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Project Manager – Workday Implementation / HR Transformation

Location: GTA (Hybrid – TBD)

Duration: July 2026 – July 2027

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead a large-scale Workday implementation and HR transformation program . The successful candidate will have demonstrated experience managing complex, enterprise-level Workday initiatives from planning through implementation, with accountability for project governance, stakeholders, implementation partners, budget, schedule, risks, and dependencies.

The ideal candidate has led Workday implementations within large, complex and unionized organizations and brings experience supporting M&A;, parent company, and subsidiary integrations .

Key Responsibilities

- Lead the end-to-end Workday implementation , from planning and mobilization through deployment and stabilization.
- Manage multiple project workstreams and dependencies across the broader HR transformation.
- Establish and maintain project governance, reporting, risk management, issue management, and escalation processes .
- Partner with executive sponsors, business leaders, HR, Payroll, IT, and other key stakeholders.
- Lead and facilitate steering committee and executive-level communications .
- Manage project budget, schedule, resources, scope, risks, and dependencies .
- Manage Workday implementation partners, system integrators, vendors, and other third parties.
- Coordinate data migration, integrations, testing,



Payroll, change management, and deployment activities across project teams.
- Support integration requirements associated with M&A; activity, parent companies, subsidiaries, and multiple business entities .
- Ensure project deliverables, milestones, and implementation partner commitments are achieved.

Required Experience

- Significant experience leading large-scale Workday implementation or HR transformation projects .
- Demonstrated end-to-end Workday project/program management experience.
- Experience managing complex programs involving multiple workstreams and cross-functional teams .
- Strong experience with project governance, executive stakeholders, steering committees, budgets, risks, and implementation partners .
- Experience managing Workday-related data migration, integration, testing, and deployment workstreams at the project/program level.
- Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
- Experience delivering HR technology initiatives within complex and/or unionized environments .
- Experience supporting M&A;, parent company, subsidiary, or multi-entity integrations .

Nice to Have

- SAP HCM / SAP ECC experience,



particularly within organizations transitioning from an SAP-based HR ecosystem to Workday.
- Understanding of SAP HR/payroll processes, integrations, and legacy data considerations.
- ADP Payroll experience.
- Experience with SAP SuccessFactors-to-Workday transformation or migration initiatives.
- Exposure to Workday data migration technologies and approaches, including EIBs, Workday Studio, APIs, SQL, ETL, data conversion, reconciliation, and validation .

Top Skills

1. End-to-end Workday implementation leadership
2. Large-scale HR transformation / program management
3. M&A;, parent company, and subsidiary integration experience
4. Executive stakeholder, governance, and steering committee management
5. Budget, timeline, risk, vendor, and implementation partner management

Solid asset: SAP HCM/ECC and ADP Payroll experience within an SAP-to-Workday transformation environment. Questions for candidates to answer:

1.Describe the largest Workday or HR transformation project she’s led.

Please include scope, team size, workstreams and your specific responsibilities.

2.Were you responsible for the overall project/program, or a specific workstream such as Payroll?

If a workstream, please describe your area of ownership.

3.What experience do you have managing project governance, executive stakeholders, budgets, implementation partners, and steering committees?

4.What experience do you have leading Workday Core HCM activities beyond Payroll, such as organizational design, business processes, security, integrations, data migration, testing, and change management?

📌 Project Manager (Greater Toronto Area)
🏢 Amyantek
📍 Greater Toronto Area