Senior Workday Financials Analyst

External: Senior Workday Financials Analyst 

Internal: 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 serve as the execution leader responsible for translating strategic vision into tangible system improvements across the College Board’s core financial platforms—Workday Financials, Adaptive Planning, and Strategic Sourcing – Workday Financials, Adaptive Planning, and Strategic Sourcing. You will focus on driving end-to-end delivery of technical solutions, coordinating complex projects, and ensuring our financial systems operate efficiently, accurately, and in alignment with business needs. 

You will partner with Accounting, Procurement, Strategic Finance, 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 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 be responsible for developing enhanced reporting solutions. 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