Financial System Conversion Lead

Financial System Conversion Lead

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job summary:

The project team with our client is seeking mission-driven individuals who are flexible, team-oriented, and highly motivated to support their financial transformation and system changes. The team is seeking individuals across a broad variety of roles for business process analysis and improvement, reporting, technical integrations, conversions, and change management. We are excited by the opportunity this project presents to grow and develop our internal talent!



location: CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia

job type: Contract

salary: $55 - 70 per hour

work hours: 8am to 5pm

education: Bachelors



responsibilities:

• Lead finance process owners and subject matter experts through discovery processes to identify current state financial information and data sources (Oracle and other systems) to determine what data will be converted to Workday. Finance functional areas to be converted include the chart of accounts (FDM), banking and settlement, business assets, capital projects, customer accounts, financial accounting, gifts/endowments, grants management, procurement and supplier accounts, payroll cost allocations.
• Develop and maintain an accurate and accessible master inventory of all required data conversions
• Develop and execute a detailed work plan and process for gathering and documenting conversion requirements and technical specifications, developing and testing conversion extracts and data transformations, and performing data validations.
• Develop and document detailed data mappings from Oracle EBS to Workday Financials
• Prioritize and assign Oracle conversion extract and transformation work to conversion developers
• Directly manage the work of conversion team members, monitor progress, and ensure that timelines are met.
• Develop detailed understanding of automated conversion tools to be used on project including Oracle PL/SQL, Hoover and Rover
• Ensure that conversions are developed in a repeatable, high quality manner, using standard tool sets
• Ensure that all conversions are documented in a clear and auditable manner, with a well-defined audit trail and accessible reconciliations of Oracle legacy data to Workday Financials data.
• Identify high value opportunities to streamline and improve the quality of converted data across all finance areas, and work with functional team to identify data cleanup opportunities
• Develop, document and execute detailed processes and test scenarios to validate the accuracy and quality of converted data
• Identify requirements for the development of data validation reports both in Oracle, and the target system (Workday Financials)
• Develop weekly status reports
• Develop and present presentations related to the conversion to a wide variety of audiences, including project leadership, process owners and end users
• Partner closely with the Deployment Manager to sequence all data conversions on the master cut-over plan
• Partner closely with the change management function to communicate end user impacts of the data conversion
• Perform other duties as required

qualifications:

• Experience level: Director
• Minimum 8 years of experience
• Education: Bachelors (required)

skills:

• workday (5 years of experience is required)
• Conversion Lead (8 years of experience is required)
• PMP
• Oracle EBS

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