollout. Post go-live (target 2027), the Workday Finance Lead will own the functional roadmap and ongoing optimization of Finance, Expenses, and Procurement in Workday across all Kyriba legal entities, driving automation, controls, and real-time insight.

Requirements

Workday expertise: Deep functional knowledge of Core Financials (GL, AP, AR), Expenses, and Procurement; hands-on configuration and reporting experience.
Finance operations: Solid understanding of US GAAP/IFRS concepts, intercompany, consolidations, multi-entity/multi-currency, tax/VAT, and statutory reporting.
Global mindset: Comfortable balancing global standards with local requirements across multiple jurisdictions.
Communication and influence: Skilled at framing options, trade-offs, and recommendations to senior Finance leaders and cross-functional stakeholders.
Delivery excellence: Strong prioritization, risk management, and execution discipline in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.
Experience: Significant Workday Financials experience as a functional lead/product owner or senior consultant, including at least one full-lifecycle implementation.

Nice To Haves

Certifications: Workday certification(s) in Financials/Expenses/Procurement or Workday Pro highly preferred.
Integrations and tools: Familiarity with Workday EIB/Studio/Cloud Connect; experience with Adaptive Planning, NetSuite, and/or MuleSoft (or similar iPaaS) is a strong plus.
Exposure to Prism Analytics, role-based security/SoD design, and audit/SOX processes.

Responsibilities

Functional leadership: Serve as Kyriba’s primary functional voice across Workday Core Financials, Procurement, and Expenses; represent business requirements, validate partner designs, and steward global design decisions and localization patterns.
Global design: Partner with the implementation team on FDM/Chart of Accounts, fiscal calendars, multi-entity, and multi-currency; review and approve intercompany, consolidation, and tax design recommendations with Controllership.
Data and legacy migration: Co-own data readiness and integrity; define acceptance criteria and reconciliation rules, lead mapping reviews, and sign off on conversion outcomes as part of legacy decommissioning.
Compliance and localization: Coordinate with Tax and local Finance to ensure proposed designs meet e‑invoicing mandates and statutory requirements.
Process consulting: Lead Kyriba-side workshops with Finance COEs for P2P, O2C, and R2R; synthesize requirements, prioritize trade‑offs, and provide decision records to guide the implementation partner’s scalable design.
Testing and quality: Define test strategy and scenarios; oversee SIT/UAT execution and defect triage with the partner; manage cutover readiness criteria and hypercare success measures on behalf of Finance.
Roadmap and value delivery: Own the Workday Financials roadmap aligned to CFO priorities; manage backlog, quarterly releases, and value realization.
Solution optimization: Design and maintain complex configurations (cost centers, intercompany billing, allocations, revenue recognition/allocation as applicable); configure, test, validate, and deploy Business Process updates.
Release management: Evaluate and adopt Workday feature releases; run impact assessments, regression testing, and stakeholder communications.
Innovation and AI: Champion Workday’s innovation roadmap; evaluate AI/ML features for reconciliation, anomaly detection, and forecasting in line with Kyriba Finance objectives.
Analytics: Enable reporting and dashboards using Workday Report Writer/Composite, Prism Analytics, and Adaptive Planning to provide real-time, multi-dimensional insight.
Governance, security, and data: Own finance master data stewardship (values, validation rules, exception reporting); role-based security, and audit evidence processes with IT Security and Internal Audit.
Partnerships and mentorship: Serve as escalation point for Finance Systems and Finance Ops; coach team members and drive continuous learning.