Overview
Remote
Full Time
Skills
Performance Management
Preventive Maintenance
Risk Management
RAID
Communication Planning
Project Implementation
Project Planning
Reporting
Security QA
Decision-making
Clarity
Professional Services
Budget
Resource Allocation
Test Strategy
System Integration Testing
Acceptance Testing
Payroll
Data Validation
Stakeholder Engagement
Design Review
Change Management
Finance
Project Management
SaaS
HR Management
Procurement
PSA
Recruiting
Billing
Workday
Testing
Data Conversion
Leadership
Communication
Problem Solving
Conflict Resolution
Management
Managed Services
Collaboration
Partnership
Value Engineering
Effective Communication
Law
Job Details
Workday Project Manager- HCM &FINS (Client-Side)
Location: Remote
Duration: 12m+
Summary
The Workday Project Manager will serve as the client-side lead for a multi-phase Workday implementation across HCM, Financials, and Professional Services Automation (PSA). This role ensures the customer's interests are represented throughout the deployment, working closely with the selected implementation partner, internal stakeholders, and functional leads. The PM is responsible for program governance, risk management, timeline oversight, coordination across workstreams, and ensuring decisions are made with full awareness of downstream impacts across HCM, FINS, and PSA.
Key Responsibilities
Program Leadership & Governance
Project Execution
Risk, Issue, and Change Management
Testing & Cutover
Stakeholder Engagement
Required Experience & Qualifications
Welcome to ConsultNet and the family of companies, Tekne, SaltClick, TechBridge, and OmniMedia. As a premier national provider of technology talent and solutions, our expertise spans across project services, contract-to-hire, direct placement, and managed services both onshore and nearshore.
Celebrating more than 25 years of partnership with a diverse client base, we've crafted rewarding opportunities for our consultants, fostering high-performing teams that deliver impactful results.
Over the last few years thousands of consultants have found their calling with us in roles that have made a meaningful impact on their lives, enhanced their career, challenged them, and propelled them towards achieving their personal and professional goals. At the ConsultNet family of companies, we believe effective communication is crucial in aligning the right job with your unique skills and professional aspirations. To us, it's all about the personal approach we take and the values we uphold.
Our comprehensive service offerings cover a wide range of technology positions across key markets nationwide. Client more at .
We champion equality and inclusivity, proudly supporting an Equal Opportunity Employer policy. We welcome applicants regardless of Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other status protected by law.
Location: Remote
Duration: 12m+
Summary
The Workday Project Manager will serve as the client-side lead for a multi-phase Workday implementation across HCM, Financials, and Professional Services Automation (PSA). This role ensures the customer's interests are represented throughout the deployment, working closely with the selected implementation partner, internal stakeholders, and functional leads. The PM is responsible for program governance, risk management, timeline oversight, coordination across workstreams, and ensuring decisions are made with full awareness of downstream impacts across HCM, FINS, and PSA.
Key Responsibilities
Program Leadership & Governance
- Lead overall planning, coordination, and execution of the Workday HCM, Financials, and PSA implementation from a client-side perspective.
- Serve as the primary point of contact between the customer and the SI/implementation partner.
- Establish and manage governance frameworks, steering committees, RAID logs, and communication plans.
- Drive weekly status meetings, executive updates, and cross-functional alignment sessions.
Project Execution
- Partner with functional and technical leads (internal + SI) to ensure deliverables stay on track and meet requirements.
- Manage the integrated project plan, dependencies, milestones, and critical path across all Workday modules.
- Monitor configuration, data conversion, integrations, reporting, security, testing, and change management activities.
- Support decision-making by providing clarity on scope, downstream impacts, and prioritization across HCM, FINS, and PSA.
Risk, Issue, and Change Management
- Proactively identify risks, issues, and scope changes; develop mitigation plans and escalation paths.
- Ensure alignment across internal Finance, HR, IT, and PSA/Professional Services teams.
- Track and manage budget, resource allocation, and vendor performance.
Testing & Cutover
- Oversee test strategy and execution (unit, SIT, UAT, parallel payroll, end-to-end).
- Coordinate cutover planning, go-live readiness, deployment activities, and hypercare support.
- Ensure the customer has the right resources for data validation, configuration review, testing, and post-go-live adoption.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Facilitate workshops, requirement sessions, and design reviews to ensure business needs are understood and represented.
- Maintain clear, consistent communication with executives, SMEs, and the implementation partner.
- Support change management planning and end-user readiness in partnership with internal HR/Finance/IT teams.
Required Experience & Qualifications
- 5-10+ years of project management experience, preferably in enterprise SaaS deployments.
- Proven experience managing Workday implementations, ideally including two or more of the following:
- HCM (Core, Talent, Comp, Time & Absence, Benefits)
- Financials (Core Financials, Procurement, Projects & Customers)
- PSA (Project Staffing, Revenue, Time Tracking, Billing)
- Strong understanding of Workday methodology, project phases, testing cycles, data conversion, integrations, and security.
- Ability to drive alignment across cross-functional teams and leadership stakeholders.
- Experience working alongside system integrators (Kainos, Client, Client, PwC, etc.).
- Excellent communication, executive presence, and structured problem-solving skills.
Welcome to ConsultNet and the family of companies, Tekne, SaltClick, TechBridge, and OmniMedia. As a premier national provider of technology talent and solutions, our expertise spans across project services, contract-to-hire, direct placement, and managed services both onshore and nearshore.
Celebrating more than 25 years of partnership with a diverse client base, we've crafted rewarding opportunities for our consultants, fostering high-performing teams that deliver impactful results.
Over the last few years thousands of consultants have found their calling with us in roles that have made a meaningful impact on their lives, enhanced their career, challenged them, and propelled them towards achieving their personal and professional goals. At the ConsultNet family of companies, we believe effective communication is crucial in aligning the right job with your unique skills and professional aspirations. To us, it's all about the personal approach we take and the values we uphold.
Our comprehensive service offerings cover a wide range of technology positions across key markets nationwide. Client more at .
We champion equality and inclusivity, proudly supporting an Equal Opportunity Employer policy. We welcome applicants regardless of Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other status protected by law.
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