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About Us

Kyriba is a global fintech leader empowering CFOs and finance teams with cloud-based treasury, payments, risk management and working capital solutions. We serve 3,000+ customers worldwide, managing $15 trillion in payments annually and helping businesses optimize liquidity performance across the enterprise.

We're on a mission to become the most sought-after cloud technology company globally. We think big, innovate relentlessly, and challenge the status quo every day. If you are a problem-solver who’s ready to push boundaries and achieve more than you thought possible-you'll find an exceptional career within an extraordinary business.

Location: US East Coast

Role summary

Kyriba is embarking on a greenfield implementation of Workday Financials. The Workday Finance Lead will be our internal functional leader through deployment, partnering closely with our implementation partner to deliver a global rollout.

Post go-live (target 2027), the Workday Finance Lead will own the functional roadmap and ongoing optimization of Finance, Expenses, and Procurement in Workday across all Kyriba legal entities, driving automation, controls, and real-time insight.

What you’ll do

Project phase (Implementation)

Functional leadership: Serve as Kyriba’s primary functional voice across Workday Core Financials, Procurement, and Expenses; represent business requirements, validate partner designs, and steward global design decisions and localization patterns.
Global design: Partner with the implementation team on FDM/Chart of Accounts, fiscal calendars, multi-entity, and multi-currency; review and approve intercompany, consolidation, and tax design recommendations with Controllership.
Data and legacy migration: Co-own data readiness and integrity; define acceptance criteria and reconciliation rules, lead mapping reviews, and sign off on conversion outcomes as part of legacy decommissioning.
Compliance and localization: Coordinate with Tax and local Finance to ensure proposed designs meet e‑invoicing mandates and statutory requirements.
Process consulting: Lead Kyriba-side workshops with Finance COEs for P2P, O2C, and R2R; synthesize requirements, prioritize trade‑offs, and provide decision records to guide the implementation partner’s scalable design.
Testing and quality: Define test strategy and scenarios; oversee SIT/UAT execution and defect triage with the partner; manage cutover readiness criteria and hypercare success measures on behalf of Finance.

Product ownership (2027+)

Roadmap and value delivery: Own the Workday Financials roadmap aligned to CFO priorities; manage backlog, quarterly releases, and value realization.
Solution optimization: Design and maintain complex configurations (cost centers, intercompany billing, allocations, revenue recognition/allocation as applicable); configure, test, validate, and deploy Business Process updates.
Release management: Evaluate and adopt Workday feature releases; run impact assessments, regression testing, and stakeholder communications.
Innovation and AI: Champion Workday’s innovation roadmap; evaluate AI/ML features for reconciliation, anomaly detection, and forecasting in line with Kyriba Finance objectives.
Analytics: Enable reporting and dashboards using Workday Report Writer/Composite, Prism Analytics, and Adaptive Planning to provide real-time, multi-dimensional insight.
Governance, security, and data: Own finance master data stewardship (values, validation rules, exception reporting); role-based security, and audit evidence processes with IT Security and Internal Audit.
Partnerships and mentorship: Serve as escalation point for Finance Systems and Finance Ops; coach team members and drive continuous learning.

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

Workday expertise: Deep functional knowledge of Core Financials (GL, AP, AR), Expenses, and Procurement; hands-on configuration and reporting experience.
Finance operations: Solid understanding of US GAAP/IFRS concepts, intercompany, consolidations, multi-entity/multi-currency, tax/VAT, and statutory reporting.
Global mindset: Comfortable balancing global standards with local requirements across multiple jurisdictions.
Communication and influence: Skilled at framing options, trade-offs, and recommendations to senior Finance leaders and cross-functional stakeholders.
Delivery excellence: Strong prioritization, risk management, and execution discipline in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.

Qualifications

Experience: Significant Workday Financials experience as a functional lead/product owner or senior consultant, including at least one full-lifecycle implementation.
Certifications: Workday certification(s) in Financials/Expenses/Procurement or Workday Pro highly preferred.
Integrations and tools: Familiarity with Workday EIB/Studio/Cloud Connect; experience with Adaptive Planning, NetSuite, and/or MuleSoft (or similar iPaaS) is a strong plus.
Nice to have: Exposure to Prism Analytics, role-based security/SoD design, and audit/SOX processes.

Tech environment

Workday Financials (Core, Procurement, Expenses), Prism, Adaptive Planning, MuleSoft.
Integrations with banking, payroll, tax/VAT, and data/BI platforms; collaboration via Jira/Confluence.

Why Kyriba

Impact: Shape a greenfield Workday Financials landscape with executive sponsorship and global scale.
Growth: Access to Workday training and cross-functional finance transformation projects.
Purpose: Join the category leader in enterprise liquidity management, partnering closely with CFO and finance teams worldwide.

Our Values Guide Everything We Do

Think Big & Constantly Innovate: We have the confidence to think big, embrace change, challenge the status quo, and continuously evolve - incorporating new technologies and driving industry progress.
Put our Customers’ Outcomes First: We are passionate about delivering the highest value for our customers and supporting them with end-to-end care throughout their journey with us.
Act with Integrity: Integrity is at the heart of everything we do. We take personal responsibility for our actions, own our decisions, and honour each other’s contributions. We empower each other through honesty, respect, trust and transparency.
Work as One Team: We are driven by our common goals and share in each other’s successes and failures, learning and working together as a team where everyone can bring their best selves.
Strive for Excellence while Having Fun: We enjoy tackling new challenges together, and revel in continuous improvement as we deliver, with ultimate professionalism, the very best for our customers, while exceeding our own expectations.

At Kyriba we value pay transparency and fairness.

For new hires, the annual base salary range for this role is $112,800.00 - $155,100.00 based on a full-time schedule. Salary can progress beyond this range through sustained performance and demonstrated success in the role. In addition to base pay, this position may be eligible for variable compensation (eg. performance bonus or commission-based plan) and a long-term incentive. The final package will be determined by factors such as skills, experience and qualifications. Kyriba also offers a comprehensive range of health, welfare and wellbeing benefits designed to support both your professional and personal life.

Kyriba believes that everyone has the ability to make an impact, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, creed, color, gender, religion, marital status, domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, pregnancy, military or veteran status, citizenship, and genetic information. See EEO Law.

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