ERP Manager

Enterprise Resource Planning Manager
 

Responsibilities

Gladstone is seeking a talented, motivated, and highly collaborative candidate to lead a small team supporting Gladstoneâ™s enterprise resource planning. As part of a larger IT team, this person will work with key stakeholders to ensure that systems are configured to provide optimal support.  This position will perform hands-on work in configuration, scripting, programming, and report writing, while also managing members of the team as well as relationships with system vendors and support contractors.

Essential Functions:

• Gather and analyze data in support of business needs, proposed projects, enhanced functionality, and provisioning of user applications and systems necessary for business operations
• Ensure program logic, quality assurance, and data processing requirements follow âœbest practices,❠deliver expected functionality, and meet internal security and external regulatory requirements
• Design, develop and deploy integration scripts, customizations, and reports
• Serve as the subject matter expert on current and upcoming Workday capabilities
• Analyze the efficiency of existing processes, and develop/deploy improvements to those processes
• Coordinate, contribute and evaluate rigorous technical and user acceptance testing
• Interact with a variety of functional stakeholders to understand business processes to help functional users become more efficient and effective at utilizing available business systems
• Manage relationships with system vendors and support consultants/contractors
• Regularly communicate status and changes to management and key stakeholders

Key Qualifications:

• Expertise in Workday, particularly with supporting Workday Financial Management
• Direct experience in at least one implementation of Workday
• Hands-on experience in designing and implementing reports in Workday
• Hands-on experience designing, creating and modifying Workday business processes
• Experience with Workday Dashboards, Workday Studio, and Workday Cloud Platform
• Experience in managing and participating in User Acceptance testing
• Hands-on experience with creating and maintaining integrations between Workday and other systems
• A strong willingness to learn about the business of Gladstone and how it functions
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; ability to train both novice and expert users on best practices and system functionality
• Strong project management skills and dedication to transparency
• Exemplary attention to detail, especially when it comes to documentation
• Strong organizational and time-management skills
• Experience in managing direct reports as well as contractors and consultants
• A passion for supporting cutting-edge science
   

 Education and Experience Requirements

• Bachelorâ™s Degree from a four-year college or university, preferably in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or Computer Information Systems, and four years related experience and/or training.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience within the enterprise resource planning space, with at least 2 of years using Workday extensively.