Overview
The Interim Workday Financials Change Lead will play a pivotal role in a major Workday transformation programme for a complex organisation, focusing on facilitating the successful adoption of Workday across HR, Payroll, and business functions. Collaborating with programme leadership, HR stakeholders, and system integrators, the contractor will design and implement change strategies while driving engagement and organizational readiness for the transition to new systems and processes.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute the end-to-end change management strategy for a major Workday implementation.
- Lead stakeholder mapping, impact assessments, and organisational readiness activities.
- Design and deliver communications, engagement, and adoption plans across multiple business functions.
- Conduct change impact assessments and translate findings into actionable interventions.
- Partner closely with HR, Programme Management, Workday functional teams, and senior business stakeholders.
- Establish change networks and champion communities to support adoption.
- Develop and oversee training strategies and user enablement activities.
- Track change adoption metrics and prepare regular reporting for programme governance forums.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading change for Workday Financial implementations within large and complex organisations.
- Deep understanding of organisational change management methodologies.
- Strong experience delivering change across HR, Payroll, Talent, Workforce Management, or Finance functions.
- Demonstrable success driving user adoption and business readiness for enterprise system implementations.
- Experience conducting stakeholder analysis, impact assessments, and change readiness evaluations.
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Ability to influence senior executives and operate effectively within programme environments.
- Previous consultancy experience highly desirable.