Associate Director, Finance & HR Systems

$155,000 - $175,000/Yr

Harvard University - Boston, MA

Full-time - Mid Level

Boston, MA

Educational Services

About the position

The Associate Director of Finance & HR Systems at Harvard Business Publishing is a strategic role responsible for overseeing the direction and business value of the organization's Finance and HR systems, particularly focusing on Workday and eCommerce platforms. This position involves building cross-functional relationships, managing a high-performing team, and ensuring the effective utilization of systems to meet business needs.

Responsibilities

• Establish strong relationships with business stakeholders in Finance, HR, and other units.
• Partner with stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into capability/platform roadmaps.
• Manage a high-performing team, ensuring workload and priorities are aligned with roadmaps.
• Manage strategic vendor relationships, ensuring solutions are delivered in line with cost, schedule, and quality expectations.
• Lead the implementation and continuous improvement of Workday modules.
• Develop and deliver training programs for end-users to maximize the effective use of Workday.
• Oversee expert support and management for Workday, ensuring its effective utilization and integration with other systems.
• Lead the monitoring of Workday system performance and oversee troubleshooting of issues to ensure optimal functionality and data confidentiality.
• Stay current with Workday updates and new features and assess their potential impact on the organization.
• Manage support for HBP e-commerce solutions and their integrations.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience managing teams supporting HR and Financial applications.
• Experience managing teams using Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Experience defining business requirements, writing user stories, and providing detailed system and functional designs.
• Excellent oral and written communication, presenting, meeting facilitation, negotiation, decision making, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience and/or knowledge of change management and training principles and methodologies.

Nice-to-haves

• Extensive experience with Workday, including implementation, configuration, and ongoing support.
• Acute business acumen and an understanding of organizational issues and challenges that are commonplace in HR and Finance practices.

Benefits

• Tuition reimbursement
• Education reimbursement
• Early-release Summer Fridays