Senior Manager, Finance Business Architect at Workday

You are an experienced finance professional with a background in business architecture and digital transformation. You excel at translating complex finance proc

Work type: hybrid

Location: USA, CA, Pleasanton

Salary: $201,000/yr

Type: Full-time

Summary

You are an experienced finance professional with a background in business architecture and digital transformation. You excel at translating complex finance processes into scalable technical designs and possess a deep understanding of data integrity and system integration. **Key highlights** Workday offers a salary of $201,000 per year for this role based in Pleasanton, California. You will lead the finance technology roadmap and architect AI-first solutions to improve data quality and operational efficiency. **You might be a good fit if you...** - Possess deep expertise in finance master data management and integration patterns. - Have experience evaluating and rationalizing finance technology ecosystems. - Understand how to map complex data flows between ERP systems and data warehouses. - Can effectively communicate technical architecture requirements to both finance and IT leadership.

Job Description

Your work days are brighter here.

We’re obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, you’ll feel it. Not just in the products we build, but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. We’re in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workmates who’ve got your back. In return, we’ll give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, you’ve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too.

About the Team

The Digital Enablement team within the Finance Transformation Office (FTO) is responsible for enabling Workday Finance's transformation strategy with scalable, intelligent, and trusted digital capabilities. We drive data excellence, automation, and AI-powered solutions that deliver efficiency, and data-driven insights across the Finance organization. Our team is a cornerstone of proving how modern finance operates when powered by Workday Financials, automation, and next-generation AI. If you are energized by working at the intersection of finance, technology, and data, and want to shape the way a world-class finance organization runs, this is the team for you.

About the Role

As the Senior Manager, Finance Business Architect on the Digital Enablement team, you will architect our journey to an AI-first finance function and ensure all the building blocks are in place to maximize value and trust. You sit at the intersection of finance, technology, and data — consolidating and evolving our finance ecosystem, defining our business architecture, and delivering data quality and governance foundations that will make our finance function AI-ready. This is a high-impact, cross-functional role for someone who can translate business needs into technology solutions and who cares deeply about data integrity as a foundation for intelligent decision-making.

Responsibilities:

## Finance Technology Strategy and Consolidation

• Partner with Business Technology on the Finance Technology roadmap, evaluating, rationalizing, and consolidating the tool landscape to reduce redundancy and improve efficiency. You will align with enterprise architecture and partner with Business Technology and Finance leadership to assess platforms and systems and prioritize investments.  

• Serve as the Finance Business Architect, translating finance process requirements into scalable system and data designs. 

• Drive explicit data design needs.

• Source‑of‑truth systems and how data flows between them.

• Define the system and integration patterns that satisfy those needs.

• Determine what sits in Workday vs data warehouse vs planning tool.

• Diagnose which integrations (APIs, files, event streams) are needed and how they’re orchestrated.

• Partner with Process Owners to translate their outcome‑based process design into a coherent data and technology architecture, identifying where today’s systems or data model will prevent us from hitting those outcomes, and defining what needs to change.

• Lead the identification and resolution of data integrity and consistency issues across finance systems and data pipelines.

• Define and enforce standards for finance master data management (MDM) — including charts of accounts, cost centers, legal entities, and intercompany structures — and drive initiatives to ensure finance data is clean, complete, timely, and structured to enable AI and advanced analytics use cases.

• Lead data mapping and integration across systems including Workday, Salesforce, and Snowflake.

• Ensure alignment and consistency of data across systems, reports, and finance processes.

• Build and maintain reconciliation and validation frameworks to ensure data accuracy and completeness.

• Monitor data quality, resolve discrepancies, and drive root cause analysis.

• Help design and implement a Finance Data Governance framework, including policies, ownership models, stewardship accountabilities, and escalation paths partnering with the data governance team within a workday.

• Define data quality dimensions (accuracy, completeness, timeliness, consistency), build monitoring and alerting mechanisms, and establish data quality scorecards and reporting for finance leadership.

• Champion a data-first culture within the Finance organization, embedding governance practices into day-to-day operations.

• 12+ years of experience in finance technology, business architecture, data governance, or a related discipline, with progressive responsibility.

• 5+ years of experience leading and developing high-performing teams.

• Demonstrated understanding of core finance processes — close, consolidation, planning, reporting, and procurement-to-pay, Order-to-cash, FP&A.

• Experience building anomaly detection frameworks within a finance context, including designing detection logic, defining thresholds, and operationalizing alerts to identify data inconsistencies, process exceptions, or financial irregularities.

• Experience translating finance process requirements into scalable system and data designs, including mapping current-state and future-state processes, defining data flows, and documenting system interdependencies and integration patterns

• Skilled in overseeing finance platforms and systems, including establishing tiered support models, escalation paths, and continuous improvement cycles to ensure system stability and performance

• Experience with automation technologies and AI/ML concepts, including what it means for data to be "AI-ready" — structured, labeled, consistent, and governed. Exposure to additional AI or machine learning applications within Finance is valued, such as forecasting models or NLP for invoice processing.

• Expertise in designing data quality frameworks and working with data lineage, master data management, or data catalog tools. Familiarity with data governance tools such as Collibra, Alation, or Microsoft Purview is a plus.

• Experience with modern data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, or dbt, with the ability to collaborate with Data Engineering and Analytics teams to build and validate AI-ready finance data sets and pipelines.

• Skilled in building productive relationships across various teams to drive alignment on shared priorities.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce clear documentation, frameworks, and executive-level presentations that drive decision-making and alignment

• Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous learning across distributed teams.

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below.  Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidate’s compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things. For more information regarding Workday’s comprehensive benefits, please [click here](http://workdaybenefits.com/us/welcome-to-workday-benefits/prospective-workmates).

Primary Location: USA.CA.Pleasanton
 

Primary Location Base Pay Range: $201,000 USD - $301,400 USD
 

Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $169,700 USD - $301,400 USD

Our Approach to Flexible Work
 

With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

Pursuant to applicable Fair Chance law, Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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