Senior Director, Transformation Excellence and Portfolio Management

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About the Team

The Portfolio and Delivery Leadership team sits within the Transformation Excellence group of Workday’s Finance Transformation Office. This newly formed function ensures Finance’s transformation portfolio is strategically aligned, well-governed, and outcome-driven. By bringing together portfolio management, program governance, and delivery leadership, the team drives transparency, accountability, and measurable value across all transformation initiatives. Acting as the connective tissue between strategic priorities, execution teams, and senior leadership, the team ensures that Finance transformation programs deliver against both near-term milestones and long-term business outcomes.

About the Role

Join Workday’s Finance Transformation Office and lead the Portfolio and Delivery Leadership function that drives alignment, transparency, and results across Finance’s global transformation agenda. As the Director, you’ll oversee the full Finance Transformation portfolio—ensuring initiatives are prioritized, governed, and executed with measurable impact. You’ll lead a team of delivery leaders, manage strategic roadmaps and reporting, and champion the realization of business value across critical programs, including the finance function areas of the Hire to Retire portfolio. This is a high-impact leadership role for someone who excels at connecting strategy to execution and driving transformation outcomes at scale.

We are seeking a Senior Director, Transformation Excellence and Portfolio Management to establish and lead this critical function within the Finance Transformation Office. This leader will own the end-to-end Finance Transformation portfolio—driving alignment with strategy, ensuring disciplined delivery, and managing transparency of outcomes. The role will oversee portfolio governance, initiative prioritization, roadmap management, and benefits tracking, while also providing direct leadership for the finance portion of the Hire to Retire transformation portfolio. The Director will lead a team of portfolio and delivery leads assigned to key end-to-end process areas and serve as a strategic advisor to senior Finance leaders. They will ensure every transformation initiative is grounded in measurable value, supported by disciplined execution, and connected to Workday’s broader transformation agenda.

Key Responsibilities:

Portfolio Strategy & Alignment

• Define and operationalize the Finance Transformation portfolio governance model to align initiatives with enterprise strategic priorities.

• Manage the end-to-end transformation portfolio, ensuring initiatives are properly scoped, resourced, sequenced, and measured.

• Partner with Finance, Technology, and Transformation Excellence leadership to continuously refine portfolio priorities and optimize investments for maximum impact.

Delivery Leadership & Execution

• Lead a team of portfolio and delivery leads responsible for end-to-end process areas, ensuring consistent program execution standards across Finance Transformation.

• Oversee delivery for the finance portion of the Hire to Retire portfolio, providing leadership and integration across initiatives that impact finance operations, systems, and processes.

• Ensure delivery excellence through standardized governance, milestone tracking, and proactive issue management.

• Build and manage portfolio-level dashboards that provide visibility into program health, dependencies, risks, and realized benefits.

Governance, Reporting & Value Realization