job summary:
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.
location: Atlanta, Georgia
job type: Contract
salary: $85 - 105 per hour
work hours: 8am to 5pm
education: Bachelors
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.
qualifications:
Prior experience as a Workday implementation program manager (must have managed multiple Workday components)
5 years of Workday SaaS ERP experience
10 years of prior project management experience
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
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Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including health, an incentive and recognition program, and 401K contribution (all benefits are based on eligibility).
This posting is open for thirty (30) days.