Workday Finance Lead

Pan-American Life Insurance Group (PALIG) Location: US Remote | Hybrid Work Opportunities Available

About the Role: Join Pan-American Life Insurance Group (PALIG) as a Workday Finance Lead and play a critical role in shaping our financial systems strategy. In this role, you will lead the functional Workday Finance ecosystem, provide strategic guidance to business partners, and oversee day-to-day production support and platform optimization. This position combines hands-on Workday Financials configuration expertise with oversight of a high-performing team supporting Accounting, Finance, Procurement, and related functions.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Maintaining translation tables for integrations
• Managing foreign exchange rate rules for remeasurement and translation
• Assisting finance in creating EIBs
• Updating validation rules
• Monitoring data quality in the ledger and assist in data cleanup
• Maintaining elimination rules
• Updating equity pickup rules
• Rolling forward year-end balances
• Maintaining worktag types for beginning balance journals
• Utilizing Accounting Center edit functionality to clear errors from integrated files
• Serving as Workday FIN subject matter expert for business user questions and requests

Essential Functions:

Governance

• Establish governance frameworks for prioritization, release planning, escalation workflows, and issue resolution
• Support administration and governance of finance-related business processes
• Partner with Accounting, Finance, Procurement, Internal Audit, and IT to align systems with strategies

Production Support Ownership

• Own and manage the Workday Financials production support lifecycle
• Drive root cause analysis and implement corrective actions
• Oversee regression testing for Workday releases
• Coordinate with IT, Integration, Help Desk, and Security teams

Functional Workday Expertise

• Configure, maintain, and optimize Workday Financials modules
• Analyze release notes and determine uptake strategies
• Improve financial processes, workflows, and data accuracy

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Gather requirements and translate needs into Workday solutions
• Partner on integrations (EIB, Studio, APIs)
• Support internal controls, audit readiness, and SOD design

Training, Development, and Release Management

• Own Workday Finance communications and release management
• Develop and deliver training to the accounting team on Workday Financials modules
• Promote Workday best practices and continuous improvement
• Maintain documentation

Education & Experience:

• Required: Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 5+ years of experience in Finance/ERP roles, including 3+ years in Workday Financials with hands-on configuration and troubleshooting. Must have production support ownership experience, strong accounting/financial process knowledge, and excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
• Preferred: Degree in Accounting, change management experience, Workday migration experience, experience leading others, and Workday Pro Certifications.

• Competitive compensation package (base salary & bonus)
• Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, 401(k), paid time off, and tuition reimbursement
• Medical and dental coverage available starting the first of the month following 30 days of service
• Hybrid work opportunities