Workday Change Manager – Workday Financials Deployment
Contract: 6 months (circa)
Location: London – ideally 1 day per week on-site
Rate: Open to conversation
Role Overview
We are looking for an experienced Workday Change Manager to support a Workday Financials deployment programme on an initial circa 6-month contract.
The successful candidate will have strong experience delivering organisational change within Workday programmes, having supported at least two Workday Financials implementations/deployments.
You will be responsible for driving change adoption across impacted business areas, ensuring stakeholders are engaged, prepared and equipped to work effectively with the new Workday Financials solution.
Please note, Workday Deployment experience is required!
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the change management strategy and delivery for the Workday Financials deployment.
- Assess organisational and business impacts resulting from the implementation.
- Develop and execute change, communications and stakeholder engagement plans.
- Work closely with Workday, programme, business and functional teams to ensure change activity is aligned with the deployment roadmap.
- Identify key stakeholder groups, assess readiness and manage resistance to change.
- Develop and coordinate communications and engagement activities throughout the programme.
- Support the design and delivery of training and user-readiness activities.
- Help ensure business users are adequately prepared for go-live and transition into the new ways of working.
- Monitor adoption, readiness and change risks, escalating issues where appropriate.
- Support post-go-live adoption and embedding of new Workday processes.
Essential Experience
- Proven experience as a Change Manager within Workday transformation programmes.
- Strong experience supporting Workday Financials deployments/implementations.
- Ideally, experience across two Workday Financials projects.
- Demonstrable experience across the full change lifecycle, from impact assessment through to go-live and adoption.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to engage both senior leadership and business users.
- Experience working in complex, multi-stakeholder transformation environments.
- Ability to work independently and take ownership of change deliverables.
Desirable Experience
- Workday Financials training experience, including training needs analysis, training materials, train-the-trainer or end-user training.
- Experience supporting multiple Workday modules or broader Workday transformation programmes.
- Experience working within large-scale Finance transformation programmes.
- Workday certification or formal Workday training would be advantageous.
Contract & Working Pattern
- Initial contract: circa 6 months
- Location: London
- On-site requirement: ideally 1 day per week in London
- Rate: Open to conversation, depending on experience and fit
- Start date: To be discussed
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Workday Change Manager to join a significant Workday Financials deployment and play a key role in ensuring successful business adoption and transition.
