Senior Workday Project Manager

🕒 May 13

🏢🏡 Chicago – Hybrid

💵 $132.1k - $207k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👷‍♀️ Project Manager

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Armanino

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1001 - 5000 employees

💸 Finance

☁️ SaaS

Finance • Professional Services • SaaS

Armanino is a top 25 accounting and consulting firm in the United States, providing a comprehensive range of services including audit and assurance, tax, advisory, and business consulting services. The firm specializes in facilitating digital transformation, optimizing operations, and navigating business disruptions across various industries. As a certified B Corporation, Armanino is committed to balancing profit and purpose, using its business as a force for good. The firm delivers financial capabilities and solutions to clients globally, offering expertise in areas like finance, human resources, digital marketing, and IT. With a focus on both individual and business needs, Armanino serves industries such as cannabis, education, energy, financial services, healthcare, insurance, technology, and more.

📋 Description

• Lead full-lifecycle Workday implementations, including net-new full-platform deployments and go-lives. • Define and manage project scope, objectives, timelines, success measures, and delivery approach in alignment with SOWs. • Manage project planning, execution, monitoring, and delivery. • Provide guidance on Workday capabilities, implementation best practices, and methodology to clients and internal teams, aligning priorities and outcomes. • Proactively identify, manage, and escalate project risks, issues, and scope changes. • Lead difficult client and internal conversations, holding firm on timelines, scope boundaries, and delivery commitments. • Follow formal escalation paths while exercising senior judgment to resolve issues efficiently. • Serve as a trusted advisor to client stakeholders throughout the engagement. • Lead client-facing meetings and stakeholder discussions with confidence and clarity. • Translate highly technical concepts into actionable, client-appropriate communication. • Build strong, long-term client relationships that support retention and follow-on opportunities. • Own project financial management, including: Billing, Forecasting, Weekly financial reviews, Monitoring budget vs. actuals. • Act as the primary gatekeeper for identifying and addressing margin erosion. • Ensure contracts, change orders, billing, resource planning, and administrative deliverables are accurate and timely. • Collaborate internally to identify and support future business development opportunities. • Drive cross-functional project teams and mentor junior project managers and consultants. • Collaborate effectively across an evolving, growing Workday practice. • Demonstrate flexibility and resilience in navigating ambiguity as processes and standards continue to mature. • Contribute to practice improvement efforts that drive greater delivery predictability and efficiency over time.

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of Workday project management experience. • Hands-on Workday Phase X, Launch/Flex methodology implementation experience across HCM and FINS. • Experience leading net-new, full-platform implementations. • Strongly demonstrated escalation and risk management capability. • Workday certifications: Project Manager Scorecard. • Experience in professional services or consulting environments. • Proven experience with project financial ownership, including billing, forecasting, and margin management. • Excellent communication, facilitation, and client-facing leadership skills. • Flexibility to adapt to shifting priorities and client needs. • Experience leading teams and mentoring junior colleagues. • Ability to collaborate across internal teams and work effectively in a fast-paced, evolving environment. • Motivated self-starter with the ability to ramp quickly in new environments, work independently, and manage multiple projects simultaneously. • Willingness to work in a hybrid model (in-office or client-site up to 50%).

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision • Generous PTO plan and paid sick time • Flexible work arrangements • 401K with Profit Sharing • Wellness program • Generous parental leave • 11 paid holidays