Location – Atlanta, Georgia (Hybrid)
Under limited supervision, analyses customer business needs and participates in the
Job Description:
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 subject-matter-experts, and work streams 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
· 10 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