Director, Portfolio and Delivery Leadership Finance Transformation Office

Director, Portfolio and Delivery Leadership

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 portfolioensuring 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 Director, Portfolio and Delivery Leadership to establish and lead this critical function within the Finance Transformation Office. This leader will own the end-to-end Finance Transformation portfoliodriving 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 include :

• 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.
• 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.
• Develop portfolio management frameworks, including intake, prioritization, stage gating, and benefit realization tracking.
• Drive the creation of executive dashboards and reporting that enable data-driven decision-making by Finance and Transformation leadership.
• Partner with Finance Organizations, Change Management, and Process Ownership teams to measure realized value and adoption of transformation outcomes.
• Ensure transformation investments are delivering on intended ROI, productivity, and experience improvements.
• Serve as a single point of accountability for the end-to-end Finance Transformation portfolio, ensuring transparency and alignment across program sponsors, process owners, and delivery teams.
• Facilitate effective communication and alignment with senior Finance leadership, the Transformation Office, and enterprise PMO counterparts.
• Champion collaboration across Finance, Business Technology, HR, and Change teams to ensure cohesive execution.
• Build and mentor a high-performing team of portfolio and delivery leaders with a focus on delivery excellence, business acumen, and stakeholder engagement.
• Develop frameworks, tools, and playbooks to institutionalize portfolio management and delivery leadership capabilities across Finance Transformation.
• Foster a culture of accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement.

Required qualifications include :

Other qualifications include :

Our approach to flexible work combines the best of both in-person and remote time. Spend at least half (50%) of your time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners. This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together.

Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans. Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.