Workday Cutover Lead SAO
Workday Cutover Lead SAO
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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.
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
Required Skills : Business AnalysisProject Management
Basic Qualification :
Additional Skills :
This is a high PRIORITY requisition. This is a PROACTIVE requisition
Background Check : No
Drug Screen : No
Employment Type
Full Time
