Workday Financials Program Delivery Lead

Accenture PLC; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a delivery-focused Workday Project Manager to lead enterprise Workday programs in a fast-paced environment. You will bring structure to complex programs, manage cross-functional teams, and build trusted client relationships to achieve clear outcomes.

You will own integrated delivery plans, governances, risk management, and financials, partnering with sponsors and Workday teams to drive on-time, on-budget delivery while ensuring high-quality results.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of experience leading enterprise technology or business transformation initiatives.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience managing Workday implementation, deployment, optimization, or support engagements.
• Minimum of 3 years leading Workday deployment through planning, design, configuration, testing, cutover, go-live, and stabilization.
• Experience with project financials, forecasting, staffing, and commercial management in a consulting or client-services environment.

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 appropriate to the engagement.
• 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.

Skills

Workday delivery

Project management

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Risk management

Program governance

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Workday

Job description

Accenture is seeking a delivery-focused Workday Project Manager to lead enterprise Workday programs in a fast-paced environment. You will bring structure to complex programs, manage cross-functional teams, and build trusted client relationships to achieve clear outcomes.

You will own integrated delivery plans, governances, risk management, and financials, partnering with sponsors and Workday teams to drive on-time, on-budget delivery while ensuring high-quality results.