Workday PMO & Senior Project Delivery Manager (15 month FTC)

We’re BDO, an accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions entrepreneurial organisations need to navigate today’s changing world. We work with ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high-growth businesses that fuel the economy, directly advising the owners and management teams that lead them.

Working with every department at BDO, our Finance team helps us meet relevant legal requirements that ensure our firm operates effectively in a tightly-regulated field. They implement strategies that help us innovate, combining new technology with traditional financial processes to enhance our digital capabilities.

The purpose of the Workday PMO & Senior Project Delivery Manager role, covering maternity leave, is to lead and manage Workday project activities, ensuring timely completion and adherence to change management processes. This role will coordinate tenant management, release and test management, and maintain the Workday Central Project roadmap. It involves strategic planning, effective communication, and continuous improvement, supporting product teams and facilitating regular cycles of enhancement.

In this role you’ll:

• Develop and maintain project plans
• Coordinate project activities and ensure they are completed on time
• Track project milestones and deliverables
• Manage Workday change requests ensuring changes follow the Workday change management guidance
• Co-ordinate the Workday Change Advisory board meetings, agendas and minutes
• Maintain the Workday Central Project roadmap
• Update ERP reports
• Support Workday product teams in coordinating and managing product roadmaps
• Facilitate the move to a more regular cycle of continuous improvement
• Develop a structured change strategy and communicate effectively with stakeholders to ensure understanding, buy-in, and smooth implementation
• Provide training and support to facilitate adaptation, monitor progress, and gather feedback for ongoing refinement and improvement
• Create and execute a plan to increase business engagement and adoption in Workday using a range of techniques and change management best practices
• Coordinate tenant refresh schedules by communicating and agreeing on timings that accommodate Business-As-Usual activities, ongoing projects, and planned releases, ensuring minimal disruption
• Co-ordinate Regression and new feature testing as part of Workday's twice yearly release
• Coordinate and manage the testing process of Workday Projects, including planning, execution, defect management, reporting, and closure, while ensuring effective documentation

You’ll be someone with initiative, organisation, effective communication, and the ability to challenge assumptions. Knowledge of Professional Services processes, and project management qualifications are required or advantageous. Experience with Workday or large ERP implementations is also beneficial.

We’re committed to agile working, offering every colleague the opportunity to work in ways that suit you, your teams, and the task at hand. At BDO, we’ll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, with programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development.

Mutual support and respect is one of BDO’s core values, and we’re proud of our distinctive, people-centred culture. Our agile working framework helps us stay connected, bringing teams together where and when it counts so they can share ideas and help one another. At BDO, you’ll always have access to the people and resources you need to do your best work.

We know that collaboration is key to creating value for the companies we work with and satisfying experiences for our colleagues, so we’ve invested in state-of-the-art collaboration spaces in our offices. BDO’s people represent a wealth of knowledge and expertise, and we’ll encourage you to build your network, work alongside others, and share your skills and experiences.

At BDO, we help entrepreneurial businesses to succeed, fuelling the UK economy. Our success is powered by our people, which is why we’re always finding new ways to invest in you. We’ve got a clear purpose, and we’re confident in our future, adapting and evolving to build on our strengths, ensuring we continue to find the right combination of global reach, integrity, and expertise.