Workday Change Manager

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Workday Change Manager to support a Workday Financials deployment programme on an initial circa 6-month contract.

The successful candidate will have strong experience delivering organisational change within Workday programmes, having supported at least two Workday Financials implementations/deployments.

You will be responsible for driving change adoption across impacted business areas, ensuring stakeholders are engaged, prepared and equipped to work effectively with the new Workday Financials solution.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the change management strategy and delivery for the Workday Financials deployment.
• Assess organisational and business impacts resulting from the implementation.
• Develop and execute change, communications and stakeholder engagement plans.
• Work closely with Workday, programme, business and functional teams to ensure change activity is aligned with the deployment roadmap.
• Identify key stakeholder groups, assess readiness and manage resistance to change.
• Develop and coordinate communications and engagement activities throughout the programme.
• Support the design and delivery of training and user-readiness activities.
• Help ensure business users are adequately prepared for go-live and transition into the new ways of working.
• Monitor adoption, readiness and change risks, escalating issues where appropriate.
• Support post-go-live adoption and embedding of new Workday processes.

Essential Experience

• Proven experience as a Change Manager within Workday transformation programmes.
• Strong experience supporting Workday Financials deployments/implementations.
• Ideally, experience across two Workday Financials projects.
• Demonstrable experience across the full change lifecycle, from impact assessment through to go-live and adoption.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to engage both senior leadership and business users.
• Experience working in complex, multi-stakeholder transformation environments.
• Ability to work independently and take ownership of change deliverables.

Desirable Experience

• Workday Financials training experience, including training needs analysis, training materials, train-the-trainer or end-user training.
• Experience supporting multiple Workday modules or broader Workday transformation programmes.
• Experience working within large-scale Finance transformation programmes.
• Workday certification or formal Workday training would be advantageous.

Contract & Working Pattern

• Initial contract: circa 6 months
• Location: London
• On-site requirement: ideally 1 day per week in London
• Rate: Open to conversation, depending on experience and fit
• Start date: To be discussed