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TheCollegeBoard Director, Finance Systems Strategy & Optimization - REQ002092_1-3175 in Chicago, Illinois
This job was posted by https://illinoisjoblink.illinois.gov : For more information, please see: https://illinoisjoblink.illinois.gov/jobs/12712228 Director, Finance Systems Strategy & Optimization
College Board - Finance
Location: This is a fully remote role.
Candidates who live near CB offices have the option of being hybrid (Tuesday and Wednesday in office).
Type: This is a full-time position
About the Team
The Operational Excellence (OX) function at the College Board is a high-performing team, serving as a center of excellence in the Finance Division, led by the Executive Director, Operational Excellence. Situated directly under the Chief Financial Officer (CFO), OX brings deep expertise in project management, process architecture, product strategy, data analytics, and strategic communications. We are committed to driving organizational excellence by designing and optimizing integrated systems, enhancing cross-functional collaboration, streamlining complex workflows, and fortifying policy and communication frameworks. Our mission is to empower every function within the Finance Division to operate at peak performance-delivering exceptional value and measurable impact to the College Board.
About the Opportunity
As the Director, Finance Systems Strategy & Optimization, you will lead the strategy, optimization, and continuous improvement of the College Board\'s core financial systems - Workday Financials and Adaptive Planning. You will partner with teams across all Finance functions (Accounting, Procurement, Strategic Finance, and Investments), Technology, and Talent to ensure these systems are fully leveraged to deliver maximum value. You will play a critical role in owning the system roadmaps-taking full responsibility for setting and executing both immediate and long-term action plans. You will lead the investigation and implementation of new functionality, ensuring alignment with the needs and priorities of all major stakeholders. You will have a special focus on AI integration, ensuring our systems utilize the latest and greatest technologies to automate and innovate so Finance teams can work faster and most efficiently and produce more critical insights with ease. Teams will rely on you to build custom dashboards in Workday Financials and maintain financial data integrity to help to drive business decisions. You will create and maintain a suite of staff-friendly resources to ensure system processes are clear and known to all users.
Our ideal candidate is passionate about technology, along with prioritizing and simplifying - implementing the most impactful things and finding powerful solutions for complex problems. The ideal candidate has Workday Financials expertise, an excellent ability to anticipate user needs, an obsession with data, and the ability to manage the technical and people components of projects with attention to detail and speed.
In this role, you will:
Prioritize and implement technical solutions in Workday Financials to meet business needs (40%)
- Translate functional needs into solutions, ensuring that our Workday Financials solutions meet business needs and are scalable, repeatable, automated, leverage AI and new and emerging technologies, etc.
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Maintain and optimize Workday Financials from a technological and usage perspective (30%)
Own business process enhancements and configuration of Workday Financials modules to support optimal user experience
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- Develop and monitor key performance metricsto evaluate the effectiveness of Workday Financials solutions and identify areas for improvement
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Lead product strategy around Finance systems (15%)
- In collaboration with Finance Leadership, define product vision for Workday Financials and Adaptive and recommend short- and long-term strategies, with special focus on AI, to meet the vision and support the goals of both Finance and the College Board overall
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