Workday Project Manager
Atlanta GA
Hybrid Role
Virtual/Inperson Interview
Job Description:
- The Workday Cutover Lead will have a proven track record of implementing cloud SaaS ERP projects for large complex initiatives.
- The Cutover Lead will lead a large crossfunctional project team and provide an organizational view of project/program dependencies stakeholder and risk impacts.
- The lead will have effective communication skills organizational awareness and ability to manage critical dependencies and impacts.
- Local candidates strongly preferred. Out of state candidates will be accepted for a 100% remote work schedule.
What You Need for this Position
- Technical Project Management experience
- Operations Management
- Change Management
- Release Management
- Project Management Tools
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage the NextGen Workday cutover planning and execution activities.
- Collaborate with Program Teams Technical teams and implementer resources to build out a detailed project cutover schedule to include tasks for all areas (technical (reports integration security) and functional (HCM Payroll Finance and Procurement) and OCM ( Communications Change Mgmt Training).
- Field questions and escalations regarding cutover activities and work with the cutover team to close open items.
- Manage cutover tasks risks issues and project timelines to assure progress towards cutover completion
- Work with the appropriate system owners business and technical subjectmatterexperts and workstreams to assure cutover and system remediation processes deliverables and milestones are developed and completed.
- Provide comprehensive reporting of cutover activities challenges and risks. In coordination wit project team develop risk mitigation approaches to ensure on time go live
- Prepare and deliver metric reporting demonstrating progress against planned activities
- Escalate items that would impact go live date
- Lead and participate in the cutover planning cutover plan review capture of cutover activity timeframes/durations mock cutover and cutover execution activities.
Essential Skills:
- Prior experience as a Workday implementation program manager (must have managed multiple Workday components)
- Bachelors degree or equivalent
- 0 years of IT experience
- 5 years of Workday SaaS ERP experience
- 10 years of prior project management experience
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Prior experience with state or other public sector clients
- Excellent organizational skills and a leader in the change process
- Ability to collaborate and drive execution at all levels within a business area
- Ability to communicate in written and verbal formats to various situations and audiences
- Expertise in documentation presentation tools and project management tools
- Excellent skills in critical thinking and analysis
- Ability to establish strong working relationships across IT business lines and external stakeholders
- Group facilitation skills negotiation and ability to influence and drive decisions
- Possess understanding of cloud infrastructure architecture and able to clearly guide and articulate needs to successfully onboard and manage new organization