Workday Cutover Lead

Job Title: Workday Cutover Lead
Location: Atlanta, GA (Hybrid 2-3 days. /week)
Duration: 10 months Contract (High possibility of extension)

Job Description:
Position 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. 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 aProductst 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.