Workday Test & PMO Lead (12 month FTC)

London, England, United Kingdom

12/12/2024

Ideas | People | Trust

We’re BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions entrepreneurial organisations need to navigate today’s changing world.

We work with the companies that are Britain’s economic engine – ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high‑growth businesses that fuel the economy - and directly advise the owners and management teams that lead them.

We’ll broaden your horizons

Working with every department at BDO, our Finance team helps us meet relevant legal requirements that ensure our firm operates effectively in a tightly-regulated field. They implement strategies that help us innovate – like combining new technology with traditional financial processes to make us even more digital. As part of this friendly team, you’ll enjoy flexible hours and have opportunities to take responsibility for the delivery of quality work. With your colleagues behind you, you’ll embrace change, new ideas and have an impact on the future of our firm.

We’ll help you succeed

Leading organisations trust us because of the quality of our advice. That quality grows from a thorough understanding of their business, and that understanding comes from working closely with them and building long-lasting relationships.

You’ll be someone who is both comfortable working proactively and managing your own tasks, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with senior managers, directors, and BDO’s partners to help businesses effectively. You’ll be encouraged to identify and draw attention to opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to organisations we work with.

BDO require the engagement of an experienced test manager to work within our Workday PMO to oversee and test data management and integrations within Workday and as part of our broader ERP landscape. The role will be a 1 year fixed term contract to stand up the testing function within the Workday team and train / transition to more junior team members during the engagement.

In this role you will support the Workday team with testing and PMO activities relating to changes within Workday as well as coordinating activities across the other product teams connected within the wider ERP ecosystem. You will also manage the coordination of the testing in preparation for the Workday update cycles (twice a year) and implement a robust and ongoing process consistently across the Workday platform.

You’ll also:

• Integration Strategy and Scope formulation – Approach, effort and timeline estimates and calculations and additional resource requirements
• Test planning – work with product managers and test function to plan resource requirements and activities, scenario building, integration requirements, script creation and ensure logical order for traceability and repeatability
• Test management execution - management of test resource and across platform activities, management of test data, execution of test scripts, monitoring and recording of results, support implementation of standard configuration management process and support with maintaining the tenant management plan
• Defect management - Implement standard documented processes for effective defect reporting , triage, assignments and re-allocations for re-testing
• Reporting - ensure consistent project level to project team as required and ensure consistent test progress reporting
• Test closure - ensure closure reports are completed and approved, plan any re-work required post project and ensure regression pack available
• Process documentation & Training - proactively create and maintain procedure documentation and train members of the product teams on new procedures
• Product Roadmap Coordination - support workday product teams in coordinating and managing product roadmaps and facilitate the move to a more regular cycle of continuous improvement
• Project Coordination - assist in the development and maintenance of project plans, coordinate project activities and ensure they are completed on time and track project milestones and deliverables
  
  

You’ll be someone with:

• AzureDevOps set up and use (nee VSTS, VSO, TFS) (or similar, ie Jira)
• WorkDay experience (if not, then proven experience of working on a large ERP implementation such as SAP / Oracle)
• Experience with testing system integrations and applying relevant test methodologies and processes
• Knowledge of Professional Services processes (client / project management, time recording etc) an advantage
  
  

You’ll be able to be yourself; we’ll recognise and value you for who you are and celebrate and reward your contributions to the business. We’re committed to agile working, and we offer every colleague the opportunity to work in ways that suit you, your teams, and the task at hand.

At BDO, we’ll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, and we have programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development.

We’re in it together

Mutual support and respect is one of BDO’s core values and we’re proud of our distinctive, people-centred culture. From informal success conversations to formal mentoring and coaching, we’ll support you at every stage in your career, whatever your personal and professional needs.

Our agile working framework helps us stay connected, bringing teams together where and when it counts so they can share ideas and help one another. At BDO, you’ll always have access to the people and resources you need to do your best work.

We know that collaboration is the key to creating value for the companies we work with and satisfying experiences for our colleagues, so we’ve invested in state-of-the-art collaboration spaces in our offices. BDO’s people represent a wealth of knowledge and expertise, and we’ll encourage you to build your network, work alongside others, and share your skills and experiences. With a range of multidisciplinary events and dedicated resources, you’ll never stop learning at BDO.

We’re looking forward to the future

At BDO, we help entrepreneurial businesses to succeed, fuelling the UK economy.

Our success is powered by our people, which is why we’re always finding new ways to invest in you. Across the UK thousands of unique minds continue to come together to help companies we work with to achieve their ambitions

We’ve got a clear purpose, and we’re confident in our future, because we’re adapting and evolving to build on our strengths, ensuring we continue to find the right combination of global reach, integrity and expertise. We shape the future together with openness and clarity, because we believe in empowering people to think creatively about how we can do things better.