Project Manager - Workday Testing

MatchPoint Solutions is a fast-growing, young, energetic global IT-Engineering services company with clients across the US. We provide technology solutions to various clients like Uber, Robinhood, Netflix, Airbnb, Google, Sephora and more! More recently, we have expanded to working internationally in Canada, China, Ireland, UK, Brazil and India. Through our culture of innovation, we inspire, build, and deliver business results, from idea to outcome. We keep our clients on the cutting edge of the latest technologies and provide solutions by using industry specific best practices and expertise.

We are excited to be continuously expanding our team. If you are interested in this position, please send over your updated resume. We look forward to hearing from you!

This role will focus on the Project Management function in support of our High Radius and Workday implementation project for North America.

The primary focus of the role will be to provide project management support of various Workday testing efforts. The testing efforts will be related to Projects, Projects Billing, Customer Accounts, AR and various integrations.

The role involves planning, mobilizing, directing and monitoring all aspects related to testing. Typical responsibilities will include the creation and adherence to plans/schedules, management of task execution, issues, risks, and status reporting.

The role will work with the business, analysts, technical staff and vendors.

The role will partner with other project managers and vendors to maintain and execute against a testing methodology that will use a set of tools and templates to support the project. Examples would include Project Plans, Issues/Risk logs, Change Control Processes, Status Reports, etc.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

1. Help drive the work in collaboration with various stakeholders. Proactively connecting the dots and raising questions to obtain clear direction and decision.
2. Define, implement and maintain project governance artifacts (e.g. plans, communications, budgets, metrics, status, decision making framework, etc.)
3. Partner closely with stakeholders, vendors and various workstreams to inform program level documents (e.g. project plans, Issues, status, etc.).
4. Develop and maintain strong and productive relationships with all members of the team
5. Establish project communications strategy and deliver results through highly effective communications.
6. Administer the process for gathering status across and w/in teams and workstreams to support monitoring and project level status.
7. Communicate status of project to all levels, including senior executive. Ensure project status is accurate, comprehensive, and proactively addresses issues and risks
8. Continuously manage issues and risks proactively, preventing escalated situations.
9. Address project changes as they arise, and often proactively, through altering project processes.
10. Effective organization of meetings to ensure flow of information, progress, proactive mitigation of risks and issues
11. Use influence and expertise to promote an atmosphere of cohesiveness and focused collaboration between all the members of the team in the interest of driving the product forward

TYPICAL EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Required - 5+ years of experience in leading large, complex projects with a focus on testing
• Required - Experience managing ERP related programs/projects is required (PeopleSoft, Workday, Prism, Domo, Oracle, SAP Business Objects, NetSuite, Salesforce etc.).
  • Workday is preferred (Financials or HCM)
• Preferred - PM experience in relevant functional areas (e.g. Billing, Projects, AR/Cash, Credit/Collections)
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Exceptional organizational and time management skills
• Ability to establish and maintain strong relationships
• Exceptional critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Strong and proven leader; self-starter with track record of successful large scale deployments
• Working knowledge of various System Development Life Cycle methodologies (e.g. agile, iterative, waterfall, etc.)
• Thorough knowledge of and demonstrated skills in use of software such as MS Projects, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, JIRA, ServiceNow, Smartsheets, etc.
  • Experience with the following is highly desired:
    • Smartsheet Support - Building dashboards, reports and status
    • JIRA Support - Dashboards, accuracy of updates in JIRA

• BA /BS degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business or equivalent