Alight Hiring for Finance Workday Transformation Director – Virtual North America Job at Lincolnshire, IL Full Time

Our story

At Alight, we believe a company’s success starts with its people. It’s why we’re so driven to connect passion with purpose. Our team’s expertise in human insights and cloud technology, allows companies and employees around the world to transform and thrive.

With a competitive total rewards package, continuing education and training, and tremendous potential with a growing global organization, Alight is the perfect place to put your passion to work.

Join our team. Because transformation takes a workforce. Learn more at careers.alight.com.

The Finance Workday Transformation Director will engage as a trusted advisor, bringing their experience of being a senior Finance professional to provide credibility and confidence in the Alight team. The role will position, grow and engage our Finance transformation capabilities, combined with our wider professional services across readiness, deployment, and optimization, to deliver transformation enabled technology programs.

The Finance Workday Transformation Director will influence Alight’s Workday point-of-view, extending beyond Workday’s core Financials solutions and into the likes of Financial & Workforce Planning, Prism and Accounting Center. They’ll work with Strategic Messaging, Sales, Delivery and Innovation teams across the Workday business group to develop unique differentiators that enable our clients’ desired outcomes.

The role will engage with our current and potential clients, building relationships with CFO’s and across the Office of Finance. The Finance Workday Transformation Director will support new business sales, upsell and cross sell opportunities within the Alight client base, as well as across the Workday customer install base. The role will also include aspects of billable Delivery, whether as Managing Director or Finance transformation consulting.

Key Responsibilities

• Modernize client’s finance functions by understanding their strategic intentions to enable their desired outcomes and enable engaging employee experiences
• Utilize Workday cloud technology and enable AI and digital strategies to create operational efficiencies and refine processes
• Build trusted partner relationships with clients to understand their business drivers and challenges from the perspective of multiple finance-based personas and provide thought leadership and innovative solutioning to address gaps
• Lead Finance-based go-to-market strategies and sales efforts
• Manage client Workday engagements including risks, budget, scope and timeline.

Qualifications & Experience

• Background in senior Finance roles, with experience of delivering transformation via cloud Financials technologies
• Experience of client management, engaging with senior stakeholders to deliver value and drive to outcomes
• Proven relationship building experience to create and maintain trusted partner relationships
• Excellent communication skills catered to a wide variety of audiences.
• Ability to effectively engage with and provide finance consultation to senior-level client executives
• Superior understanding of accounting principles and financial analysis

By applying for a position with Alight, you understand that, should you be made an offer, it will be contingent on your undergoing and successfully completing a background check consistent with Alight’s employment policies. Background checks may include some or all the following based on the nature of the position: SSN/SIN validation, education verification, employment verification, and criminal check, search against global sanctions and government watch lists, credit check, and/or drug test. You will be notified during the hiring process which checks are required by the position.

Our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Alight believes diversity should be visible, valued, and sustained throughout the organization. And we’re committed to enabling an inclusive culture of belonging that engages all colleagues and grows the diversity of our talent to proudly represent the clients and communities we serve.

As an affirmative action employer, we adhere to the principles of equal employment opportunity in the workplace as defined in our diversity policy statement.

Diversity Policy Statement

Alight does not discriminate against anyone based on sex, gender, race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital or domestic partner status, citizenship, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics or conduct covered by federal, state or local law. In addition, we take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified minorities, women, disabled persons, disabled veterans and other covered veterans.

Alight provides reasonable accommodations to the known limitations of otherwise qualified employees and applicants for employment with disabilities and sincerely held religious beliefs, practices and observances, unless doing so would result in undue hardship. Applicants for employment may request a reasonable accommodation/modification by contacting his/her recruiter.

Authorization to work in the United States

Applicants for employment in the United States must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with Alight.

Note, this job description does not restrict management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job to other entities; including but not limited to subsidiaries, partners, or purchasers of Alight business units.

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We offer you a competitive total rewards package, continuing education & training, and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization.

New York Equal Pay for Equal Work Act Statement.Pay Transparency Statement in compliance with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the New York City pay transparency ordinance, and any other similar laws or ordinances:Alight takes into consideration a candidate’s experience, education, certification/credentials, market data, and internal equity when determining an offer for a successful employment candidate, and Alight does so on an individualized, non-discriminatory basis. Therefore, an offer may fall anywhere in between the estimated minimum base salary for this role of $114,500.00/year (for full time employees) and the estimated maximum base salary for this role of $244,500.00/year (for full time employees). In addition to a base salary, this position may be bonus eligible. Alight also offers a comprehensive benefits package; for specific details on our benefits package, please visit: https://bit.ly/Alight-Benefits-US22

DISCLAIMER:

Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job to other entities; including but not limited to subsidiaries, partners, or purchasers of Alight business units.

Alight Solutions provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical condition, veteran, marital, parental, citizenship, or domestic partner status, or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state or local law. Alight Solutions is committed to a diverse workforce and is an affirmative action employer.