Hybrid Workday Cutover Lead (9-Month FTC)

RSM UK; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

26 Days Holiday

Wellbeing benefits

Access to courses

Job summary

RSM UK is seeking a Workday Cutover Lead for a 9-month fixed-term contract. The role is responsible for planning and delivering a controlled go-live across complex enterprise applications, with decommissioning of legacy systems after cutover.

You will establish cutover strategy, detailed runbooks, readiness criteria and governance, ensuring minimal disruption to business operations and clear stakeholder accountability.

Qualifications

• Experience with Workday, Dynamics 365, finance or HR implementations in enterprise environments.
• Experience coordinating decommissioning of legacy applications including archive, access and audit considerations.
• Knowledge of data migration, integration validation and service transition practices.
• Experience using project delivery tools such as Monday.com, Miro, Power BI or Visio.

Responsibilities

• Lead cutover strategy, governance model and integrated cutover plan.
• Develop detailed cutover runbooks, dependency maps and command-and-control procedures.
• Coordinate readiness inputs across testing, data migration, integration, security, infrastructure and service transition.
• Provide Go/No-Go readiness recommendations for programme and senior stakeholder forums.
• Manage stakeholder engagement and execution governance for a controlled go-live.

Skills

Workday

Dynamics 365

Finance

HR

Decommissioning

Tools

Monday.com

Miro

Power BI

Visio

Job description

RSM UK is seeking a Workday Cutover Lead for a 9-month fixed-term contract. The role is responsible for planning and delivering a controlled go-live across complex enterprise applications, with decommissioning of legacy systems after cutover.

You will establish cutover strategy, detailed runbooks, readiness criteria and governance, ensuring minimal disruption to business operations and clear stakeholder accountability.