100% Remote Workday Cutover Lead || EST Locals Only || LINKEDIN is MUST
About The Position
The Workday Cutover Lead will lead cutover planning and execution for a NextGen Workday implementation. The role requires experience implementing cloud SaaS ERP projects for large, complex initiatives and involves leading a large, cross-functional project team. The lead provides an organizational view of project and program dependencies, stakeholder impacts, and risks, and manages critical dependencies and impacts through effective communication and organizational awareness. The lead will work with program teams, technical teams, implementer resources, system owners, business and technical subject-matter experts, and workstreams to develop and execute a detailed cutover schedule covering technical, functional, and organizational change management activities. The role also manages cutover tasks, risks, issues, timelines, reporting, mock cutovers, and go-live readiness.
Requirements
- Prior experience as a Workday implementation program manager, including management of multiple Workday components.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
- 10 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 ability to lead change.
- Ability to collaborate and drive execution at all levels within a business area.
- Ability to communicate in written and verbal formats for various situations and audiences.
- Expertise with documentation, presentation tools, and project management tools.
- Strong critical-thinking and analytical skills.
- Ability to establish strong working relationships across IT, business lines, and external stakeholders.
- Group facilitation skills, negotiation ability, and ability to influence and drive decisions.
- Understanding of cloud infrastructure architecture and ability to guide and articulate needs for onboarding and managing a new organization.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage NextGen Workday cutover planning and execution activities.
- Collaborate with program teams, technical teams, and implementer resources to develop a detailed cutover schedule covering technical areas (reports, integration, and security), functional areas (HCM, Payroll, Finance, and Procurement), and organizational change management activities (communications, change management, and training).
- Respond to 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 maintain progress toward cutover completion.
- Work with system owners, business and technical subject-matter experts, and workstreams to ensure cutover and system remediation processes, deliverables, and milestones are developed and completed.
- Provide comprehensive reporting on cutover activities, challenges, and risks.
- Develop risk mitigation approaches with the project team to support an on-time go-live.
- Prepare and deliver metric reporting that demonstrates progress against planned activities.
- Escalate items that could affect the go-live date.
- Lead and participate in cutover planning, cutover plan reviews, capture of activity timeframes and durations, mock cutovers, and cutover execution.
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Career Level
Senior
