Workday Assistant Manager .

Job description

About the team

Our Advisory capability brings our Consulting and Deal Advisory businesses together as one team, combining our expertise and talent. We solve business challenges, helping our clients to realise their growth ambitions, from strategy to transaction and through to transformation.

We support clients across a wide range of challenges within a transformation lifecycle - from setting their strategy, ensuring regulatory compliance, through to transformative implementation.

The Powered HR Workday team delivers large-scale enterprise transformation projects across the full Workday suite, including HCM, Payroll and related modules. We partner with clients to design, implement and optimise core HR and finance operations, ensuring seamless integration and alignment with strategic business goals. Working across the private and public sectors, the team helps organisations integrate advanced capabilities, including AI adoption, into their Workday environments to future-proof their operations.

About the role:

As a Workday Manager, you will act as a functional lead for complex Workday implementations and optimisations, taking ownership from design through to Go-Live. You will lead workstreams, manage senior client relationships and support delivery teams through configuration, testing and cutover. You will also mentor junior consultants, helping them build technical capability and confidence, while contributing to bids, proposals and requests for proposal (RFPs).

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead Workday workstreams and functional delivery from design and configuration through testing, cutover and Go-Live.
• Manage cross-functional stakeholder relationships, project scope, delivery risks and dependencies to support successful outcomes.
• Build trusted relationships with senior clients, align stakeholders around the project vision and guide decision-making throughout delivery.
• Deliver Workday implementations and optimisations that meet agreed business outcomes and support a positive client experience.
• Provide structured, hands-on coaching to junior team members, building their technical proficiency and professional confidence.
• Lead and coordinate teams shaping competitive bids, proposals and RFP responses from initial development through to submission.

Skills, knowledge and experience you’ll need:

• Strong functional expertise across core Workday modules, such as HCM and Payroll, with evidence of leading complex implementations.
• Workday certification relevant to the role.
• Confident stakeholder management and advisory capability, including experience steering executive conversations, challenging assumptions and guiding organisations through complex change.
• Experience managing project workstreams, cross-functional teams, scope, risks and dependencies through to Go-Live.
• Commercial experience leading bids, shaping proposals and translating client challenges into compelling Workday solutions.
• A collaborative coaching style, with the ability to transfer functional knowledge, develop emerging talent and strengthen team performance in demanding delivery environments.
• A resilient, structured approach to problem-solving, with curiosity about new technologies and the application of AI within Workday environments.