Senior Workday Financials Delivery Leader

Accenture PLC; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 101,000 - 245,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401(k) plan

Paid holidays and time off

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a delivery-focused Workday Project Manager in Seattle to bring structure to complex programs, build trusted client relationships, and lead cross-functional teams toward clear outcomes. You’ll coordinate Workday deployments, manage budgets, and maintain alignment between business and technology stakeholders.

Your role requires senior-level communication with client leaders, Workday functional and technical teams, and partners.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience leading enterprise technology or business transformation initiatives.
• Minimum 3 years of experience managing Workday implementation, deployment, optimization, or support.
• Minimum 3 years leading Workday deployment through planning, design, configuration, testing, cutover, go-live, and stabilization.
• Experience managing cross-functional teams spanning functional, technical, integration, data, security, reporting, testing, and change disciplines.
• Demonstrated experience managing project scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, quality, and change control.
• Experience with project financials, forecasting, staffing, and commercial management in a consulting environment.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience; professional certifications a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead Workday implementation, deployment, optimization, or application 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.

Skills

Project management

Workday

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Budgeting

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

Job description

Accenture is seeking a delivery-focused Workday Project Manager in Seattle to bring structure to complex programs, build trusted client relationships, and lead cross-functional teams toward clear outcomes. You’ll coordinate Workday deployments, manage budgets, and maintain alignment between business and technology stakeholders.

Your role requires senior-level communication with client leaders, Workday functional and technical teams, and partners.