Negotiable Salary
Apex Informatics
Atlanta, GA, USA
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