Senior Manager, Finance Transformation
Summary
Workiva is seeking a Finance Transformation Senior Manager to join the corporate accounting team. This individual will be responsible for working directly with all areas of the finance organization and across the organization in support of strategic finance initiatives and transformation, project management, and M&A integration.
What You’ll Do
The Senior Manager of Finance Transformation’s responsibilities will vary over time but include:
- Lead eliminating manual work and improving processes by identifying and implementing state-of-the-art technology to support finance and accounting operations, including Record to Report, Treasury, Tax, Order to Cash, FP&A, Source to Pay, and Hire to Retire
- Assess end-to-end finance processes to identify improvement and automation opportunities
- Understand the current state of our finance tech stack and identify areas to integrate/improve our technology and process landscape
- Demonstrate a strong passion for designing and implementing solutions using next-generation technology
- Work with cross-functional business and Finance System teams to gather requirements, drive design, test solutions, build training, and lead implementation of identified technology solutions
- Work with stakeholders and internal audit to implement controls during automation and/ or process changes
- Support agile implementation of finance process automation; highlight risks/ issues and support mitigation/ resolution
- Align, deliver, and report progress on key process KPIs
- Manage stakeholders to understand their requests, determine criticality, assess change impacts, and drive implementation
- Develop an understanding of M&A integration strategy and develop and maintain a detailed integration plan for Accounting and FP&A
- Design and implement Finance M&A integration governance model and reporting cadence; Facilitate Finance Integration project and steer meetings
- Understand the impacts of M&A integration on end-to-end Finance processes
What You'll Need
Minimum Qualifications
- 8+ years of broad general business experience and knowledge across many disciplines including Accounting, FP&A, Benchmarking Performance, and Project Management
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field
Preferred Qualifications
- 6 years of experience with a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 4 years of experience
- 3+ years of project management experience
- Demonstrated experience and previous success leading transformative organizational work.
- Proven ability to work with diverse stakeholders, manage competing agendas and priorities, and translate complex information across functions.
- Strong operational capability, with the ability to oversee the process to deliver projects, timelines, and budgets, and effective customer management skills.
- Highly collaborative, strong interpersonal skills and cross-functional team experience; ability to lead and influence within a matrix.
- Demonstrate agile thinking by easily shifting from business-focused conversations with a financial leader to a technology-focused conversation with a technology team.
- Ability to work globally and cross-functionally to lead change in a fast-paced environment.
Travel Requirement
- Minimal travel
Working Conditions
- Reliable internet access for any time working remotely, as we embrace flexible work arrangements
How You’ll Be Rewarded:
- Salary range in the US:
$126,000.00 - $214,000.00
- A discretionary bonus typically paid annually
- Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire
- 401(k) match and comprehensive employee benefits package
The salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this job in the US. Minimums and maximums may vary based on location. The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience and other relevant factors.
Where You’ll Work
Our values drive how we work and who we hire. You will see these values ingrained in how we support our customers, work with team members, build our products and in the work environment we’ve created.
- Customer Success: Always delight our customers.
- Trust: Rely on each other.
- Integrity: Do the right thing, every time.
- Collaboration: Share resources and work together.
- Innovation: Keep creating solutions and finding better ways.
- Inclusion: Support a diverse community where we all belong.
- Accountability: Be responsible for your success and failure.
We believe our people are our greatest asset, and our unique culture gives employees the opportunity to make an impact everyday. We give our employees the freedom and resources they need—backed by our culture of collaboration and diverse thought—to continue innovating and breaking new ground. We hire talented people with a wide range of skills and experiences who are eager to tackle some of today’s most challenging problems.
At Workiva, you’ll enjoy:
- Fantastic Benefits: With coverage starting day one, choose from competitive health, dental, and vision plans on the largest physician networks available.
- Casual Dress: Workiva has a casual work environment, most people wear jeans to the office.
- Involvement: Ability to participate in Business Employee Resource Groups (Black, Hispanic, Asian, Women, Rainbow (LGBTQIA+), Veterans, Disabilities), Volunteering, Company wide celebrations, and more
- Work-life Balance: We have competitive PTO, VTO and Parental Leave. We encourage employees to spend time enjoying life outside of work.
Learn more about life at Workiva: https://www.linkedin.com/company/workiva/
Learn more about benefits: https://www.workiva.com/careers/benefits
Workiva is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We believe that great minds think differently. We value diversity of backgrounds, beliefs, and interests, and we recognize diversity as an important source of intellectual thought, varied perspective, and innovation. Employment decisions are made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other protected characteristic. We strongly encourage and welcome people from historically marginalized groups to apply.
Workiva is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. To request assistance with the application process, please email talentacquisition@workiva.com.
Workiva supports employees in working where they work best - either from an office or remotely from any location within their country of employment.
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