Manager - Finance Functional Systems (Remote)

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A Brief Overview
The Manager - Finance Functional Systems provides leadership for the Finance Systems team and steers a unified strategy that supports the Finance Controller's Office. Acting as the product manager for Finance systems, the role manages intake and prioritization, guides roadmap and governance activities, ensures configuration excellence, and collaborates with Finance Controller's Office, Supply Chain, HR and IT to enable scalable, compliant, and efficient financial systems and operations.
Locations
Stanford Health Care
What you will do

• Team Leadership & Development:

• 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.

• System Governance & Intake Management:

• 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.

• Configuration Quality & Controls Oversight:

• Ensure quality, consistency, and compliance of configuration decisions across financial systems.

• Oversee system controls including posting rules, validations, approvals, and audit‑readiness documentation.

• Product Ownership & Roadmap Execution:

• 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.

• Cross Functional Alignment & Stakeholder Management:

• 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.

• Release Management & Business Readiness:

• 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.

Education Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, or related field.

Experience Qualifications

• Minimum of 6 years of hands on experience with Workday Financials, including ownership of complex configuration, functional architecture, and cross domain financial processes.

• Team leadership experience in a systems or finance function is a plus.

• 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.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• 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.

These principles apply to ALL employees:
SHC Commitment to Providing an Exceptional Patient & Family Experience
Stanford Health Care sets a high standard for delivering value and an exceptional experience for our patients and families. Candidates for employment and existing employees must adopt and execute C-I-CARE standards for all of patients, families and towards each other. C-I-CARE is the foundation of Stanford’s patient-experience and represents a framework for patient-centered interactions. Simply put, we do what it takes to enable and empower patients and families to focus on health, healing and recovery.
You will do this by executing against our three experience pillars, from the patient and family’s perspective:

• Know Me: Anticipate my needs and status to deliver effective care

• Show Me the Way: Guide and prompt my actions to arrive at better outcomes and better health

• Coordinate for Me: Own the complexity of my care through coordination

Equal Opportunity Employer Stanford Health Care (SHC) strongly values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity and non-discrimination in all of its policies and practices, including the area of employment. Accordingly, SHC does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity and/or expression, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or disability, or the perception of any of the above. People of all genders, members of all racial and ethnic groups, people with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply. Qualified applicants with criminal convictions will be considered after an individualized assessment of the conviction and the job requirements.

The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, internal equity, experience, education, specialty and training. This pay scale is not a promise of a particular wage.