Senior Manager, Finance Business Architect

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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.  

Finance Business Architecture

• 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.

Data Integrity, Consistency, and AI Readiness

• 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 complete