Case Study: Man Group achieves rapid back-office digitization and accurate, secure financial planning with Workday Adaptive Planning

Man Group Accelerates Strategy to Digitise and Transform Back Office with Workday

Man Group, a London‑headquartered global investment firm with around 1,436 employees, faced aging, disconnected back‑office finance and HR systems that relied heavily on spreadsheets and manual workarounds. Functionality updates were costly and slow to test, financial planning was fragmented and error‑prone, and employees spent significant time reconciling data instead of doing strategic work.

The firm implemented Workday’s cloud‑native suite—Financial Management, Financial Planning and HCM—to unify data and standardize global processes. The integrated system replaced manual interactions with automated workflows, enabled secure self‑service reporting and mobile access, and supported a rapid organizational restructure within three months of go‑live. As a result, Man Group improved reporting accuracy and timeliness, increased user engagement, and reduced operational overhead.

Man Group

Thomas Rees

Workday Financials Product Owner