Finance Transformation Manager, 12-month FTC

We are currently partnering with a market-leading speciality Insurer to recruit a Finance Transformation Manager on a 12-month FTC. The successful candidate will lead the Change and Adoption workstream for the Workday Finance Transformation Programme, ensuring the organisation is fully prepared, trained, and equipped to successfully adopt new systems, processes, and ways of working.

Key responsibilities;

• Lead the Change and Adoption workstream for the Workday Finance Transformation Programme, driving organisational readiness and user adoption.
• Develop and deliver the Change Management Plan, Business Readiness Plan, and Adoption Roadmap throughout the programme lifecycle.
• Manage and report change-related risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and assumptions through established governance forums.
• Provide regular status updates and readiness reporting to programme leadership, Steering Committees, and key stakeholders.
• Design and execute stakeholder engagement and communication strategies, including presentations, briefings, newsletters, and awareness sessions.
• Identify, manage, and escalate barriers to adoption, ensuring successful implementation of new processes and ways of working.
• Coordinate change activities across Finance, Technology, Data, Transformation teams, and external delivery partners.
• Partner with Deloitte, Workday, and internal stakeholders to integrate change activities with programme design, testing, deployment, and hypercare phases.
• Define and deliver role-based training strategies, learning pathways, and adoption initiatives for end users and support teams.
• Establish and support Super User and Change Champion networks to drive engagement and embed sustainable change.
• Monitor and report on business readiness, stakeholder engagement, training completion, and adoption metrics to measure programme success.
• Support programme governance and coordination activities, including workshops, Steering Committees, documentation management, action tracking, and reporting.

The ideal candidate should have but not limited to;

• Experience working within the Insurance industry.
• Experience supporting Workday, Oracle Cloud, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics or similar ERP implementations.
• Experience delivering change management and project activities for ERP, Finance Systems or Digital Transformation initiatives.
• Demonstrable experience developing and executing change management plans, stakeholder engagement strategies and business readiness activities.