Workday Delivery Lead with Fortune 500 Bank

Akkodis is seeking a Workday Delivery Lead for a contract position with our Fortune 500 banking client.

Location: Can sit in either Kennesaw, GA; Chicago, IL; Richmond, VA

Rate: $62-67/hr W2. The rate may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors.

Position Summary:

• Delivery Lead role will support the Workday application in managing and coordinating various project activities including the semi-annual Feature Releases and various downstream initiatives.
• Partners with business partners to understand new and existing use cases to optimize their process needs and to support improved reporting.
• Ensure that all change is adhering to our Enterprise Change Management standards while facilitating/influencing the partners through the process/timeline; become a subject matter expert of the Workday application, understand our Agile processes, and work closely with our architects/developers on solutions and testing.
• Plan and coordinate delivery and dependencies across multiple teams.
• Facilitate dependency management/risk management/impediment removal for the defined deliverables.
• Promote/facilitate communication and collaboration across organizations to support the deliverable completion and timeline.
• Gather/facilitate status updates for the deliverables to stakeholders pertaining to delivery, risks/issues, and schedule.
• Ensure that execution is aligned with deliverable requirements by working with the stakeholders.
• Support resource planning for delivery/execution by working with the Lead Developer.

Line of Business Job Description:

Delivery Lead within Global Human Resources Technology. Partners with key Business, Development, Business Solutions, Program/Project Management, Architecture, Production Support and Testing Execs to develop and implement the tactical and strategic planning of all phases of application, environment and support management.

Responsibilities include:

- Business relationship management, liaison to Global Human Resources and Shared Service Providers (SSPs)

- Effectively manage through banks processes.

- Ensures deliverables comply with Enterprise Application Management Policies and Procedures.

- Provide leadership, and management with a focus on ensuring delivery and execution are being managed against strategic goals and direction

- Manage and provide Application portfolio oversight working closely with application and/or vendor managers

- Provide risk oversight for business and technology risk

Required Skills:

- Ability to navigate across organizational or perceived boundaries with incomplete information to achieve successful outcomes.

- Experience with JIRA

- Interact with business leaders, external vendors, and internal technology groups.

- Effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment is crucial as well as time management skills.

- Required to work both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative manner.

- Not afraid to ask questions.

- Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, an EAP program, commuter benefits, and a 401K plan. Our benefit offerings provide employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. In addition, our associates may be eligible for paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law, as well as Holiday pay where applicable. Disclaimer: These benefit offerings do not apply to client-recruited jobs and jobs that are direct hires to a client.

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· The California Fair Chance Act

· Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance

· Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers

· San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance