Workday Financials Project Manager (Workday)

Location: United States; available locations include Chicago and the other listed US offices.

Annual salary range for Illinois: $87,400 to $230,000. Ranges vary by listed US state.

Company

hirify.global is a global professional services company helping organizations transform their digital core, optimize operations, accelerate growth, and improve services. Its Workday practice delivers strategy, implementation, optimization, and application managed services across finance, HR, planning, payroll, and related enterprise processes.

What you will do

• Lead Workday implementation, deployment, optimization, or application managed-services programs from mobilization through stabilization and transition.
• Own integrated delivery plans covering scope, schedule, milestones, dependencies, resources, budget, deliverables, and acceptance criteria.
• Establish governance, reporting, decision forums, escalation paths, documentation standards, and active management of risks, issues, actions, assumptions, and dependencies.
• Coordinate functional, technical, integration, data, security, reporting, testing, change, training, cutover, and deployment workstreams.
• Manage client alignment, executive steering committees, project financials, staffing, utilization, forecasting, commercial tracking, and change control.
• Lead readiness, testing, release, cutover, go-live, stabilization, team development, lessons learned, and contributions to proposals and sales pursuits.

Requirements

• At least 5 years leading enterprise technology or business transformation initiatives with responsibility for integrated project delivery.
• At least 3 years managing Workday implementation, deployment, optimization, or support engagements.
• At least 3 years leading Workday deployment through planning, design, configuration, testing, cutover, go-live, and stabilization.
• Experience managing cross-functional teams across functional, technical, integration, data, security, reporting, testing, and change disciplines.
• Experience managing scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, quality, and change control.
• Experience with project financials, forecasting, staffing, and commercial management in a consulting or client-services environment.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent with at least 12 years of work experience; an associate degree requires at least 6 years of work experience.
• Applicants for US employment must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require visa sponsorship.

Nice to have

• Executive sponsor communication, decision-oriented reporting, and experience leading large, multi-workstream, multi-country, or global Workday programs.
• Knowledge of Workday methods and lifecycle activities, including tenant strategy, testing cycles, data conversion, integrations, cutover, and production readiness.
• Experience with Workday Human Capital Management, Financial Management, Payroll, Adaptive Planning, or cross-platform transformation.
• Active Workday certification or relevant Workday delivery training; PMP, PgMP, SAFe, Scrum, or equivalent credentials.
• Experience recovering challenged programs, leading complex cutovers, providing external client-facing consulting, supporting sales pursuits, or leading distributed, offshore, global, and third-party teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage.
• Includes a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off.
• Work emphasizes inclusion, collaboration, accountability, sustainable ways of working, and professional development.