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Emma Steen

Emma Steen

New York,New York

Summary

Profile

Emma has been Workday HCM certified since 2014 and has worked exclusively in the Workday ecosystem since then, gaining extensive experience across multiple functional areas and eventually progressing into a Program Leadership role.

Emma has been the Workday Functional Lead on several Large Enterprise HCM Deployments and her most recent role was as the Project Manager of a full suite Workday implementation for a Healthcare customer implementing HCM, Finance, SCM, Payroll, Adaptive and Workforce planning.

Emma has worked with Workday clients based in Europe, ANZ, Africa and now in the US.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Workday Manager

Accenture
07.2022 - Current

Project Roles

Engagement Manager, Healthcare Client

For the last two years Emma has been performing the role of Engagement/Project Manager for a full platform Workday Implementation for a large hospital network based in the North East. This role involved managing the day to day delivery and leadership responsibilities of a team of 40-50 consultants as well as directing and leading customer resources.

Key responsibilities included;

  • Managing forecasting, budgeting and invoicing
  • Managing risks issues and escalations
  • Building and delivering an integrated project plan for the end to end implementation
  • Performance management
  • Developing and delivering report outs to internal as well as external stakeholders
  • Collaborating with Workday as a vendor
  • Developing and executing Testing and Deployment strategies and plans
  • Ensuring the overall successful delivery of the full platform solution.

Manager

Accenture, Australia
05.2020 - 07.2022

Project Roles

Engagement Manager and Functional Lead , Public Sector Client

Emma acted as Workday Engagement Manager and Functional Lead for one of the first Government customers of Workday HCM in New Zealand. Her responsibilities include over all project management, including producing and maintaining planning and strategy documentation and deliverables and managing the Workday Scorecard and Delivery Assurance Tollgates. She has also been responsible for the overall HCM Functional solutioning and design as well as the people management of a team of 10-12 consultants.

Optimization Manager , Insurance Client

Emma led a initiative to review all Workday Recruiting functionality being utilized by a long standing Global Workday customer and form a proposal on opportunities for enhancement and increased return on investment. The output of this work was an extended piece of implementation and enhancement work for Accenture from this client.

Workday Senior Consultant

Deloitte Australia
01.2019 - 04.2020

Project Roles

Functional HCM & High Education Lead , Higher Education Client

Emma led the HCM implementation for one of the first adopters of Workday Higher Education in Australia. She was responsible for supporting the overall functional solutioning of HCM, Talent, Recruiting, Compensation and Onboarding. She was also been responsible for gathering requirements, solutioning and configuring the Higher Education functionality. This included Job Architecture and Capability Framework consultation and solutioning


Functional HCM Lead , Financial Services Client

Emma was responsible for designing a divestiture strategy for the planned separation of one of Australia's largest Bank's primary production environment into a secondary environment which will be owned by a divested element of the business.

Senior Workday Consultant

Deloitte UK
09.2014 - 01.2019

Project Roles

Functional HCM Lead , Energy and Gas Client


Emma lead the Talent & Performance Workstream as well as taking responsibility for the overall functional delivery of Core HR, Compensation, Time Tracking, Absence and Performance & Talent for ~90,000 employees within 78 countries. She had responsibility for defining the functional testing approach, strategy and delivery alongside the client testing team. She was responsible for liaising with the Training, Change and Communications teams as well as helping define both the Cutover and Hypercare strategy for the functional scope.


Other Roles Include

Recruiting Lead - Technology Client

Learning Lead - Online Betting Client

Communication Analyst - Oil and Gas Client

Data Conversion Analyst - Manufacturing Client

Education

LLB - Law With English Literature

University of Glasgow
Glasgow, Scotland
06.2012

Skills

    Project Management, Executive Presentation, Workday Functional Solutioning, Stakeholder Management, Training and Mentoring, Financial Forecasting and Budgeting

Certification

Workday HCM, Recruiting, Learning, Talent & Performance, Project Management, HCM for Higher Education

Timeline

Senior Workday Manager

Accenture
07.2022 - Current

Manager

Accenture, Australia
05.2020 - 07.2022

Workday Senior Consultant

Deloitte Australia
01.2019 - 04.2020

Senior Workday Consultant

Deloitte UK
09.2014 - 01.2019

LLB - Law With English Literature

University of Glasgow
Emma Steen