External: Senior Workday Financials Analyst
Internal: Director, Finance Systems Strategy & Optimization
Location: This is a fully remote role.
Candidates who live near CB offices have the option of being hybrid (Tuesday and Wednesday in office).
Type: This is a full-time position
The Operational Excellence (OX) function at the College Board is a high-performing team, serving as a center of excellence in the Finance Division, led by the Executive Director, Operational Excellence. Situated directly under the Chief Financial Officer (CFO), OX brings deep expertise in project management, process architecture, product strategy, data analytics, and strategic communications. We are committed to driving organizational excellence by designing and optimizing integrated systems, enhancing cross-functional collaboration, streamlining complex workflows, and fortifying policy and communication frameworks. Our mission is to empower every function within the Finance Division to operate at peak performance—delivering exceptional value and measurable impact to the College Board.
As the Director, Finance Systems Strategy & Optimization, you will serve as the execution leader responsible for translating strategic vision into tangible system improvements across the College Board’s core financial platforms—Workday Financials, Adaptive Planning, and Strategic Sourcing – Workday Financials, Adaptive Planning, and Strategic Sourcing. You will focus on driving end-to-end delivery of technical solutions, coordinating complex projects, and ensuring our financial systems operate efficiently, accurately, and in alignment with business needs.
You will partner with Accounting, Procurement, Strategic Finance, Investments, Technology, and Talent to ensure these systems are fully leveraged to deliver maximum value. You will play a critical role in owning the system roadmaps—taking full responsibility for executing both immediate and long-term action plans. You will lead the investigation and implementation of new functionality, ensuring alignment with the needs and priorities of all major stakeholders. You will have a special focus on AI integration, ensuring our systems utilize the latest and greatest technologies to automate and innovate so Finance teams can work faster and most efficiently and produce more critical insights with ease. Teams will rely on you to build custom dashboards in Workday Financials and maintain financial data integrity to help to drive business decisions. You will be responsible for developing enhanced reporting solutions. You will create and maintain a suite of staff-friendly resources to ensure system processes are clear and known to all users.
Our ideal candidate is passionate about technology, along with prioritizing and simplifying – implementing the most impactful things and finding powerful solutions for complex problems. The ideal candidate has Workday Financials expertise, an excellent ability to anticipate user needs, an obsession with data, and the ability to manage the technical and people components of projects with attention to detail and speed.
Prioritize and implement technical solutions in Workday Financials to meet business needs (40%)
Translate functional needs into solutions, ensuring that our Workday Financials solutions meet business needs and are scalable, repeatable, automated, leverage AI and new and emerging technologies, etc.
Project manage the implementation of new features and enhancements, overseeing configuration, testing, deployment, and change management
College Board offers a competitive benefits and compensation program that attracts top talent looking to make a difference in education. As a self-sustaining non-profit, we believe in compensating employees fairly in relation to each other, their qualifications, their impact, and the relevant market.
The hiring range for a new employee in this position is $88,000 to $160,000. College Board differentiates salaries by location so where you live will narrow the portion of this range in which you can expect a salary.
Your salary will be carefully determined based on your location, relevant experience, the external labor market, and the pay of College Board employees in similar roles. College Board strives to provide our best offer up front based on this criteria.
Your salary is only one part of all that College Board offers, including but not limited to:
A comprehensive package designed to support the well-being of employees and their families and promote education. Our robust benefits package includes health, dental, and vision insurance, generous paid time off, paid parental leave, fertility benefits, pet insurance, tuition assistance, support for professional development, retirement benefits, and more
Recognition of exceptional performance through annual bonuses, salary growth over time through market increases, and opportunities for merit raises and promotions based on increased scope of responsibility
You can expect to have transparent conversations about benefits and compensation with our recruiters throughout your application process.
