Strategic Workday Project Manager - Transformation Leader

Capgemini; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Capgemini, a global technology leader, seeks an experienced Workday Project Manager in the United States to lead large-scale Workday transformations across HCM, Finance, Payroll, and more. You will guide strategy, planning, and deployment, partnering with executives, HR, and technical teams to deliver enterprise value.

The role emphasizes delivery excellence, governance, and stakeholder engagement, with opportunities to leverage AI, automation, and analytics to optimize programs and outcomes.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of project management experience leading enterprise software or cloud transformation programs.
• 5+ years of experience managing Workday implementation, deployment, enhancement, or AMS engagements.
• Experience overseeing Workday programs across HCM, Finance, Payroll, and related modules.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end Workday implementation, enhancement, optimization, migration, and AMS engagements.
• Manage project scope, budget, resource planning, timelines, risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, and change control processes.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for client stakeholders, executive sponsors, and delivery teams throughout the engagement lifecycle.
• Develop and manage project plans, work breakdown structures, staffing models, milestones, status reporting, and governance frameworks.
• Coordinate cross-functional Workday teams including HCM, Payroll, Benefits, Talent, Recruiting, Learning, Finance, Integrations, Reporting, Security, and Data Conversion workstreams.
• Facilitate discovery sessions, design workshops, solution reviews, conference room pilots, user acceptance testing (UAT), and deployment readiness assessments.
• Drive alignment between business requirements, Workday leading practices, and organizational transformation objectives.
• Lead project governance meetings, steering committee reviews, executive status updates, and stakeholder communications.
• Monitor project health through KPIs, delivery metrics, RAID logs, quality reviews, and financial management reporting.
• Manage client expectations, resolve escalations, and proactively identify risks and mitigation strategies.
• Ensure compliance with Workday release management processes, testing requirements, and organizational governance standards.
• Collaborate with integration, reporting, security, change management, and training teams to ensure successful adoption and business readiness.
• Support organizational change management efforts, communications planning, and stakeholder engagement activities.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives and identify opportunities for process optimization and business value realization.
• Mentor project team members and promote delivery excellence, collaboration, innovation, and knowledge sharing.

Skills

Project management

Workday

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Risk management

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Job description

Capgemini, a global technology leader, seeks an experienced Workday Project Manager in the United States to lead large-scale Workday transformations across HCM, Finance, Payroll, and more. You will guide strategy, planning, and deployment, partnering with executives, HR, and technical teams to deliver enterprise value.

The role emphasizes delivery excellence, governance, and stakeholder engagement, with opportunities to leverage AI, automation, and analytics to optimize programs and outcomes.