Workday Senior Manager

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Service line -People Consulting Position Title: HR Transformation Technology – Senior Manager

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About Global Delivery Services

Global Delivery Services refers to EY's worldwide network of service delivery centers. The GDS team plays an important role in EY’s strategy by ensuring effective support to EY’s growth agenda.

Our journey started in 2002 with approximately 200 people. Today we stand at 80,000+ professionals in ten locations around the world. We operate in Argentina, China, Hungary, India, Philippines, Poland, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Spain and the United Kingdom.

Client service is focused on providing Consulting, Assurance, Tax, Strategy & Transactions, and Knowledge support to our clients around the world. The teams enable account teams worldwide to provide seamless, high-quality, value-added support, helping deliver exceptional client service.

Enablement Services provides cost-effective, high-skilled, and innovative services to support EY’s global and local enablement teams. Markets, BMC, AWS, Finance and Accounting, Risk Management, Procurement, People Shared Services, IT Service Delivery and IT Global Infrastructure services, are among the services offered by Enablement Services.

Our innovation specialists serve the GDS Client Service and Enablement Services teams, along with Service Lines, Core Business Services and Sectors. The team brings the desired environment, technologies and skilled teams together for facilitation, rapid prototyping and innovative thinking. The competencies offered include analytics, digital, user experience, mobile technology, infrastructure, Microsoft technologies and open innovation.

The Opportunity

As a Workday Senior Manager, you will lead complex, global Workday and HR transformation programs that help organizations improve their HR operating models, employee experiences, technology capabilities, and workforce outcomes.

You will work with senior HR, IT, Finance, Payroll, and business executives to define HR technology strategies, establish transformation roadmaps, and deliver scalable Workday solutions. You will be accountable for engagement leadership, solution integrity, delivery quality, financial performance, stakeholder management, risk management, and value realization.

You will also play a central role in growing EY’s Workday practice by developing client relationships, leading strategic pursuits, shaping new offerings, strengthening delivery capabilities, and building high-performing teams.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end Workday techno-functional transformation programs across strategy, design, implementation, deployment, stabilization, and optimization.
• Define the overall Workday solution architecture and ensure alignment across functional modules, integrations, data, security, reporting, testing, and change management.
• Advise senior HR, IT, Finance, Payroll, and business stakeholders on Workday strategy, technology roadmaps, operating models, governance, and value realization.
• Oversee complex business process, security, reporting, integration, and data-conversion designs across multiple modules, countries, and business units.
• Lead design-authority forums, review critical solution decisions, and ensure solutions are scalable, secure, standardized, and supportable.
• Provide strategic oversight for EIBs, Core Connectors, APIs, Workday Studio integrations, data migration, and third-party system interfaces.
• Direct program governance, delivery plans, budgets, resources, risks, dependencies, quality controls, and executive reporting.
• Oversee testing, deployment readiness, production transition, release management, post-go-live support, and continuous improvement.
• Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders and lead the resolution of complex functional, technical, and delivery issues.
• Lead strategic pursuits, proposals, solutioning, commercial estimations, account growth, team development, and Workday practice-building initiatives.

Skills and attributes for success

• Extensive experience leading Workday-enabled HR transformation and technology programs.
• Strong understanding of Workday HCM functionality, solution architecture, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Broad knowledge of HR processes across the Hire-to-Retire lifecycle.
• Strong experience in HR process transformation, global operating models, shared services, and digital employee experience.
• Ability to advise senior executives and influence complex organizational decisions.
• Experience directing global and cross-functional delivery teams.
• Strong engagement, commercial, financial, and risk-management capabilities.
• Ability to connect HR strategy, business requirements, operating models, data, and technology.
• Strong understanding of Workday integrations, data migration, security, reporting, testing, deployment, and production-support models.
• Excellent executive communication, facilitation, negotiation, and presentation skills.
• Ability to manage ambiguity, competing priorities, and complex stakeholder environments.
• Strong business-development, proposal-development, and solution-shaping skills.
• Commitment to quality, collaboration, inclusion, integrity, and exceptional client service.

<< Ideally, you’ll also>>

• 12 to 16 years of overall professional experience.
• 7 or more years of Workday HCM consulting, implementation, or transformation experience.
• Experience leading multiple full lifecycle Workday implementations or major Workday transformation programs.
• Functional expertise across multiple Workday HCM modules, with strong depth in at least two or three areas.
• Experience leading global or multi-country Workday programs.
• Experience managing large functional teams and coordinating with multiple technical and business workstreams.
• Experience working with senior HR, IT, Finance, Payroll, and business executives.
• Workday certifications relevant to the functional areas and solutions being led.
• Experience with strategic pursuits, proposal leadership, commercial solutioning, and account development.
• Experience developing HR technology roadmaps, business cases, operating models, and optimization strategies.
• Knowledge of Workday release management, governance, managed services, and continuous-improvement models.
• Experience developing Workday offerings, methodologies, accelerators, and thought leadership.

<< What we look for>>

We are looking for a Workday Senior Manager who combines deep Workday and HR transformation knowledge with strong program, commercial, client, and people leadership.

The successful candidate will be able to engage credibly with senior executives, shape complex transformation programs, guide solution architecture, and maintain accountability for delivery quality and client value.

You should be able to oversee multiple functional and technical workstreams while ensuring that process, data, security, integration, reporting, testing, change, and governance decisions remain aligned.

You will also be expected to contribute actively to market growth, strategic pursuits, account development, practice building, capability development, and the creation of differentiated Workday solutions.

What we offer you

At EY, we’ll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences. We’ll empower you in a flexible environment, and fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn more.

Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.

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Benefits: Embark on a transformative career journey with us and indulge in a suite of premium benefits, encompassing exclusive health and wellness packages, enticing rewards, and cutting-edge learning opportunities that empower you to continually grow and excel in your professional and personal development.

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