Senior Workday Transformation Manager

Reports to Transformation Change Lead

Aztec are looking for a self-motivated and driven individual to deliver change management at a programme level to support the delivery of Aztec’s People and Finance Transformation Programme.

Reporting directly to the Transformation Change Lead, this role will play a key role in shaping how Aztec adopts and optimises the Workday platform working with the core Programme/Project Team.  The purpose of this role is to manage and lead the people change activities focussing on change adoption and benefit realisation with a key purpose to adapting our ways of working and enhance our employee experience.

The successful candidate will need to have significant experience in delivering change management within a numerous Workday implementations across all modules within Workday HR and Finance, possess deep expertise in change management strategies and a solid understanding of Workday and will receive significant exposure to senior executives in a fast paced and high-growth business and transformation.

This role provides the opportunity to play a pivotal role in delivering a new operating model and input to broader transformation to support the Aztecs growth ambitions.

Key responsibilities:

• Develop and implement change management plans for the proposed change based on Aztec’s Change Management Methodology (including stakeholder analysis, change impact assessments, change plans, business readiness, and change interventions) to drive adoption and ensure a smooth and successful implementation of the initiative.
• Adopt the change management toolkits and frameworks from the Transformation Team to support the successful implementation of the change through a structured approach, working with the Change Team to adapt where necessary to deliver the size and complexity of change.
• Identify behavioural changes required at all levels across the organisation resulting from the proposed change and identify and execute appropriate change activities to create sustainable adoption of new behaviours.
• Identify and build strong relationships with stakeholders at all levels across the organisation, including HR, IT, finance, and other departments, to ensure alignment and support for the Workday project.
• Work closely with the transformation team, programme/project, training, and communications teams as well as the leaders across the business, to facilitate the deployment of change across all teams, ensuring the organisation is ready for change and the impact of adoption levels is monitored consistently through the creation of dashboards that will monitor adoption of Workday and collate qualitative feedback from users to identify areas for improvement
• Work in collaboration with the communication and training teams to develop communications and training plans and design materials associated with the proposed changes
• Based on the change impact assessment outcomes, work with the Change Team to align change plans with other programme initiatives and make a judgement on impacted stakeholder’s change readiness and whether certain populations have too much change and make recommendations to adjust the plans accordingly.
• Identify and manage any resistance to change across the organisation through the development of strategies and frameworks which increase the success of change initiatives.
• Evaluate the impact of change activities through structured post implementation reviews and feedback analysis, ensuring that future change management initiatives are developed using lessons learnt and the approach and delivery of change continually evolves across the business to optimise processes and procedures in alignment with Workday capabilities.
• Develop and support a change management network by influencing and closely supporting change community, providing consistent approaches, tools, methods and coaching.
• Champion the development of continuous improvement culture which will help deliver a continuously evolving and improving client and user experience. Together with the Change team, work on upskilling the business in change management.
• Involve people in the process of contributing or shaping change plans – create a coherent working change vision which enables people to see clearly in their own minds where the change will take them.

Skills, experience, characteristics, qualifications:

• 7 + years working in a change environment with demonstratable success in delivering benefits on a project
• Proficiency in and strong knowledge of Workday HCM, Financials, Payroll, or other relevant modules or similar ERP platforms
• Change Management/Programme/Project qualifications with proven use of tools and methodologies
• Experience in delivering alternative fund servicing solutions preferable but not mandatory
• Deep understanding in change from a behaviour, process and technology perspective.  Can have a spike in one area but will need some experience in both other areas
• Proven experience leading change management initiatives within a project/ programme at a global level including Workday implementations.
• Can evidence planning, executing, and monitoring the execution of change and how to maximise adoption levels
• Exposure to the entire programme / project lifecycle with proven track record of change management within a transformation programme
• Attentive individual who is comfortable with delivering detailed outputs as well as executive level summaries
• Strong project management skills, including the ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines.
• Strong experience in identifying and managing change risks
• Strong experience working in a technology engagement environment
• Excellent communication: communicates with clarity and confidence at all levels; adapts style and content to the needs of the audience by being inspirational. Energises people to drive change/ growth, highly adaptable to new situations and agile working cross borders or teams
• Stakeholder management: An ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders across all levels of seniority. Working in cross-functional and cross jurisdictional teams to ensure positive outcomes for clients and people.
• Influencing and relationship building proactively builds productive and open and trusting relationships with internal and external stakeholders; presents robust and convincing positions in the face of challenge while remaining respectful of others’ views; negotiates effectively to agree realistic outcomes.
• Delivering results remains calm, effective, and positive even when under pressure; takes ownership for delivering outcomes and is highlight pragmatic and action orientated.
• Initiative and problem solving identifies problems, provides / facilitates the creation of options and recommendations, and uses initiative to drive solutions in a positive and constructive manner; whilst being able to identify and manages risk.
• Change Management & Adoption: ability to focus on the human side of change by building and delivery change management strategies and plans to increase adoption and the success of the acceptance of benefits.

We will provide the training, both in house for relevant technical knowledge and also professional qualifications to enhance your professional development. You will need to be quick to learn new systems and great with people, as close working relationships between our colleagues and clients is at the heart of what we do.