Workday Financials Project Manager

Accenture•Chicago, IL

1d•$80,400 - $266,300

About The Position

Accenture is seeking a delivery-focused Workday Project Manager to lead enterprise Workday programs from mobilization through stabilization and transition. The role owns integrated delivery planning and governance, coordinates cross-functional teams, manages delivery and financial performance, and builds trusted relationships with clients, Workday, ecosystem partners, and internal stakeholders. The Project Manager will support implementations, deployments, optimizations, and application managed services, while contributing to sales pursuits and improvements to Accenture’s Workday practice. The position requires leading teams through the full Workday delivery lifecycle, including planning, design, configuration, testing, cutover, go-live, and stabilization. The Project Manager establishes transparent reporting and decision-making, actively manages risks and dependencies, and takes corrective action to protect scope, schedule, quality, budget, and client satisfaction. Accenture describes success as clients having confidence in delivery plans and reporting, clear ownership and timely decisions, actively managed financials and commitments, aligned teams, and evidence-based go-live readiness. Accenture is a global professional services company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. The company describes its culture as committed to inclusion, diversity, shared success, and creating value for clients, employees, shareholders, partners, and communities.

Requirements

At least 5 years of experience leading enterprise technology or business transformation initiatives, including integrated project delivery responsibility.
At least 3 years of experience managing Workday implementation, deployment, optimization, or support engagements.
At least 3 years leading Workday deployment across 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 work experience (minimum 12 years); alternatively, an associate degree with at least 6 years of work experience.

Nice To Haves

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.
Experience leading large, multi-workstream, multi-country, or global Workday programs.
Experience with Workday Human Capital Management, Financial Management, Payroll, Adaptive Planning, or cross-platform transformation programs.
Active Workday certification or completed Workday delivery training relevant to program or project leadership.
Recognized project or agile credential, such as PMP, PgMP, SAFe, Scrum, or equivalent certification.
Experience recovering challenged programs or leading complex cutover and deployment activities.
External client-facing consulting experience and experience supporting sales pursuits or solution development.
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 plan, including scope, schedule, milestones, dependencies, resources, budget, deliverables, and acceptance criteria.
Establish project governance, decision forums, status reporting, escalation paths, and documentation standards.
Coordinate 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.
Manage risks, actions, issues, decisions, assumptions, and dependencies, with clear owners, target dates, and escalation as needed.
Monitor delivery health and take corrective action to protect scope, schedule, quality, budget, and client satisfaction.
Lead project financial management, including forecasting, staffing, utilization, change control, commercial tracking, and budget variances.
Plan and facilitate executive steering committees, program leadership meetings, status reviews, and working sessions that produce 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.
Lead, coach, and develop project management team members while promoting collaboration, inclusion, accountability, and sustainable ways of working.
Build relationships with clients, Workday, ecosystem partners, and internal stakeholders to support 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 to strengthen the Workday practice.