Senior Project Manager - Workday Adaptive Planning - Hybrid
Posted 1 day ago by Lorien
Negotiable
Outside
Hybrid
City of London
Summary: The Senior Project Manager will oversee the European rollout of Workday Adaptive Planning for a global insurance broking company on a hybrid contract basis. This high-profile role involves leading the implementation of core planning, budgeting, and forecasting capabilities in alignment with global finance strategies and regulatory requirements. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in finance system implementations within the Financial Services sector, particularly in insurance. Strong stakeholder management and governance skills are essential for success in this position.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the end-to-end delivery of the Workday Adaptive Planning rollout across multiple countries and business units.
- Manage large-scale, multi-country finance system implementations within the Financial Services sector.
- Ensure alignment with global finance strategy, regulatory requirements, and local market needs.
- Oversee stakeholder management, including C-suite and senior finance leadership.
- Manage system integrators and third-party vendors.
- Implement strong governance, RAID management, and delivery assurance practices.
Key Skills:
- Demonstrated success as a Senior Project Manager in finance system implementations.
- Hands-on delivery experience with Workday Adaptive Planning.
- Strong understanding of finance planning processes (budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning).
- Experience in complex, regulated environments (insurance, financial services).
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills.
- Strong governance and delivery assurance capability.
- Experience managing system integrators and third-party vendors.
- Formal project management qualification (PRINCE2, PMP, MSP, or equivalent).
- Agile/hybrid delivery experience desirable.
- Finance or accounting background advantageous but not essential.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: City of London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Senior Project Manager - Workday Adaptive Planning - Hybrid - Outside IR35
Our client, a global Insurance broking company, are currently looking to hire a Senior Project Manager with Workday Adaptive Planning experience to join the team on a hybrid working contract basis.
The client are seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead the European rollout of Workday Adaptive Planning across multiple countries within a complex insurance broker group. This is a high-profile transformation role responsible for delivering a core planning, budgeting, and forecasting capability aligned to global finance strategy, regulatory requirements, and local market needs.
In this role you will lead the end-to-end delivery of the Workday Adaptive Planning rollout across multiple countries and business units.
Skills & Experience Required
- Demonstrated success as a Senior Project Manager leading large-scale, multi-country finance system implementations within the Financial Services sector, ideally with experience in an insurance broking environment.
- Hands-on delivery experience with Workday Adaptive Planning (global rollout experience strongly preferred)
- Strong understanding of finance planning processes (budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning)
- Experience operating within complex, regulated environments (insurance, financial services, or similar)
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills, including C-suite and senior finance leadership
- Strong governance, RAID management, and delivery assurance capability
- Experience managing system integrators and third-party vendors
Desirable
- Experience delivering alongside Workday Financials (eg R2R, P2P, Prism, Accounting Centre)
- Change management and business adoption experience
Qualifications
- Formal project management qualification (PRINCE2, PMP, MSP, or equivalent)
- Agile/hybrid delivery experience desirable
- Finance or accounting background advantageous but not essential
Please apply!
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
