Workday Financials Project 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

We Are

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps organizations build their digital core, optimize operations, accelerate revenue growth, and enhance services. We combine our strength in technology with deep industry experience, functional expertise, and global delivery capabilities to help clients reinvent how they operate and create lasting value.

Our Workday practice helps clients transform finance, human resources, planning, payroll, and related enterprise processes through Workday strategy, implementation, optimization, and application managed services. Our teams bring together business, functional, technical, data, integration, change, and program leadership capabilities to deliver measurable outcomes.

You Are

A delivery-focused Workday Project Manager who can bring structure to complex programs, build trusted client relationships, and lead cross-functional teams toward clear outcomes. You understand that successful Workday delivery requires more than maintaining a plan. It requires proactive decision-making, disciplined governance, transparent risk management, commercial awareness, and the ability to keep business and technology stakeholders aligned.

You are comfortable operating with senior client leaders, Workday functional and technical teams, third parties, and global delivery teams. You communicate clearly, anticipate issues before they become obstacles, and create an environment where teams can deliver high-quality work with accountability and confidence.

The Work

• 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.

• 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.

Here’s What You Need

• Minimum of 5 years of experience leading enterprise technology or business transformation initiatives, including responsibility for integrated project delivery.

• 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 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 or client-services environment.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associates Degree, must have minimum 6 years of work experience) helor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work exper(If Associates Degree, must have minimum 6 years of work experience)

Bonus Points If

• Experience communicating with executive sponsors and translating detailed delivery information into concise, decision-oriented reporting.

• Working knowledge of Workday implementation methods and lifecycle activities, including tenant strategy, testing cycles, data conversion, integrations, cutover, and production readiness.

• Demonstrated experience managing project scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, quality, and change control.

• Experience communicating with executive sponsors and translating detailed delivery information into concise, decision-oriented reporting.

• Experience with project financials, forecasting, staffing, and commercial ma

• You have led large, multi-workstream, multi-country, or global Workday programs.

• You have experience with Workday Human Capital Management, Financial Management, Payroll, Adaptive Planning, or cross-platform transformation programs.

• You hold an active Workday certification or have completed Workday delivery training relevant to program or project leadership.

• You hold a recognized project or agile credential, such as PMP, PgMP, SAFe, Scrum, or an equivalent certification.

• You have experience recovering challenged programs or leading complex cutover and deployment activities.

• You have external client-facing consulting experience and experience supporting sales pursuits or solution development.

• You have experience leading distributed, offshore, or global delivery teams and third-party vendors.

What Success Looks Like

• Clients have confidence in the plan, the team, and the accuracy of delivery reporting.

• The project operates with clear ownership, timely decisions, controlled change, and visible management of delivery risk.

• Cross-functional teams stay aligned to milestones and quality expectations while maintaining a collaborative working environment.

• Engagement financials, staffing, and contractual commitments are actively managed and understood.

• Go-live readiness is evidence-based, and transition to stabilization or support is planned and executed with minimal disruption.

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We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 12/14/2026.

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