Assistant Vice President, Workday Financials Lead

Oaktree Capital Management, L.P.

Website: oaktreecapital.com
Job details:
Our Company

Oaktree is a leader among global investment managers specializing in alternative investments, with more than $220 billion in assets under management. The firm emphasizes an opportunistic, value-oriented, and risk-controlled approach to investments in credit, equity, and real estate. The firm has more than 1,400 employees and offices in more than 25 cities worldwide.

We are committed to cultivating an environment that is collaborative, curious, inclusive and honors diversity of thought. Providing training and career development opportunities and emphasizing strong support for our local communities through philanthropic initiatives are essential to our culture.

For additional information, please visit Oaktree’s website at http://www.oaktreecapital.com/

Responsibilities

Workday Financials Expertise & Cross Vertical Leadership

• Lead a cross functional Workday team including Financials configuration consultants, Integration developers, and Adaptive Planning specialists.
• Drive hands on Workday Financials configuration and functional solutioning aligned with core accounting and financial processes (GL, accounting operations, reporting, controls).
• Understand and guide solutions across other Workday verticals (HCM, Payroll, Integrations, Adaptive Planning) to ensure architectural consistency and cross functional alignment.
• Translate complex business requirements into scalable Workday solutions with strong financial process alignment.
• Support integrated planning and forecasting solutions using Workday Adaptive Planning.
• Provide subject matter expertise and mentor teams on complex design decisions, ensuring accuracy and timely financial outcomes.
  
  

Leadership, Delivery Management & Capability Building

• Lead, mentor, and develop the offshore Workday team — setting direction, ensuring accountability, and driving continuous skill growth.
• Drive high quality delivery across enhancements, projects, production support, and cross functional initiatives.
• Serve as the primary escalation point for offshore delivery, resolving blockers, technical issues, and prioritization conflicts.
• Partner with stakeholders to ensure predictable, well governed execution with strong documentation and adherence to standards.
• Build Workday capability within the team — establishing frameworks for learning, certification advancement, reusable assets, and standardization.
• Proactively collaborate with business and onshore teams to understand demand pipelines and align resource planning and capability development.
  
  

Hands-On Contribution & Quality Assurance

• Provide hands-on configuration for high complexity or high risk Workday Financials enhancements.
• Perform rigorous configuration and code reviews, ensuring maintainability, performance, and alignment with architectural standards.
• Define and enforce quality gates, coding standards, and review practices for the team.
• Identify recurring issues or design gaps and drive systematic improvements to reduce production incidents.
• Take end-to-end accountability for overall solution quality and stability of delivered Workday capabilities.
  
  

Required Experience & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 10+ years of IT experience delivering enterprise applications, with at least 5+ years in Workday.
• Deep hands-on expertise in Workday Financials configuration (mandatory).
• Experience leading and managing offshore/global Workday delivery teams for 5+ years.
• Exposure to other Workday verticals (HCM, Payroll, Adaptive Planning, Integrations) with ability to guide cross functional collaboration.
• Solid understanding of financial and accounting processes and their alignment with enterprise systems.
• Proven experience in delivery governance, code review, production support, and issue resolution.
• Strong understanding of SDLC, Agile methodologies, and Jira-based execution.
• Outstanding communication, stakeholder management, and interpersonal skills.
  
  

Key Attributes

• Strong leadership presence — collaborative, trustworthy, and highly accountable.
• Hands-on, detail-oriented, and able to operate at both strategic and tactical levels.
• Skilled at managing escalations, cross-team dependencies, and delivery risks.
• Passion for building capability, maturing processes, and achieving continuous improvement.
• Calm, structured, and decisive under pressure.
  
  

Stakeholder Management & Client Interaction

• Build strong working relationships with onshore technology teams, business users, and functional SMEs.
• Act as a proactive partner, aligning priorities, timelines, risks, and delivery approaches early in the lifecycle.
• Facilitate clear communication across time zones, ensuring offshore delivery is seamlessly integrated with onshore planning.
• Support client and stakeholder queries with clarity, strong functional understanding, and timely follow through.
• Represent offshore delivery in governance forums, backlog discussions, and solution workshops.
  
  

SDLC, Agile & Delivery Governance

• Ensure consistent application of SDLC, Agile practices, and enterprise delivery standards.
• Partner with onshore teams on sprint planning, backlog management, refinements, and retrospectives.
• Maintain high hygiene in tools such as Jira — acceptance criteria, estimates, traceability, and documentation.
• Ensure release readiness with strong testing, validation, and change management discipline.
  
  

Equal Opportunity Employment Policy

Oaktree is committed to diversity and to equal opportunity employment. Oaktree does not make employment decisions on the basis of race, creed, color, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, past or present physical or mental disability, HIV status, medical condition as defined by state law (genetic characteristics or cancer), pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, veteran status, military service, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic violence victim status or any other classification protected by applicable federal, state and local laws and ordinances. This policy applies to hiring, placement, internal promotions, training, opportunities for advancement, recruitment advertising, transfers, demotions, layoffs, terminations, recruitment advertising, rates of pay and other forms of compensation and all other terms, conditions and privileges of employment. This policy applies to all Oaktree applicants, employees, clients, and contractors. Staff members wishing to report violations or suspected violations of this policy should contact the head of their department or Human Resources.

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