Workday Lead Consultant
- P2P SOFTTEK Staffing Services
88 Days Ago
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Remote
5-9 Years
Required Skills: SaaS ERP,
Job Description
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 subject-matter-experts, 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 with 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)
• Bachelor’s 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
* 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 subject-matter-experts, 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 with 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)
• Bachelor’s 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
