Manager – Workday Consulting

Putting people first, every day
 

BDO is a firm built on a foundation of positive relationships with our people and our clients. Each day, our professionals provide exceptional service, helping clients with advice and insight they can trust. In turn, we offer an award-winning environment that fosters a people-first culture with a high priority on your personal and professional growth.

Your Opportunity

As a Manager specializing in Workday project delivery, you will be accountable for leading Workday implementations, estimating implementation hour allocations, optimization, and transformation engagements across the full project lifecycle. You will bring structure to complex programs, align client and delivery teams, and maintain clear governance over scope, schedule, budget, quality, risks, and decisions. The role combines hands-on program leadership, trusted client partnership, team development, and contribution to the growth of BDO’s Workday practice. 

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of Workday implementation, enhancement, and transformation engagements from mobilization and planning through go-live, stabilization, and transition to support. 
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, delivery schedules, budgets, resource plans, governance calendars, and milestone reporting across functional and technical workstreams. 
• Establish effective project governance, including decision forums, status reporting, escalation paths, change control, and clear accountability for client and delivery team members. 
• Manage scope, assumptions, dependencies, risks, issues, actions, and decisions, driving timely resolution and transparent escalation when required. 
• Partner with client sponsors, HR and technology leaders, workstream leads, and third parties to confirm priorities, resolve cross-functional impacts, and maintain alignment on outcomes. 
• Lead executive and steering committee communications that clearly present progress, decisions required, risks, financial status, and recovery actions. 
• Build trusted client relationships by setting clear expectations, communicating directly, and maintaining a strong focus on business outcomes and user adoption. 
• Lead, coach, and support multidisciplinary teams, creating an inclusive environment with clear goals, timely feedback, and effective collaboration across locations. 
• Support sales pursuits through qualification, delivery approach, work planning, estimates, assumptions, proposals, and client presentations. 
• Contribute to BDO’s Workday delivery methodology, project management tools, accelerators, lessons learned, and practice-building initiatives. 

How Do We Define Success for Your Role?

• You demonstrate BDO's core values through all aspect of your work: Integrity, Respect and Collaboration. 
• You understand your client’s industry, challenges, and opportunities; client describe you as positive, professional, and delivering high-quality work. 
• You identify, recommend, and are focused on effective service delivery to your clients. 
• You share in an inclusive and engaging work environment that develops, retains and attracts talent. 
• You actively participate in the adoption of digital tools and strategies to drive an innovative workplace. 
• You grow your expertise through learning and professional development.  

Your experience and education

• 7+ years of experience managing enterprise technology transformations. Workday experience preferred, or candidate must have experience with at least one comparable HCM solution such as Dayforce, SAP, Oracle, UKG, ADP. 
• Demonstrated experience leading Workday HCM implementations or comparable cloud HCM programs across multiple functional and technical workstreams. 
• Comprehensive project management experience including the management of budget, risks, resources, scope, issues, changes and quality.  
• Excellent written and verbal communication, facilitation, negotiation, and executive presentation skills. 
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Human Resources, Information Systems, Technology, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. 
• Project Management Professional (PMP), PRINCE2, or comparable project management credential is preferred. 
• Active Workday Project Management certification is preferred, or willingness and ability to obtain the required certification within an agreed timeframe. 
• Consulting experience within a professional services organization is considered an asset. 
• Experience with Microsoft Project or comparable project management planning software.
• Project Management Professional designation preferred but not required. 
• Coaching and/or mentoring experience. 
• Exceptional presentation skills for internal/external purposes. 

The expected range of compensation for this role is $115,000-$165,000 annually.

Why BDO?

Our people-first approach to talent has earned us a spot among Canada’s Top 100 Employers for 2026. This recognition is a milestone we’re thrilled to add to our collection of awards for both experienced and student talent experiences. 

At BDO, our people experience is guided by three core pillars—Do work with genuine care, Do what matters with purpose, and Do what’s next - shaping how we support our people, serve our clients, and grow together.

Our firm is committed to providing an environment where you can be successful in the following ways:

• We enable you to engage with how we change and evolve, being a key contributor to the success and growth of BDO in Canada.
• We help you become a better professional within our services, industries, and markets with extensive opportunities for learning and development.
• We support your achievement of personal goals outside of the office and making an impact on your community.
• We foster a collaborative, inclusive environment where your ideas are valued, and you can do your best work with genuine care and purpose
• We encourage innovation and forward thinking, empowering you to embrace what’s next and help shape the future of our firm

Giving back adds up: Where company meets community. BDO is actively involved in our communities by supporting local charity initiatives. We support staff with local and national events where you will be given the opportunity to contribute to your community.

Total rewards that matter: We pay for performance with competitive total cash compensation that recognizes and rewards your contribution. We provide comprehensive benefits from day one, and a flexible personal time off policy.  We’re committed to supporting your overall wellbeing and provide reimbursement for wellness initiatives that fit your lifestyle.

Everyone counts:  We are committed to creating a workplace where employees can participate fully, contribute meaningfully and succeed without barriers. We are dedicated to fostering a workplace defined by respect, fairness, and a true sense of belonging for everyone.  We recognize and celebrate the unique experiences, identities, and perspectives that each of us bring – and that these experiences strengthen how we work together.  Our commitment extends to ensuring that our application process is both inclusive and accessible.  If you require accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us.

Flexibility: All BDO personnel are expected to spend some of their time working in the office, at the client site, and virtually unless accommodations or alternative work arrangements are in place.

Our model is a blended approach designed to support the flexible needs of our people, the firm and our clients. It’s about creating work experiences that meet everyone’s needs and providing flexibility to adjust when, where and how we work to meet the expectations of our role.

Code of Conduct: Our Code of Conduct sets clear standards for how we conduct business. It reflects our shared values and commitments and includes guiding principles to help us make ethical decisions and maintain trust with each other, our clients, and the public.

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