[Hiring] Manager – Workday Engagement Manager @Alpha Financial Markets Consulting

Role Description

Own engagement governance and project management across Workday implementations, coordinating methodology, timelines, scope, budget, resources, risks, and cross-workstream delivery. The Engagement Manager serves as the primary coordination point between client project leadership and the implementation team.

What You’ll Do

• Project Governance: Drive the project lifecycle in alignment with Workday implementation methodology, maintaining integrated plans, milestones, RAID logs, decision logs, status reporting, and governance routines.
• Scope, Budget & Schedule: Manage project scope, delivery timelines, budget tracking, resource plans, dependencies, and change control. Escalate issues and variances with clear options and recommended actions.
• Client Stakeholder Management: Develop strong relationships with client project managers, sponsors, and workstream leads and serve as the primary organizational point of contact for day-to-day delivery coordination.
• Workday Coordination: Coordinate required communications, checkpoints, and quality assurance activities with Workday teams, including Delivery Assurance where applicable.
• Cross-Workstream Leadership: Facilitate coordination across functional, technical, data, testing, change, and client teams to maintain alignment and resolve dependencies.
• Risk & Issue Management: Proactively identify delivery risks and issues, establish mitigation plans, drive ownership, and ensure timely escalation and resolution.
• Testing, Cutover & Readiness Governance: Coordinate overall testing, UAT, cutover, deployment, and stabilization plans across workstreams and ensure readiness criteria are clearly defined and tracked.
• Executive Communication: Prepare concise, decision-oriented status reporting and facilitate steering committee and governance discussions with senior stakeholders.
• Methodology & Continuous Improvement: Promote disciplined use of delivery methods, templates, and governance standards and contribute lessons learned and improvements to reusable engagement management assets.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience managing enterprise software deployments, preferably Workday Financials, HCM, or similarly complex cloud transformation programs.
• Strong PMO, project planning, scope control, budget management, risk management, and cross-team coordination skills.
• Demonstrated ability to manage client stakeholders and communicate effectively with senior project and business leaders.
• Experience coordinating multiple functional and technical workstreams through testing, cutover, and go-live.
• Workday Certifications.
• Workday Engagement Manager (EM) certification is strongly preferred / required where applicable to assigned engagements.
• Large Enterprise (LE) Engagement Manager certification is a plus.
• PMP or other recognized project management credential is valued.

Location & Travel

This position is US-based and primarily remote. Occasional travel to client sites and Alpha offices may be required based on project needs, key implementation milestones, and team collaboration.

Benefits

• Learning and development: Vast opportunities to self-development, unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning.
• Flexible working: Work-life balance with flexible schedule.
• Community events: We offer a range of social events and meetups.
• 25 days’ holiday in addition to public holidays.
• Supplemented medical, dental and vision coverage.
• 401(k) with employer match.
• Wellness initiatives to promote healthy working, including an allowance for remote working technology.
• Access to discounted travel, tickets, events, and more through our benefit partner.
• There are a wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to - skill sets, experience and training, and licensure and certifications. A reasonable estimate of the salary range is $130,000 – $160,000 USD, subject to change based on salary benchmarking. In addition to this salary, candidates will be eligible for a variable bonus.