Workday Lead Job at Apex Informatics, Atlanta, GA

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  • Apex Informatics
  • Atlanta, GA

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, cross-functional 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

. Out of state candidates will be accepted for a 100% remote work schedule. 

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 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) 

• 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

Job Tags

Local area, Remote job,

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