Workday Financials Data Conversion Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee the complete Financials data conversion workstream for a modernized higher education ERP, transitioning from PeopleSoft Financials to Workday.

• Take responsibility for planning, defining scope, sequencing, estimating, setting milestones, identifying dependencies, upholding quality standards, and ensuring delivery.

• Manage data conversion developers, offer technical guidance, evaluate deliverables, troubleshoot issues, and maintain consistent methods and documentation.

• Act as the main Financials data conversion liaison for the client, system integrator, functional leads, project management, and technical teams.

• Provide regular status updates and escalate risks, issues, decisions, and dependencies as needed.

• Facilitate discovery and requirements sessions to determine conversion scope, historical data needs, priorities, reconciliation criteria, and acceptance standards.

• Analyze data structures, schemas, tables, configurations, and business rules within PeopleSoft Financials.

• Develop and own the conversion strategy, methodology, mapping framework, iteration plan, cutover approach, and readiness criteria.

• Align source data with Workday's business objects, foundational data models, loading requirements, reporting, and integration needs.

• Lead and execute data profiling, extraction, mapping, transformation, cleansing, and validation processes.

• Create, review, and enhance SQL, PeopleTools queries, extraction logic, transformation rules, reconciliation routines, and conversion scripts.

• Ensure that converted data is accurate, complete, balanced, secure, traceable, and compliant.

• Coordinate Workday load cycles with the system integrator while updating mappings, scripts, and source data accordingly.

• Supervise mock conversions, testing, financial reconciliations, defect triage, remediation, and final validation processes.

• Establish data-quality controls, balancing measures, reconciliation standards, acceptance criteria, and secure sign-off.

• Maintain documentation covering scope, mappings, transformation rules, decisions, procedures, tests, defects, reconciliations, and cutover processes.

• Collaborate with Financials functional, integration, reporting, security, testing, and change management teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in ERP data conversion, including leading a data conversion workstream or significant conversion project.

• Extensive hands-on experience with PeopleSoft Financials data structures, tables, extraction methods, and conversion tools across various Financials modules.

• Proven experience in supporting PeopleSoft-to-Workday data conversions.

• Familiarity with Workday's data conversion and loading processes.

• Advanced skills in SQL and PeopleTools, including Application Designer.

• Strong understanding of data profiling, mapping, modeling, cleansing, transformation, reconciliation, validation, and data quality practices.

• Capability to lead technical team members while managing workstream priorities and dependencies.

• Proficient in managing client expectations, facilitating decision-making, clearly communicating technical concepts, and building trust with stakeholders.

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, documentation, and issue-resolution abilities.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience.

• Working knowledge of Integration Broker is highly preferred.

• Experience with Workday Financials conversions in the higher education sector is preferred.

• Familiarity with multiple PeopleSoft Financials domains is preferred.

• Workday or PeopleSoft certification is preferred.

• Experience in full-cycle ERP implementations is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance.

• HSA and FSA accounts available.

• Life and disability insurance coverage.

• Fertility and family planning benefits provided.

• Employee assistance and discount programs offered.

• 11 paid federal holidays each year.

• Flexible unlimited time off (UTO) policy.

• Generous 401(k) matching program with immediate vesting.

• Opportunities for flexible career paths with advancement, mobility, and adaptability.

• Supportive flexible work environment.

• Comprehensive benefits package commencing on the first day of employment.

• Annual discretionary bonus available.