Head of Enterprise Finance Technology Products

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At Workday, it all began with a conversation over breakfast. When our founders met at a sunny California diner, they came up with an idea to revolutionize the enterprise software market. And when we began to rise, one thing that really set us apart was our culture. A culture which was driven by our value of putting our people first. And ever since, the happiness, development, and contribution of every Workmate is central to who we are. Our Workmates believe a healthy employee-centric, collaborative culture is the essential mix of ingredients for success in business. That’s why we look after our people, communities and the planet while still being profitable. Feel encouraged to shine, however that manifests: you don’t need to hide who you are. You can feel the energy and the passion, it's what makes us unique. Inspired to make a brighter work day for all and transform with us to the next stage of our growth journey? Bring your brightest version of you and have a brighter work day here.

About the Team

At Workday, we help the world’s largest organizations adapt to what’s next by bringing finance, HR, and planning into a single enterprise cloud. We work hard, and we’re serious about what we do. But we like to have fun, too. We put people first, celebrate diversity, drive innovation, and do good in the communities where we live and work.

The Workday on Workday product team mission is to champion business and customer success through Workday technology. Our objectives are to understand the unique needs of our users and deliver innovative solutions to drive a delightful user experience and impactful business outcomes both at Workday and for our customers. How do we build these delightful experiences? Our core team principle is to cultivate empowered, autonomous, diverse teams with freedom and support to experiment, celebrate growth and learning and drive groundbreaking innovation leading to a brighter Workday for all.

About the Role

The goal of this role is to define and lead teams to implement an end to end solution strategy across the Enterprise Finance Product teams. This strategy will thread together Workday products, custom solution innovations and third party technology to build a best in class solution, driving differentiated business value and delightful user experiences. This position is an essential member of the Leadership team, reporting to the VP Workday on Workday.
 

What you will do

The Head of Enterprise Finance Technology Products contributes a solid knowledge of the various constraints of the business such as services, finance, legal, and privacy as well as a deep knowledge of our users and the data about how our customers engage with our products. The Head of Enterprise Finance Technology Products will track Tech industry trends and the technology landscape and use these inputs to define a Solution vision, strategy and roadmap.

This role will lead a highly effective Product team comprised of product managers, and implementers to:

• Partner with finance business partners to define and implement an innovative Finance Solution Strategy and roadmap
• Use qualitative and quantitative data to identity key opportunities to drive differentiated business value and market leading innovation using emergent technologies
• Work closely with leaders across Industry Go-To-Market, Strategy, Services and Sales teams to define and evangelize Tech Industry solution map and value proposition
• Use data to uncover areas within the business to drive performance, unlock value and improve execution
• Define and implement a scalable framework to track core business metrics related to the product
• Drive initiatives in collaboration with senior management, leading end-to-end accountability from vision through planning and impact; raise and track issues and challenges, remove barriers, and resolve issues involving appropriate team members and raise to appropriate level when required.

About You

Basic Qualifications:

• 10+ years experience in a leadership role working on technology-powered products as a product manager, product strategist or implementation consultant
• A strong sense of product and customer experience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, comfortable speaking publicly to large audiences of senior leaders and executives
• Experience collecting, synthesizing, and prioritizing user input from multiple sources (users, leaders, competitors, market factors, partners, engineering, management, etc.).
• Ability to identify solutions to hard problems with many constraints, assess risks, and lay out your argument in a well-structured, data-informed, written narrative.

Other Qualifications

• Exposure to accounting principles and their a