What are the responsibilities and job description for the Workday Cutover Lead position at A R Systems Inc.,?
Job Description
Job Description
Job Title : Workday Cutover Lead
Job Location : Atlanta, GA (Hybrid)
Job Interview : Video
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