Consulting Workday Complex Project Manager Professional

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success.

You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

Your role and responsibilities

• Lead multi-year Workday HCM transformation programs
• Establish executive governance, roadmap, and funding strategy
• Drive alignment between HR, IT, Payroll, Finance, and Legal

Delivery & Execution

• Lead cross-functional work streams including:
  • Core HCM
  • Payroll (US and Global)
  • Benefits
  • Time Tracking
  • Recruiting & Talent
  • Learning
  • Compensation & Performance
  • Reporting & People Analytics
• Manage systems integrators, internal teams, and payroll vendors
• Own data migration, integrations, and testing strategy

HR Transformation

• Modernize HR operating model and service delivery
• Enable global process standardization and automation
• Improve employee and manager self-service experience

Finance Transformation

• Partner with Finance leadership to modernize:
  • Chart of Accounts
  • Financial close processes
  • Controls and compliance
  • Reporting and analytics

Compliance & Risk

• Own payroll controls, audits, and validation
• Ensure data privacy and security controls

Change & Adoption

• Lead change management, communications, and training strategy
• Drive adoption across all employee populations

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• 10+ years of HR systems or ERP program leadership
• Workday HCM or FIN Certification
• 5+ years leading large-scale Workday HCM or FINS implementations
• Deep expertise in:
  • Core HCM
  • Payroll (US and/or Global)
  • Benefits
  • Time Tracking
  • Talent modules

Or

• Procure-to-Pay
• Order-to-Cash
• Asset Management
• Expenses
• Experience delivering multi-country HCM/payroll or Finance programs
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills

PMP

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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