Workday Financials Project Manager

ByrdGroup•Grand Rapids, MI

6h•Onsite

About The Position

Acrisure is seeking a Project Manager, Finance Systems Delivery, to lead enterprise-wide Workday Financials implementation and optimization initiatives. Reporting to the Vice President of Financial Systems Delivery, the role guides projects from planning and design through deployment, stabilization, and continuous improvement. The project manager drives scope, schedule, and delivery while incorporating change management to support stakeholder readiness and adoption. The position partners with Finance, IT, HR, and business leaders to ensure solutions meet operational and compliance needs. The role is based in Grand Rapids, and candidates should be comfortable with an on-site presence to support collaboration, team leadership, and cross-functional partnership. Acrisure is a global fintech company with more than 19,000 colleagues in over 20 countries.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, or a related field.
5–8 years of project management experience leading ERP or large-scale financial systems initiatives.
Solid understanding of core financial processes, including general ledger, accounts payable and receivable, cash management, and procurement, as well as related integration and data conversion practices.
Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced, acquisition-driven environment.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to convey complex information to technical and business audiences.
Excellent interpersonal and relationship-building skills to foster collaboration and drive consensus.
Problem-solving and decision-making skills, including anticipating and resolving challenges.
Strong time-management skills and ability to meet deadlines while balancing competing priorities.
Experience integrating change management activities, such as communications, training, and stakeholder engagement, into large enterprise system projects.

Nice To Haves

Workday Financials implementation experience is strongly preferred; experience with another tier-one ERP such as Oracle or SAP is also relevant.

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end Workday Financials implementation projects, including General Ledger, Accounts Payable and Receivable, Procurement, Cash Management, and Fixed Assets, from planning through deployment and hypercare.
Build and maintain project plans and budgets, establish scope, milestones, and resource assignments, and manage dependencies and risks.
Serve as the central contact for stakeholders and steering committees; prepare status reports, updates, and executive presentations.
Direct integration and data migration workstreams to support accurate, secure data movement and connections with other systems.
Incorporate change management activities into project planning to prepare impacted teams for new processes and systems.
Partner with Finance, HR, and business leads on communications, training, and stakeholder engagement plans that support readiness and adoption.
Lead unit, system, integration, and user acceptance testing, including defect resolution and deployment readiness.
Coordinate cutover planning, go-live execution, and hypercare.
Maintain risk, issue, and change-control processes, including RAID tracking and contingency planning.
Embed compliance and internal controls in solution design to meet accounting and audit requirements.
Support user adoption and training and identify opportunities for continuous improvement and future enhancements.