Assistant Director of Finance Operations

Position Title

Assistant Director of Finance Operations

Bell Hospital

Position Summary / Career Interest:

The Assistant Director of Finance Operations provides technical leadership and governance for the organizations Workday Financial Management platform serving as the primary finance decision-maker for system architecture security design and integration strategy. This role functions as the principal bridge between Finance and HITS translating operational requirements into durable well-controlled system solutions.
This position carries formal authority over Workday Financials configuration and governance enabling the organization to move efficiently on system decisions prioritize enhancements strategically and maintain a strong controls environment. It also provides leadership oversight for a growing team of Workday Financials analysts and administrators with responsibility for developing internal technical capability over time.

Responsibilities and Essential Job Functions

• Serve as the functional and technical owner for Workday Financials and its related functional areas including decision authority respective to configuration design and business process architecture.
• Manage the integrity of financial structures including work tags ledgers and organizational hierarchies.
• Lead Workday release cycles evaluating new functionality directing appropriate testing and deploying enhancements aligned to organizational priorities.
• Drive enhancements to configuration and architecture that improve system functionality increase automation and reduce manual workarounds.
• Evaluate and implement Workday features aligned to organizational and departmental priorities.
• Maintain documentation of configurations integrations and system standards.
• Serve as subject matter expert for Workday FIN security design including domain security security group structure and design business process security and segregation of duties principles.
• Partner with HITS security administration to communicate evaluate and implement security changes for FIN functional areas.
• Conduct regular access reviews and escalate findings through appropriate channels.
• Maintain documentation of security design decisions and rationale to support audit readiness and institutional knowledge.
• Provide technical leadership and oversight for Workday Financials workstreams associated with transactions or new entities.
• Direct configuration approach and architectural decision-making for new entity integrations ensuring alignment with existing system design and governance standards.
• Partner with Finance and operational leadership to translate transaction-specific requirements into scalable system solutions.
• Lead design and oversight of integrations between Workday Financials and other systems.
• Partner with HITS to develop and maintain integrations using appropriate Workday tools (EIB Workday Studio Extend APIs).
• Ensure accurate and timely financial data flow between systems; troubleshoot and resolve integration failures with sustainable scalable solutions
• Oversee configuration of financial data structures to support internal and external reporting requirements.
• Enable reporting capabilities through Workday-native reports and dashboards.
• Support data governance practices to maintain consistency accuracy and usability of financial data.
• Provide leadership oversight for a team of Workday Financials administrators and analysts.
• Develop and deliver technical training for team members with emphasis on configuration standards and security and process design.
• Establish documentation practices and knowledge transfer frameworks to build internal technical capability and reduce organizational reliance on single points of expertise.
• Set technical standards and governance practices for the team.
• Must be able to perform the professional clinical and or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department.
• These statements are intended to describe the essential functions of the job and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities. Skills and duties may vary dependent upon your department or unit. Other duties may be assigned as required.

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelors Degree in Accounting Finance or a related field of study from an accredited college or university.
• 8 or more years of experience supporting ERP or financial systems with substantial time in ERP or financial systems roles.
• 8 or more years of experience in functional and technical expertise in Workday FIN including business process configuration security and integration design.
• 8 or more years of experience in accounting operations and financial reporting - the ability to evaluate system design from a financial practitioners perspective is essential to this role.
• 8 or more years of experience with Workday integration tools (EIB Workday Sutdio APIs) and enterprise system environments.
• 8 or more years of demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into durable technical solutions.

Preferred Education and Experience

• Masters Degree in Accounting Finance Business Administration or a related field of study from an accredited college or university.
• 10 or more years of experience supporting or leading system workstreams in merger acquisition or entity onboarding.

Preferred Licensure and Certification

• Certified Public Accountant (CPA) - State Board of Accountancy

Required Language Skills

• Fluent English - write and speak English.

Time Type:

Full time

Job Requisition ID:

R-58103

Important information for you to know as you apply:

• The health system is an equal employment opportunity employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race color religion sex (including pregnancy gender identity and sexual orientation) national origin ancestry age disability veteran status genetic information or any other legally-protected status. See also Diversity Equity & Inclusion .

• The health system provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need to request reasonable accommodations for your disability as you navigate the recruitment process please let our recruiters know by requesting an Accommodation Request form using this link .

• Employment with the health system is contingent upon among other things agreeing to the and signing the agreement to the DRP.

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