Side is hiring a
Workday Manager

Summary

The job is for a Systems Manager at Side, a real estate startup that offers brokerage-as-a-service. The role involves managing the Workday product roadmap, ensuring proper testing and deployment practices, and serving as a mentor to financial systems stakeholders. The candidate should have a strong background in finance and accounting systems integration and maintenance.

Requirements

• BA/BS Degree or equivalent work experience
• Workday ERP / HCM implementation expertise
• 5+ years of experience managing large scale, multi-pillar ERP and HCM implementation
• Candidate has a strong understanding of Accounting and Finance business processes
• Demonstrated experience acting as the liaison between business and IT stakeholders with communication skills to speak appropriately to both parties
• 4 years of Workday Financials experience
• Experience in full life-cycle project development including requirements, design, development, testing and roll-out
• Demonstrated experience in analyzing a business issue and developing a future state recommendation
• Ability to set agendas and facilitate meetings, while focusing in on critical path discussion topics and necessary decisions
• Experience creating training/user documentation
• Ability to self-manage tasks
• Exposure to project related work and standard software implementation artifacts
• Ability to work with teams to uncover, define and document business processes and align them to system processes
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Proven ability to work remotely and independently in support of clients and team members

Responsibilities

• Management of cross functional projects
• Tracking project milestones and communicating status to both internal teams and external teams during weekly meetings
• Providing support creating approach and materials for Workday involving both business and technical stakeholders
• Providing support, gathering business requirements, and translating into design options
• Documenting/defining processes to show where business and system processes align
• Design and development of end-user training materials and communication plans
• Establishing ‘train the trainer’ model and supporting the execution of the training
• Development of user acceptance testing plans/scripts as well as facilitating various testing cycles
• Coordinating roll-out activities
• Defining post production support model and coordinating the hand-off between internal teams
• Prepare and facilitate Steering Committee presentations
• Develop and maintain comprehensive Workday documentation for future reference
• Identify and manage potential project risks associated with Workday implementations or upgrades
• Generate reports and dashboards to monitor system performance and provide data-driven insights for business decisions
• Ad-hoc presentations for the business as needed

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with data management, security protocols, and user access controls within Workday is a plus
• Strong understanding of business processes and the ability to translate them into Workday configurations
• Experience with reporting and analytics tools for Workday is a plus

Benefits

$140,000 - $170,000 a year