Contract Workday Finance Project Manager - £1150 - £1300 (inside IR35) - 18 months contract Role Summary We are supporting a confidential global organisation with a major finance transformation programme and are looking for an experienced Contract Workday Finance Project Manager to take ownership of delivery from the client side.
This is a senior, hands-on delivery role, working opposite a Tier 1 systems integrator. You will be responsible for driving governance, managing programme controls, challenging delivery assumptions, protecting timelines and ensuring the programme lands successfully in a complex, regulated environment.
This role will suit a seasoned contract Project Manager who has delivered finance transformation programmes before and is comfortable operating with senior stakeholders, executive sponsors, consulting partners and delivery teams.
The Opportunity You will act as the client-side delivery lead across a high-profile finance transformation programme. The organisation is investing significantly in modernising its finance systems, controls, reporting and operating model.
Your role will be to make sure the programme is properly governed, commercially controlled and delivered against agreed outcomes.
This is not a passive coordination role. The client needs someone who can take control, hold vendors to account, manage senior stakeholders and keep delivery moving under pressure.
Key Responsibilities
You will be commercially aware, structured, direct and outcome-led. You will understand how large finance transformation programmes can drift, and you will know how to keep governance tight, vendors honest and stakeholders aligned.
You do not need to be a deep functional finance consultant, but you must understand enough about finance processes, systems delivery and regulated environments to challenge effectively.
Strong Fit For This Role This role is likely to suit someone who has:
This is a senior, hands-on delivery role, working opposite a Tier 1 systems integrator. You will be responsible for driving governance, managing programme controls, challenging delivery assumptions, protecting timelines and ensuring the programme lands successfully in a complex, regulated environment.
This role will suit a seasoned contract Project Manager who has delivered finance transformation programmes before and is comfortable operating with senior stakeholders, executive sponsors, consulting partners and delivery teams.
The Opportunity You will act as the client-side delivery lead across a high-profile finance transformation programme. The organisation is investing significantly in modernising its finance systems, controls, reporting and operating model.
Your role will be to make sure the programme is properly governed, commercially controlled and delivered against agreed outcomes.
This is not a passive coordination role. The client needs someone who can take control, hold vendors to account, manage senior stakeholders and keep delivery moving under pressure.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the client-side delivery of a major finance transformation programme.
- Manage day-to-day programme governance, reporting, milestones, RAID, dependencies and critical path.
- Act as the senior delivery counterpart to a Tier 1 systems integrator.
- Challenge assumptions, plans, timelines and delivery risks where required.
- Ensure programme activity aligns to business outcomes, controls, finance processes and reporting requirements.
- Engage confidently with senior stakeholders, including executive sponsors, finance leadership, consulting partners and programme teams.
- Track progress against scope, milestones, budget, dependencies and agreed deliverables.
- Identify risks early and drive clear mitigation plans.
- Maintain control across multiple workstreams in a complex, regulated environment.
- Ensure the programme maintains pace without compromising quality, control or governance.
- Proven experience delivering Workday Financials programmes as a Project Manager or higher role delivering Workday Finance transformation projects.
- Experience delivering complex finance transformation programmes.
- Experience managing consulting-led delivery models and working opposite Tier 1 systems integrators.
- Strong programme governance capability, including RAID, milestones, critical path, dependencies, issue resolution and executive reporting.
- Solid understanding of core finance processes, including R2R, P2P, controls, reporting and finance operations.
- Proven ability to manage senior stakeholders and operate at executive level.
- Strong delivery discipline and the confidence to hold vendors, partners and internal teams to account.
- Previous contract delivery experience in fast-moving, high-pressure environments.
- Previous client-side delivery roles working opposite Big 4 or Tier 1/Tier 2 Workday consultancies.
- Regulatory reporting or financial control programme exposure.
- Global or multi-entity finance programme delivery.
- Experience working across both client-side and consultancy environments.
You will be commercially aware, structured, direct and outcome-led. You will understand how large finance transformation programmes can drift, and you will know how to keep governance tight, vendors honest and stakeholders aligned.
You do not need to be a deep functional finance consultant, but you must understand enough about finance processes, systems delivery and regulated environments to challenge effectively.
Strong Fit For This Role This role is likely to suit someone who has:
- Delivered Workday Financials, Oracle Financials or SAP Finance transformation programmes.
- Worked client-side and understands how to manage a systems integrator properly.
- Operated in insurance, banking, asset management, financial services or another regulated environment.
- Delivered under pressure with executive visibility.
- Taken ownership of governance, delivery control and stakeholder management.
- Built credibility quickly with finance, technology and consulting teams.
- Contract role for 12-18 months. The role will be Inside IR35 but will carry a strong day rate
- Confidential client
- Finance transformation programme
- Client-side delivery position
- Working opposite a Tier 1 systems integrator
- Regulated enterprise environment
I am urgently looking to fill this role for a new customer. Please reach out asap.
