[Hiring] Manager - Finance Functional Systems @Stanford Health Care

Role Description

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.

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.

Qualifications

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

Requirements

• 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.

Benefits

• Base Pay Scale: Generally starting at $74.73 - $99.04 per hour.
• 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.