Workday Financials Lead at Kyriba in Boston, MA

Summary: Kyriba is a global fintech leader empowering CFOs and finance teams with cloud-based treasury, payments, and risk management solutions. The Workday Financials Lead will serve as the primary functional leader during the implementation of Workday Financials, focusing on deployment and optimization of finance-related processes across the organization. Responsibilities: - 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 - 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 - 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 - Coordinate with Tax and local Finance to ensure proposed designs meet e‑invoicing mandates and statutory requirements - 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 - 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 - Own the Workday Financials roadmap aligned to CFO priorities; manage backlog, quarterly releases, and value realization - Design and maintain complex configurations (cost centers, intercompany billing, allocations, revenue recognition/allocation as applicable); configure, test, validate, and deploy Business Process updates - Evaluate and adopt Workday feature releases; run impact assessments, regression testing, and stakeholder communications - Champion Workday’s innovation roadmap; evaluate AI/ML features for reconciliation, anomaly detection, and forecasting in line with Kyriba Finance objectives - Enable reporting and dashboards using Workday Report Writer/Composite, Prism Analytics, and Adaptive Planning to provide real-time, multi-dimensional insight - Own finance master data stewardship (values, validation rules, exception reporting); role-based security, and audit evidence processes with IT Security and Internal Audit - Serve as escalation point for Finance Systems and Finance Ops; coach team members and drive continuous learning Required Qualifications: - Significant Workday Financials experience as a functional lead/product owner or senior consultant, including at least one full-lifecycle implementation - Deep functional knowledge of Core Financials (GL, AP, AR), Expenses, and Procurement; hands-on configuration and reporting experience - Solid understanding of US GAAP/IFRS concepts, intercompany, consolidations, multi-entity/multi-currency, tax/VAT, and statutory reporting - Comfortable balancing global standards with local requirements across multiple jurisdictions - Skilled at framing options, trade-offs, and recommendations to senior Finance leaders and cross-functional stakeholders - Strong prioritization, risk management, and execution discipline in fast-paced, ambiguous environments Preferred Qualifications: - Workday certification(s) in Financials/Expenses/Procurement or Workday Pro highly preferred - 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 Required Skills: Workday Financials expertise, Full-lifecycle implementation Important Skills: Workday certification, US GAAP/IFRS knowledge, Workday integrations Nice-to-Have Skills: Risk management Benefits: Variable compensation (eg. performance bonus or commission-based plan), Long-term incentive, Comprehensive range of health, welfare and wellbeing benefits designed to support both your professional and personal life