Workday Lead

Summary

Join our team as a Workday Cutover Lead and leverage your proven track record in implementing cloud SaaS ERP projects for large, complex initiatives. Lead a large, cross-functional project team, providing an organizational view of project dependencies, stakeholder, and risk impacts. Effective communication, organizational awareness, and dependency management are crucial. Local candidates are strongly preferred, but remote work is available for out-of-state candidates. This role requires extensive experience in Workday SaaS ERP, project management, and change management. You will be responsible for leading cutover planning and execution, collaborating with various teams, and ensuring timely project completion.

Requirements

• 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

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 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 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

Preferred Qualifications

Local candidates

Benefits

100% remote work schedule (for out-of-state candidates)