Workday- Project Manager

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

Choosing Capgemini means choosing a company where you will be empowered to shape your career in the way you’d like, where you’ll be supported and inspired bya collaborative community of colleagues around the world, and where you’ll be able to reimagine what’s possible. Join us and help the world’s leading organizationsunlock the value of technology and build a more sustainable, more inclusive world.

About The Job You're Considering

Capgemini is seeking an experienced Workday Project Manager to lead the successful delivery of Workday transformation initiatives across Human Capital Management (HCM), Finance, Payroll, Time Tracking, Absence, Talent, Recruiting, Benefits, Learning, Integrations, Reporting, and Analytics. This role is responsible for managing the full project lifecycle, from strategy and planning through deployment, stabilization, and ongoing optimization.

The ideal candidate will possess a strong blend of project management expertise, Workday functional knowledge, stakeholder engagement skills, and consulting experience. This individual will partner with client executives, business leaders, HR organizations, and technical teams to drive large-scale enterprise transformation programs while ensuring delivery excellence, quality, governance, and business value realization.

Project Managers are responsible for overseeing the project/engagement/contract/activity on a daily basis and are responsible for delivering high-quality results within the identified objectives and constraints, ensuring the effective use of the allocated resources. They are responsible for risk and issue management, project/engagement communication and stakeholder management. Project managers perform the activities of planning, organising, securing, monitoring and managing the resources and work necessary to deliver specific project goals and objectives in an effective and efficient way. Responsible for ensuring that client needs are satisfied through the formulation, development, implementation and delivery of application solutions in response to client requirements, expressed in approved service requests. PM are responsible for the overall projectorengagement plan, budget, structure, schedule and staffing requirements for the delivery organization. PM ensure that the project meets its deliverables in an agreed schedule, according to the scope, within stipulated budget, and to quality standards.

Your Role

• Lead end-to-end Workday implementation, enhancement, optimization, migration, and Application Management Services (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, Compensation, 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.
• Leverage emerging technologies, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), Generative AI, automation, and analytics capabilities, to enhance project delivery and operational efficiencies.

Your Skills And Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Information Systems, Computer Science, Finance, Accounting, Management, Organizational Development, or a related field.
• 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.