Philippa Lawrence

Philippa Lawrence is the current Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer at Workday. Prior to joining Workday, Ms. Lawrence served as the Vice President, Corporate Controller at KATERRA from December 2017 to June 2019. Before their time at KATERRA, Ms. Lawrence was the Vice President, Corporate Controller at Brocade from April 2016 to December 2017.

Ms. Lawrence began their career in public accounting with BDO Stoy Hayward in 1988, where they worked as an auditor until 1994. Philippa then joined Sun Micro Systems as their Corporate Consolidations Manager in January 2005. In February 2007, Ms. Lawrence moved to Google, where they served as Alphabet Controller (Consolidation/Reporting/Governance) until April 2016.

Phillipa Lawrence attended London Metropolitan University, where they studied law.

Some direct reports include Christopher Silvey - Director, Technical Accounting & SOX, Regina Zhang - Director, Tax Accounting and Compliance, and Patrick Hoynes - Director, Accounting and Reporting. Some of their coworkers include John Wong - VP, Finance, John Bruno - VP, Global Real Estate, the Workplace and Safety, and Kae Jain - VP, Finance. Philippa Lawrence reports to Robynne Sisco, Co-President.