Workday Adaptive & Finance Lead

Focus on WD; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Focus Cloud is seeking a hands-on Workday Adaptive & Finance Lead in a Toronto-based engagement. You will act as a trusted advisor, overseeing the implementation of Workday Financials and Adaptive Planning while partnering with Finance, Technology, and delivery teams to ensure successful outcomes.

This role combines strong FP&A and finance process knowledge with deep Workday implementation experience, contributing to solution quality, testing, and program governance.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with Workday Adaptive Planning.
• Background in FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, General Ledger, and finance operations.
• Experience working on large-scale finance transformation programmes.
• Strong testing, QA, UAT, or test governance experience.
• Ability to challenge delivery partners and provide objective recommendations.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Act as the business lead and SME for Workday Financials and Adaptive Planning.
• Support finance transformation initiatives across budgeting, forecasting, planning, reporting, GL, and finance operations.
• Work closely with implementation partners and internal stakeholders to review solutions and delivery progress.
• Champion a 'test early, test often' approach throughout the programme lifecycle.
• Review defects, challenge assumptions, and help drive effective resolution of issues.
• Provide independent advice and recommendations to business stakeholders.
• Support business readiness, adoption, and go-live activities.

Skills

FP&A

Budgeting

Forecasting

Finance operations

Stakeholder management

QA/UAT governance

Tools

Workday Adaptive Planning

Workday Financials

Job description

Here at Focus Cloud, we are working with a Toronto-based organization embarking on a major finance transformation programme centred around the implementation of Workday Financials and Workday Adaptive Planning. They are looking for a hands‑on Workday Adaptive & Finance Lead to act as a trusted advisor to the business, providing independent oversight of the implementation while partnering with Finance, Technology, and delivery teams to ensure successful outcomes.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who combines strong Finance process knowledge with deep Workday implementation experience and enjoys being a key voice in solution quality, testing, and programme governance.

What You'll Be Doing

• Act as the business lead and SME for Workday Financials and Adaptive Planning
• Support finance transformation initiatives across budgeting, forecasting, planning, reporting, GL, and finance operations
• Work closely with implementation partners and internal stakeholders to review solutions and delivery progress
• Champion a "test early, test often" approach throughout the programme lifecycle
• Review defects, challenge assumptions, and help drive effective resolution of issues
• Provide independent advice and recommendations to business stakeholders
• Support business readiness, adoption, and go-live activities

What We're Looking For

• Strong experience with Workday Adaptive Planning
• Background in FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, General Ledger, and finance operations
• Experience working on large-scale finance transformation programmes
• Strong testing, QA, UAT, or test governance experience
• Ability to challenge delivery partners and provide objective recommendations
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills

Additional Information

• Hybrid role based in Toronto (2-3 days onsite)
• Initial engagement expected to run for approximately 20-24 months
• Adaptive Planning go-live targeted for March 2027
• Workday Financials go-live targeted for May 2028