Workday Technical Leader (Remote)

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Brown & Brown is an independent insurance intermediary that through its licensed subsidiaries provides a variety of insurance and reinsurance products and services to corporate, public entity, institutional, trade, professional, association, and individual clients. Headquartered in Daytona Beach, Florida, offices are located across the United States, with products and services offered through four major business divisions. We are listed on the NYSE at BRO. Our drive to be the best has made Brown & Brown one of the largest and most respected independent insurance intermediaries in the nation, with over 75 years of continuous service. The Company is ranked as the sixth largest such organization in the United States and seventh in the World by Business Insurance magazine.

The Workday Technical Leader will be responsible for full technical ownership of the Workday platform, overseeing the implementation, configuration, and support of Workday Financial and HCM modules. This role requires a hands-on leader who can provide technical guidance, drive strategic initiatives, and ensure the successful deployment and optimization of Workday solutions. The ideal candidate will have the ability to develop strong relationships with senior leaders and stakeholders within the organization and collaborate effectively with implementation partners.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Build, mentor, and lead a team to support the Workday platform, ensuring Financial and HCM project completion and success while preventing disruption to the existing system and operation. This team will consist of both in-house teammates and contract resources.

• Take full technical ownership of the Workday platform.

• Act as the primary point of contact for the Workday platform and a partner to the businesses utilizing the HCM and Financials capabilities.

• Develop and maintain strong relationships with senior leaders and stakeholders within the organization, approaching collaborations with a proactive and cooperative mindset.

• Identify strategies, risks, and options, recommending approaches and mitigations to meet client/functional requirements.

• Partner with the business to deploy new modules and features, ensuring the full leverage of our Workday investment.

• Advise internal partners on industry standards and best practices.

• Design and implement a robust release management process to ensure Workday releases are thoroughly reviewed and tested prior to implementation.

• Oversee the production support managed service provider and explore opportunities to insource work.

• Implement effective and efficient monitoring for 100+ integrations across HCM and Financials.

• Forge and lead strong relationships with vendor partners and implementation partners.

• Develop standard operating procedure documentation to ensure cross-training and eliminate single points of failure.

• Ensure all system changes to platform or security configurations adhere to internal controls.

• Develop a strong and fit-for-purpose analytics capabilities to support our Finance, HCM, Technology and Operational needs.

• Manage related systems such as People Analytics, Prism, Adaptive, Accounting Center, and Procurement modules alongside Workday.

• Assessing IT general controls and IT dependent controls

• Basic knowledge of key business processes preferred (Order to Cash, Inventory, Fixed Assets, Consolidation, etc.)

• Supporting efforts to align IT with business objectives.

• Assessing Service Organization Control (SOC) reports based on SSAE16 / AT801 and Trust Services Criteria (TSC) for SOC 2 reports.

• Communicating complex, technical IT information concisely to non-technical personnel.

Required:

• A minimum of 10 years of experience with a detailed understanding of the Workday ERP System, emphasizing one or more modules.

• Extensive knowledge of Financial Management functions (accounts payable, accounts receivable, budgeting, fixed assets, forecasting, general ledger, etc.).

• Extensive knowledge of Human Capital Management functions (benefits, compensation, performance management, talent acquisition, recruiting, onboarding, time and attendance, etc.).

• Experience with Supply Chain Management functions (requisition inventory management, sourcing and contracting, purchasing management).

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in a leadership role.

• Completion of multiple full implementations with Workday Financials and HCM.