Workday Project Manager

4 weeks ago

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Northridge Recruitment Full time

My client are currently going through a merger with another business operating in a similar market. As part of the integration work, there is a need to migrate one entity onto the existing Workday platform utilised by the other. As such, they are looking for a Project Manager to join them on a contract basis to lead the migration process. The right candidate will have equal experience working across both the HR and Finance elements of Workday.



Job purpose:

Responsible for the end-to-end implementation, associated governance, and organisational readiness of Workday HCM, Finances & Payroll. Working closely with People, Finance, and IT colleagues, responsible for project vision, objectives, and scope, solution design, delivery, and embedding.



Key responsibilities

  • matter expert for Workday, supporting People and Finance workstreams to understand Workday design concepts and capabilities.
  • leadership and direction to the project and programme throughout the duration of requirements capture, design, build, implementation, and post launch support.
  • end-to-end planning process, approach, and guidelines, ensuring project plan is complete, fully integrated with key dependencies known.
  • strong relationships with business stakeholders, analysing current business processes in-scope for migration to Workday.
  • closely with other functional/technical leads to ensure a cohesive design and that cross-functional impacts are considered and mitigated.
  • and ensuring that the programme benefits are being enabled as part of the solution design and appropriate tracking and reporting mechanisms have been put in place.
  • organisational requirements and translate into Workday configuration work packages.
  • research new functionality/modules and provide recommendations on new features that could be used to improve effectiveness, efficiency, and user experience.
  • to day management of key stakeholders, (including external partners) throughout the implementation and hyper-care phases of deployment.



Key skills

  • stakeholder, relationship management and negotiating skills across several hierarchical levels in local and virtual teams.
  • interpersonal skills with the ability to explain complex process or technical issues to a wide range of stakeholders.
  • critical thinking, questioning existing processes and improving the ‘as is’



Knowledge/ Previous Experience

  • knowledge and experience of Workday covering HCM, Learning, Recruitment and Financials.
  • experience of embedding new systems, ways of working and business change within a complex environment.
  • experience in transformation projects, process redesign and migrating existing systems into Workday.
  • to manage multiple and conflicting priorities with frequent changes, often at short notice
  • of managing external workstreams, negotiating scope and tracking through to delivery and sign off.




If you are interested in the role, please respond to the advert.

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