Job Description
The ERP Functional Solution Lead will support the Project Director in delivering the overall Finance Transformation objectives through the Workday Core Finance and Adaptive Planning (ERP / EPM) implementation. This role serves as the finance functional design and solutioning lead, ensuring that system design, configuration, and delivery align with business requirements, operating model objectives, and best practices.
Acting as a critical bridge across business, IT, and the system integrator (SI), the role will drive solution integrity, challenge design decisions, and ensure the ERP delivers practical, scalable, and value-driven outcomes for Finance.
Responsibilities
Finance Solutioning & Transformation Lead
- Act as the Finance and Workday Financials SME and solutioning lead across ERP / EPM workstreams, ensuring end-to-end alignment with finance processes (R2R, P2P, O2C, Fixed Assets, etc.) while driving adoption of Workday best practices
- Partner with Finance leadership to define future-state processes, operating model, and system design principles, and challenge SI designs to ensure alignment with business objectives and industry standards
- Drive fit-for-purpose solutions by balancing standardization, scalability, and business practicality, ensuring operational viability post go-live and supporting business validation through testing of Workday solutions
- Drive cross-functional collaboration across Finance, IT and SI to manage dependencies, competing priorities, accelerate decisions, and resolve delivery risks
- Facilitate workshops to gather insights, validate design decisions, and drive alignment
- Identify risks, resolve issues, and make trade-offs balancing business needs, timelines, and constraints
- Support data conversion activities, including mapping and validation of legacy data into Workday
- Partner with integration teams to design, configure, and test integrations with third-party and internal systems
- Provide the PMO with status reports and keep them apprised of overall project status
Masterdata Strategy
- Support the design and alignment of key master data structures required for the new ERP system, including Chart of Accounts (CoA), organizational hierarchies, and reporting dimensions.
- Work with Finance, IT, and business teams to translate current reporting needs into the target ERP data structure and reporting framework.
- Facilitate discussions to review and simplify existing account, cost center, and lineofbusiness structures for the future state.
- Support the definition of line of business (LOB) and reporting hierarchies within the ERP system to enable consistent financial and operational reporting across the organization.
- Coordinate with data, finance, and system implementation teams to ensure master data structures are properly configured and integrated within the ERP design.
- Establish master data governance processes, including ownership, maintenance procedures, and change control for key finance and operational data elements.
- Plan for data migration activities, including mapping legacy data structures to the new ERP master data design.
- Monitor and escalate datarelated risks that could impact reporting accuracy or system delivery.
Implementation Oversight & Delivery Assurance
- Lead business-side execution across key ERP lifecycle activities:
- Requirements definition and fit-gap analysis
- Solution validation and configuration review
- Testing (SIT, UAT) and defect resolution
- Cutover and deployment readiness
- Ensure SI deliverables meet agreed business requirements, design standards, and quality expectations
- Validate end-to-end process flows, ensuring integration, controls, and reporting integrity
- Drive business readiness, user adoption, and operational handover
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree-level or equivalent.
- Formal project management methodology qualifications, PMP certification preferred.
- Workday Financials Expertise
- At least 5 years implementing Financial, and/or Expense Management ERP solutions (Workday preferred) as either a consultant or customer
- Previous consulting experience with a consulting/software company
- Functional expertise in at least one of the following areas: General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Billing, Procurement, Asset Management, Projects, Expense Management, Financial Reporting, or Budgeting
- Self-motivated, organized, forward-thinking, resulted orientated and able to manage priorities effectively.
- Ability to manage multiple complex cross-functional programs at once, work to tight deadlines.
- Strong communications and interpersonal skills in a multicultural environment with a good command of spoken and written English to influence and motivate.
- Cross functional relationship building is paramount as the role must be able to work with and influence both internal and external individuals not directly under their control.
- Vocal and confident to voice constructive challenges to business assumptions.
- Strong analytical skills, meticulous, innovative and resourceful to resolve issues.
- Good business acumen with the ability to synthesize complex data from different sources into meaningful insights and actionable information to stakeholders.
- Demonstrate proficiency in the use and application of project management technology tools and continually seek opportunities to develop your skillset.
- Proficient in project management tools and Microsoft office (Teams, Excel, Word, Powerpoint).
Key Results Area
- Deliver a fit-for-purpose ERP/EPM solution aligned to end-to-end finance processes, ensuring strong adoption, operational viability, and minimal post go-live rework
- Ensure high-quality solution design and delivery by effectively challenging SI outputs, maintaining strong governance, and achieving implementation milestones within scope, timeline, and quality expectations
- Drive business value realization through standardized processes, robust master data, and adoption of best practices, enabling improved financial controls, reporting, and decision support
