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IT Project Management
Travel Required:
Clearance Required:
What You Will Do:
The Finance Executive Director – Enterprise Systems Transformation will serve as the lead subject matter expert for the Workday Financial Management ERP tool in the Finance department. This highly visible role will drive the design and use of the Workday ERP tool within the organization, ensuring that business and control requirements translate into scalable Workday design decisions, and leverage the tool’s capabilities effectively. This leader will guide the organization, and the finance department through the implementation, deployment, stabilization, and optimization of the Workday ERP tool and ensure alignment with associated business processes.
The Director will partner across Finance, Accounting, Technology, Data, Procurement, Human Capital, Operations, Internal Audit, and implementation teams to align Workday capabilities with enterprise processes and reporting needs. The successful candidate will bring deep Workday Financials expertise, including, ideally, knowledge of the PSA module. Guidehouse is seeking a high-energy, hardworking leader who is deeply committed to and passionate about our mission, approaches colleagues and clients with humility and integrity, and thrives in a collaborative environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Serve as the lead finance architect for the transition to Workday Financial Management, defining target-state, transition-state, and post-deployment architecture.
- Lead end-to-end solution design across the Workday Financials platform, including the Foundation Data Model, general ledger, accounting, revenue, customer accounts, supplier accounts, procurement, expenses, projects, assets, banking, settlements, budgeting, reporting, and analytics.
- Translate finance strategy, business requirements, accounting policies, internal controls, and reporting needs into scalable Workday configurations and architecture decisions.
- Assess the current environment, including chart of accounts, master data, workflows, customizations, interfaces, reports, controls, and downstream dependencies, and determine the appropriate disposition for each capability.
- Own finance data conversion strategy, including data profiling, cleansing, mapping, transformation, reconciliation, historical data retention, cutover, and post-migration validation.
- Provide architectural oversight for integrations, banking, payroll, tax, procurement, expense, billing, planning, data warehouse, reporting, and other enterprise platforms.
- Establish finance design principles, documentation standards, governance forums, decision rights, and controls to maintain consistency across functional and technical workstreams.
- Lead design reviews and resolve complex ERP issues involving process standardization, localization, security, segregation of duties, data quality, performance, scalability, auditability, and regulatory compliance.
- Guide system integration testing, user acceptance testing, finance reconciliation, conversion validation, cutover planning, deployment readiness, hypercare, and stabilization.
- Partner with implementation vendors and internal teams to manage scope, dependencies, risks, issues, milestones, and architecture deliverables.
- Develop the post-implementation operating model, enhancement roadmap, release governance, support processes, and continuous improvement agenda for Workday Financials.
Role Expectations:
- Operate as a hands-on architect who can move effectively between enterprise strategy, detailed finance process design, system configuration, data, integrations, controls, testing, and issue resolution.
- Build trusted relationships with finance executives, accounting leaders, technology teams, business owners, and external implementation partners.
- Challenge unnecessary customization and promote standardized, sustainable processes while accounting for critical business and compliance requirements.
- Communicate complex architecture decisions, risks, trade-offs, and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Anticipate cross-functional ERP impacts and drive timely resolution of issues that could affect close, reporting, controls, business continuity, or implementation milestones.
- Maintain strong documentation, decision discipline, quality standards, and accountability throughout the transformation.
- Bring high energy and a strong work ethic to the transformation, demonstrating sustained commitment to and passion for Guidehouse’s mission while maintaining humility, integrity, and accountability.
- Foster a highly collaborative environment by actively listening, sharing credit, welcoming diverse perspectives, and partnering across functions to achieve collective outcomes.
What You Will Need:
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Business, or a related field.
- 12+ years of progressive finance, ERP, finance transformation, or enterprise systems experience, including leadership of complex implementations.
- Deep expertise in Workday architecture, configuration, business processes, security, reporting, integrations, and deployment methodology.
- Demonstrated experience serving as a Workday Financials architect or lead solution designer for a large-scale implementation or transformation.
- Required Workday ERP background with strong understanding of Workday finance processes, data structures, configuration, integrations, reporting, controls, and legacy-system dependencies.
- Workday Financial Management certifications or equivalent advanced implementation credentials.
- Proven experience transitioning from Peoplesoft or another complex legacy ERP to Workday, including architecture, data conversion, integration, testing, cutover, and stabilization activities.
- Broad understanding of ERP issues across accounting, financial reporting, planning, revenue, billing, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, projects, expenses, assets, banking, tax, payroll, master data, security, and controls.
- Strong knowledge of finance operating models, U.S. GAAP, internal controls, segregation of duties, audit requirements, and data governance.
- Experience leading cross-functional design workshops, architecture reviews, issue resolution, and executive decision-making.
- Exceptional analytical, program leadership, stakeholder management, written communication, and presentation skills.
What Would Be Nice to Have:
- Experience with Workday Accounting Center, Adaptive Planning, Prism Analytics, Extend, Studio, Enterprise Interface Builder, web services, or related integration capabilities.
- Finance or accounting credential such as CPA, CMA, or MBA.
- Experience in a large, global, publicly traded, professional services, or other complex multi-entity organization.
- Experience leading ERP operating-model redesign, finance process transformation, change management, adoption, and benefits realization.
The annual salary range for this position is $179,000.00-$298,000.00. Compensation decisions depend on a wide range of factors, including but not limited to skill sets, experience and training, security clearances, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs.
What We Offer:
Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.
Benefits include:
Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance
401(k) Retirement Plan
Basic Life & Supplemental Life
Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
Student Loan PayDown
Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities
Skills Development & Certifications
Employee Referral Program
Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program
Mobility Stipend
About Guidehouse
Guidehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer–Protected Veterans, Individuals with Disabilities or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.
Guidehouse will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law or ordinance including the Fair Chance Ordinance of Los Angeles and San Francisco.
If you have visited our website for information about employment opportunities, or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Guidehouse Recruiting at 1-571-633-1711 or via email at RecruitingAccommodation@guidehouse.com. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodation.
All communication regarding recruitment for a Guidehouse position will be sent from Guidehouse email domains including @guidehouse.com or guidehouse@myworkday.com. Correspondence received by an applicant from any other domain should be considered unauthorized and will not be honored by Guidehouse. Note that Guidehouse will never charge a fee or require a money transfer at any stage of the recruitment process and does not collect fees from educational institutions for participation in a recruitment event. Never provide your banking information to a third party purporting to need that information to proceed in the hiring process.
If any person or organization demands money related to a job opportunity with Guidehouse, please report the matter to Guidehouse’s Ethics Hotline. If you want to check the validity of correspondence you have received, please contact recruiting@guidehouse.com. Guidehouse is not responsible for losses incurred (monetary or otherwise) from an applicant’s dealings with unauthorized third parties.
Guidehouse does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of Guidehouse and Guidehouse will not be obligated to pay a placement fee.
Job Family:
IT Project Management
Travel Required:
Clearance Required:
What You Will Do:
The Finance Executive Director – Enterprise Systems Transformation will serve as the lead subject matter expert for the Workday Financial Management ERP tool in the Finance department. This highly visible role will drive the design and use of the Workday ERP tool within the organization, ensuring that business and control requirements translate into scalable Workday design decisions, and leverage the tool’s capabilities effectively. This leader will guide the organization, and the finance department through the implementation, deployment, stabilization, and optimization of the Workday ERP tool and ensure alignment with associated business processes.
The Director will partner across Finance, Accounting, Technology, Data, Procurement, Human Capital, Operations, Internal Audit, and implementation teams to align Workday capabilities with enterprise processes and reporting needs. The successful candidate will bring deep Workday Financials expertise, including, ideally, knowledge of the PSA module. Guidehouse is seeking a high-energy, hardworking leader who is deeply committed to and passionate about our mission, approaches colleagues and clients with humility and integrity, and thrives in a collaborative environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Serve as the lead finance architect for the transition to Workday Financial Management, defining target-state, transition-state, and post-deployment architecture.
- Lead end-to-end solution design across the Workday Financials platform, including the Foundation Data Model, general ledger, accounting, revenue, customer accounts, supplier accounts, procurement, expenses, projects, assets, banking, settlements, budgeting, reporting, and analytics.
- Translate finance strategy, business requirements, accounting policies, internal controls, and reporting needs into scalable Workday configurations and architecture decisions.
- Assess the current environment, including chart of accounts, master data, workflows, customizations, interfaces, reports, controls, and downstream dependencies, and determine the appropriate disposition for each capability.
- Own finance data conversion strategy, including data profiling, cleansing, mapping, transformation, reconciliation, historical data retention, cutover, and post-migration validation.
- Provide architectural oversight for integrations, banking, payroll, tax, procurement, expense, billing, planning, data warehouse, reporting, and other enterprise platforms.
- Establish finance design principles, documentation standards, governance forums, decision rights, and controls to maintain consistency across functional and technical workstreams.
- Lead design reviews and resolve complex ERP issues involving process standardization, localization, security, segregation of duties, data quality, performance, scalability, auditability, and regulatory compliance.
- Guide system integration testing, user acceptance testing, finance reconciliation, conversion validation, cutover planning, deployment readiness, hypercare, and stabilization.
- Partner with implementation vendors and internal teams to manage scope, dependencies, risks, issues, milestones, and architecture deliverables.
- Develop the post-implementation operating model, enhancement roadmap, release governance, support processes, and continuous improvement agenda for Workday Financials.
Role Expectations:
- Operate as a hands-on architect who can move effectively between enterprise strategy, detailed finance process design, system configuration, data, integrations, controls, testing, and issue resolution.
- Build trusted relationships with finance executives, accounting leaders, technology teams, business owners, and external implementation partners.
- Challenge unnecessary customization and promote standardized, sustainable processes while accounting for critical business and compliance requirements.
- Communicate complex architecture decisions, risks, trade-offs, and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Anticipate cross-functional ERP impacts and drive timely resolution of issues that could affect close, reporting, controls, business continuity, or implementation milestones.
- Maintain strong documentation, decision discipline, quality standards, and accountability throughout the transformation.
- Bring high energy and a strong work ethic to the transformation, demonstrating sustained commitment to and passion for Guidehouse’s mission while maintaining humility, integrity, and accountability.
- Foster a highly collaborative environment by actively listening, sharing credit, welcoming diverse perspectives, and partnering across functions to achieve collective outcomes.
What You Will Need:
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Business, or a related field.
- 12+ years of progressive finance, ERP, finance transformation, or enterprise systems experience, including leadership of complex implementations.
- Deep expertise in Workday architecture, configuration, business processes, security, reporting, integrations, and deployment methodology.
- Demonstrated experience serving as a Workday Financials architect or lead solution designer for a large-scale implementation or transformation.
- Required Workday ERP background with strong understanding of Workday finance processes, data structures, configuration, integrations, reporting, controls, and legacy-system dependencies.
- Workday Financial Management certifications or equivalent advanced implementation credentials.
- Proven experience transitioning from Peoplesoft or another complex legacy ERP to Workday, including architecture, data conversion, integration, testing, cutover, and stabilization activities.
- Broad understanding of ERP issues across accounting, financial reporting, planning, revenue, billing, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, projects, expenses, assets, banking, tax, payroll, master data, security, and controls.
- Strong knowledge of finance operating models, U.S. GAAP, internal controls, segregation of duties, audit requirements, and data governance.
- Experience leading cross-functional design workshops, architecture reviews, issue resolution, and executive decision-making.
- Exceptional analytical, program leadership, stakeholder management, written communication, and presentation skills.
What Would Be Nice to Have:
- Experience with Workday Accounting Center, Adaptive Planning, Prism Analytics, Extend, Studio, Enterprise Interface Builder, web services, or related integration capabilities.
- Finance or accounting credential such as CPA, CMA, or MBA.
- Experience in a large, global, publicly traded, professional services, or other complex multi-entity organization.
- Experience leading ERP operating-model redesign, finance process transformation, change management, adoption, and benefits realization.
The annual salary range for this position is $179,000.00-$298,000.00. Compensation decisions depend on a wide range of factors, including but not limited to skill sets, experience and training, security clearances, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs.
What We Offer:
Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.
Benefits include:
Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance
401(k) Retirement Plan
Basic Life & Supplemental Life
Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
Student Loan PayDown
Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities
Skills Development & Certifications
Employee Referral Program
Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program
Mobility Stipend
About Guidehouse
Guidehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer–Protected Veterans, Individuals with Disabilities or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.
Guidehouse will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law or ordinance including the Fair Chance Ordinance of Los Angeles and San Francisco.
If you have visited our website for information about employment opportunities, or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Guidehouse Recruiting at 1-571-633-1711 or via email at RecruitingAccommodation@guidehouse.com. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodation.
All communication regarding recruitment for a Guidehouse position will be sent from Guidehouse email domains including @guidehouse.com or guidehouse@myworkday.com. Correspondence received by an applicant from any other domain should be considered unauthorized and will not be honored by Guidehouse. Note that Guidehouse will never charge a fee or require a money transfer at any stage of the recruitment process and does not collect fees from educational institutions for participation in a recruitment event. Never provide your banking information to a third party purporting to need that information to proceed in the hiring process.
If any person or organization demands money related to a job opportunity with Guidehouse, please report the matter to Guidehouse’s Ethics Hotline. If you want to check the validity of correspondence you have received, please contact recruiting@guidehouse.com. Guidehouse is not responsible for losses incurred (monetary or otherwise) from an applicant’s dealings with unauthorized third parties.
Guidehouse does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of Guidehouse and Guidehouse will not be obligated to pay a placement fee.
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Who's Hiring
- Alvarez & Marsal131
- Amazon14
- Apple11
- Deloitte7
- PwC5
Top Industries Hiring
- Consulting & Professional Services43
- Accounting & Auditing14
- Investment & Asset Management14
- Education1
- Electronics & Hardware1
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in finance transformation consultant jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or a related business discipline
- Hands-on experience with ERP platforms such as SAP S/4HANA or Oracle Cloud Financials
- Demonstrated ability to lead finance process redesign and operating model work
- Strong financial planning and analysis skills including budgeting, forecasting, and reporting
- Project management experience across cross-functional finance and technology teams
- CPA, CFA, or relevant consulting certification preferred for senior-level positions
Tips for Your Finance Transformation Consultant Job Search
Quantify transformation outcomes on your resume
Finance transformation roles are results-driven, so your resume needs numbers attached to outcomes. Cite cycle-time reductions, cost savings delivered, or ERP rollout scope. Generic statements about leading change will not distinguish you from dozens of other applicants.
Highlight your ERP and EPM tool depth
Hiring managers for these roles want specifics: SAP S/4HANA, Oracle Cloud Financials, Workday Financials, Anaplan. Name the modules you configured, not just the platform. Candidates who list a tool without context look less credible than those who describe what they actually did with it.
Target postings by transformation phase
Job descriptions often signal where a company is in its transformation journey, whether that is strategy and design, system implementation, or post-go-live optimization. Matching your experience to that phase in your cover letter shows you understand what the role actually demands right now.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists finance transformation consultant openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare a structured case for each interview stage
Expect a mix of behavioral questions about stakeholder management and technical questions about your approach to process redesign or chart-of-accounts restructuring. Prepare concise situation-action-result examples for each, since panels often include both finance leaders and technology leads.
Negotiate total compensation including project bonuses
Base salary is rarely the whole picture for consulting roles. Project completion bonuses, utilization targets, and performance multipliers can add materially to your offer. Ask directly how variable pay is structured and what the realistic range has been for people in comparable roles over the past year.
Finance Transformation Consultant Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most finance transformation consultants?
The companies hiring the most finance transformation consultants right now include Alvarez & Marsal, Amazon, and Apple, with the largest share of openings in California, Texas, and Massachusetts, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is concentrated at large consulting firms and at corporations running active ERP or finance operating-model programs.
How many finance transformation consultant jobs are remote?
About 85% of finance transformation consultant openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, though on-site presence is more common during active implementation phases. Strategy, financial modeling, and program management sub-areas tend to offer the most remote flexibility, while hands-on system configuration and change management work typically requires some client-site time.
How do you become a finance transformation consultant?
Start with a finance or accounting degree and build a foundation in financial planning, reporting, or controllership before moving into project-based work. Gain exposure to at least one major ERP platform through implementation or optimization projects. Develop change management and stakeholder communication skills alongside your technical knowledge, since the role requires translating financial complexity for non-finance audiences. Certifications in ERP platforms or project management strengthen your candidacy.
How do you get hired as a finance transformation consultant with little experience?
Entry points typically include analyst roles at consulting firms where you support transformation workstreams, or finance operations roles inside companies running ERP migrations. Focus on building ERP exposure and process documentation skills early. Highlighting academic projects, internship work, or any involvement in a system implementation, even in a supporting capacity, signals readiness for transformation work to hiring managers who value practical context over years of experience alone.
What does the finance transformation consultant interview process look like?
Most processes run three to four stages. An initial recruiter or hiring manager screen is followed by a technical round covering your ERP experience, process redesign approach, and financial analysis skills. A case or presentation round then asks you to work through a transformation scenario or present a past engagement. Final rounds typically include panel interviews with senior stakeholders who assess both your technical depth and your ability to manage client relationships under pressure.
Where can I find and apply to finance transformation consultant jobs?
You can find and apply to finance transformation consultant jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the listings to find roles that match your experience level and specialization, then apply directly to each one that fits.
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