Workday Financials PMO
Contract: 6–12 months
Location: London / Hybrid
On-site: Ideally 1 day per week in London
Rate: Open to conversation
Overview
We are looking for an experienced Workday Financials PMO to support a Workday Financials programme on a 6–12 month contract.
This is a hands-on PMO role requiring someone who has previously worked as a PMO on Workday Financials programmes and understands the delivery governance, controls and complexities associated with Workday Finance implementations and transformations.
You will work closely with the Programme Director, Project Managers, Workstream Leads, Finance stakeholders and implementation partners to ensure the programme is well governed, organised and progressing against key milestones.
Key Responsibilities
You must have:
Contract: 6–12 months
Location: London / Hybrid
On-site: Ideally 1 day per week in London
Rate: Open to conversation
Overview
We are looking for an experienced Workday Financials PMO to support a Workday Financials programme on a 6–12 month contract.
This is a hands-on PMO role requiring someone who has previously worked as a PMO on Workday Financials programmes and understands the delivery governance, controls and complexities associated with Workday Finance implementations and transformations.
You will work closely with the Programme Director, Project Managers, Workstream Leads, Finance stakeholders and implementation partners to ensure the programme is well governed, organised and progressing against key milestones.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide PMO support across the Workday Financials programme.
- Establish and maintain programme governance, processes and reporting.
- Own programme RAID logs, actions, decisions, dependencies and risks.
- Maintain integrated programme plans, milestones and key deliverables.
- Coordinate programme governance meetings, steering committees and working groups.
- Produce high-quality programme status reports and management information.
- Track budgets, resources, forecasts and programme financials.
- Coordinate activities across Workday Financials workstreams and third-party partners.
- Support programme-level planning, issue resolution and dependency management.
- Ensure programme documentation, governance and controls are maintained to a high standard.
- Support cutover, testing, deployment and programme readiness activities where required.
- Provide clear and concise reporting to senior stakeholders.
You must have:
- Previous experience working as a PMO on Workday Financials programmes (WORKDAY EXPERIENCE IS ESSENTIAL)
- Strong understanding of Workday Financials programme delivery and governance.
- Experience supporting large-scale Workday implementations, transformations or deployments.
- Strong programme governance, planning and reporting experience.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Experience managing RAID, dependencies, actions, milestones and programme reporting.
- Ability to operate confidently with senior programme, Finance and technology stakeholders.
- Strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a complex programme environment.
- Experience within financial services, insurance or another regulated environment.
- Experience across multiple Workday Financials modules.
- Experience working with Workday implementation partners / SI partners.
- Experience supporting global or multi-country Workday programmes.
- Previous experience with Workday HCM alongside Financials.
- Experience supporting testing, cutover or go-live phases.
- 6–12 month contract
- London-based
- Ideally 1 day per week on-site in London, with the remainder remote/hybrid
- Rate: Open to conversation, dependent on experience
