Manager, Workday Consulting at BDO in Toronto, ON

Job description

Putting people first, every day BDO is a firm built on a foundation of positive relationships with our people and our clients. Each day, our professionals provide exceptional service, helping clients with advice and insight they can trust. In turn, we offer an award-winning environment that fosters a people-first culture with a high priority on your personal and professional growth. Your Opportunity As a Manager specializing in Workday project delivery, you will be accountable for leading Workday implementations, estimating implementation hour allocations, optimization, and transformation engagements across the full project lifecycle. You will bring structure to complex programs, align client and delivery teams, and maintain clear governance over scope, schedule, budget, quality, risks, and decisions. The role combines hands-on program leadership, trusted client partnership, team development, and contribution to the growth of BDO’s Workday practice. Key Responsibilities Lead end-to-end delivery of Workday implementation, enhancement, and transformation engagements from mobilization and planning through go-live, stabilization, and transition to support. Develop and maintain integrated project plans, delivery schedules, budgets, resource plans, governance calendars, and milestone reporting across functional and technical workstreams. Establish effective project governance, including decision forums, status reporting, escalation paths, change control, and clear accountability for client and delivery team members. Manage scope, assumptions, dependencies, risks, issues, actions, and decisions, driving timely resolution and transparent escalation when required. Partner with client sponsors, HR and technology leaders, workstream leads, and third parties to confirm priorities, resolve cross-functional impacts, and maintain alignment on outcomes. Lead executive and steering committee communications that clearly present progress, decisions required, risks, financial status, and recovery actions. Build trusted client relationships by setting clear expectations, communicating directly, and maintaining a strong focus on business outcomes and user adoption. Lead, coach, and support multidisciplinary teams, creating an inclusive environment with clear goals, timely feedback, and effective collaboration across locations. Support sales pursuits through qualification, delivery approach, work planning, estimates, assumptions, proposals, and client presentations. Contribute to BDO’s Workday delivery methodology, project management tools, accelerators, lessons learned, and practice-building initiatives. How Do We Define Success for Your Role? You demonstrate BDO's core values through all aspect of your work: Integrity, Respect and Collaboration You understand your client’s industry, challenges, and opportunities; client describe you as positive, professional, and delivering high-quality work You identify, recommend, and are focused on effective service delivery to your clients You share in an inclusive and engaging work environment that develops, retains and attracts talent You actively participate in the adoption of digital tools and strategies to drive an innovative workplace You grow your expertise through learning and professional development Your experience and education 7+ years of experience managing enterprise technology transformations. Workday experience preferred, or candidate must have experience with at least one comparable HCM solution such as Dayforce, SAP, Oracle, UKG, ADP. Demonstrated experience leading Workday HCM implementations or comparable cloud HCM programs across multiple functional and technical workstreams. Comprehensive project management experience including the management of budget, risks, resources, scope, issues, changes and quality Excellent written and verbal communication, facilitation, negotiation, and executive presentation skills. Bachelor’s degree in Business, Human Resources, Information Systems, Technology,