Lead Workday Financials Delivery Manager

Accenture PLC; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a delivery-focused Workday Project Manager to lead complex Workday programs from mobilization through stabilization. You will own the delivery plan, drive governance, and coordinate cross-functional teams acrossWorkday workstreams, data conversions, security, and testing to achieve business outcomes.

The role emphasizes proactive decision-making, disciplined governance, and executive stakeholder alignment, with proven senior-client relationship skills and global delivery

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of experience leading enterprise technology or business transformation initiatives.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience managing Workday implementations or deployments.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams spanning functional, technical, integration, data, security, reporting, testing, and change disciplines.
• Experience with project financials, forecasting, staffing, and commercial management.
• Active Workday certification or relevant delivery training is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead Workday implementation, deployment, optimization, or managed services programs from mobilization through stabilization and transition.
• Own the integrated delivery plan, including scope, schedule, milestones, dependencies, resources, budget, deliverables, and acceptance criteria.
• Establish project governance, decision forums, status reporting, escalation paths, and documentation standards.
• Drive cross-functional coordination across Workday functional workstreams, integrations, data conversion, security, reporting, testing, change management, training, cutover, and deployment.
• Partner with client sponsors and workstream leaders to clarify priorities, resolve decisions, manage expectations, and maintain alignment to business outcomes.
• Maintain active management of risks, actions, issues, decisions, assumptions, and dependencies, with clear owners, target dates, and escalation when progress stalls.
• Monitor delivery health and take timely corrective action to protect scope, schedule, quality, budget, and client satisfaction.
• Lead project financial management, including forecasting, staffing, utilization, change control, commercial tracking, and variances against the approved plan.
• Plan and facilitate executive steering committees, program leadership meetings, project status reviews, and working sessions that result in clear decisions and actions.
• Coordinate release, testing, cutover, readiness, and go-live activities, including entry and exit criteria, command-center planning, and stabilization governance.
• Ensure delivery methods, quality controls, security expectations, and contractual commitments are understood and followed across the project team.
• Lead, coach, and develop project management team members while promoting collaboration, inclusion, accountability, and sustainable ways of working.
• Build trusted relationships with clients, Workday, ecosystem partners, and internal stakeholders to support successful delivery and future opportunities.
• Contribute to sales pursuits, solution shaping, estimates, delivery approaches, staffing plans, proposals, and transition from sales to delivery.
• Capture lessons learned, reusable assets, and delivery insights that strengthen the Workday practice and improve future engagements.

Skills

Delivery leadership

Workday experience

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder management

Financial management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

Tools

Workday

Job description

Accenture is seeking a delivery-focused Workday Project Manager to lead complex Workday programs from mobilization through stabilization. You will own the delivery plan, drive governance, and coordinate cross-functional teams acrossWorkday workstreams, data conversions, security, and testing to achieve business outcomes.

The role emphasizes proactive decision-making, disciplined governance, and executive stakeholder alignment, with proven senior-client relationship skills and global delivery