Workday Financials Delivery Lead SMR

Accenture•Chicago, TX

About The Position

Accenture is hiring a Workday Delivery Lead to lead complex Workday programs from mobilization through stabilization and transition. The role combines delivery leadership, client and engagement financial management, sales opportunity management, commercial performance, and team leadership. The lead aligns senior business and technology stakeholders around measurable outcomes and works across client executives, Workday functional and technical teams, third parties, and global delivery teams. Responsibilities span Workday implementation, deployment, optimization, and application managed services. The lead owns integrated delivery strategy and plans, governance, delivery health, financial performance, client relationships, sales pipeline progression, and coordination of cross-functional workstreams. The role also coaches teams, supports future client opportunities, and captures reusable insights to improve the Workday practice.

Requirements

At least 8 years of experience leading enterprise technology, ERP, or business transformation initiatives, including end-to-end delivery responsibility.
At least 4 years of experience leading Workday implementation, deployment, optimization, or support engagements.
At least 4 years of experience leading at least two end-to-end Workday deployments through planning, design, configuration, testing, cutover, go-live, and stabilization.
At least 4 years of experience leading cross-functional teams spanning functional, technical, integration, data, security, reporting, testing, and change disciplines.
Bachelor's degree or equivalent, with a minimum of 12 years of work experience; applicants with an associate degree must have at least 6 years of work experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience managing scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, quality, and change control.
Experience communicating with executive sponsors and translating delivery details into concise, decision-oriented reporting.
Experience managing client and engagement financials, including budgets, forecasts, staffing, utilization, margin, invoicing, commercial performance, and contract obligations in consulting or client services.
Experience managing a sales opportunity pipeline, including identifying and qualifying opportunities, discovering client needs, shaping solutions, estimating, developing proposals, supporting sales-stage governance, and coordinating with account and practice leadership.
Working knowledge of Workday implementation methods and lifecycle activities, including tenant strategy, testing cycles, data conversion, integrations, security, cutover, and production readiness.
Ability to lead distributed teams and collaborate across client, partner, vendor, and global delivery organizations.
Experience leading large, multi-workstream, multi-country, or global Workday transformation programs.
Experience with Workday Human Capital Management, Financial Management, Payroll, Adaptive Planning, Supply Chain Management, or cross-platform transformation programs.
Active Workday certification or completed Workday delivery training relevant to program leadership.
Recognized delivery, project, program, or agile credential such as PMP, PgMP, SAFe, Scrum, or equivalent.
Experience recovering challenged programs, managing complex commercial situations, or leading high-risk cutover and deployment activities.
External client-facing consulting experience and a track record of managing sales opportunities, supporting pursuits, shaping solutions, and contributing to account growth.
Experience leading distributed, offshore, or global delivery teams and third-party vendors.

Responsibilities

Lead Workday implementation, deployment, optimization, or application managed services programs from mobilization through stabilization and transition.
Own the integrated delivery strategy and plan, including scope, schedule, milestones, dependencies, resources, deliverables, acceptance criteria, financials, and contractual commitments.
Establish program governance, decision forums, status reporting, escalation paths, quality controls, and documentation standards.
Coordinate Workday functional workstreams and related integration, data conversion, security, reporting, testing, change management, training, cutover, deployment, and support activities.
Partner with client sponsors and program leaders to clarify priorities, resolve decisions, manage expectations, and maintain alignment to business outcomes.
Manage risks, actions, issues, decisions, assumptions, and dependencies, including ownership, deadlines, mitigation plans, and escalation.
Monitor delivery health and take corrective action to protect scope, schedule, quality, budget, team sustainability, and client satisfaction.
Manage client and engagement financials, including budget planning, revenue and cost forecasting, staffing and utilization, margin performance, invoicing, change control, commercial tracking, variance analysis, and corrective action.
Plan and facilitate executive steering committees, program leadership meetings, status reviews, and working sessions that produce clear decisions and actions.
Coordinate release, testing, cutover, operational readiness, go-live, command-center, and stabilization activities using evidence-based entry and exit criteria.
Ensure delivery methods, quality controls, security expectations, and contractual commitments are understood and followed.
Lead, coach, and develop project managers and cross-functional team members while promoting collaboration, inclusion, accountability, and sustainable ways of working.
Build trusted relationships with clients, Workday, ecosystem partners, third parties, and internal stakeholders to support delivery and future opportunities.
Identify, qualify, and manage expansion and follow-on sales opportunities; partner with account, sales, and practice leadership to shape solutions, estimates, proposals, staffing strategies, presentations, and sales-to-delivery transitions.
Track sales pipeline opportunities, next steps, owners, dependencies, and risks, and support progression through sales-stage governance.
Capture lessons learned, reusable assets, and delivery insights to strengthen the Workday practice and improve future engagements.