For more details, please connect with Kajal Verma at kajalv@vgroupinc.com or call at 609-564-2786.

Candidate must be local to Atlanta and able to come to the office on occasion

End Client: State of Georgia

Job Title: Senior Project Manager

Duration: 8+ Months

Location: Atlanta, GA 30334

Position Type: Contract

Hours Per Week: 40

Interview Type: Either Web Cam or In Person

Ceipal ID: SGA_PM760_KV

Job Code: 811760

Department: Dept. of Administrative Services (DOAS)

Scope of Project:

Candidate must be local to Atlanta and able to come to the office on occasion

The Project Manager will lead the stabilization and resolution of production issues affecting Workday benefits, payroll deductions, retirement contributions, eligibility, and data exchanges with third-party benefit providers.

The Dept. of Administrative Services (DOAS) is seeking a Senior Project Manager will develop and manage an integrated plan for resolving complex benefits-related issues involving Workday configuration, employee and payroll data, inbound and outbound integrations, transaction processing, vendor systems, and business procedures. The Project Manager will coordinate work across DOAS, statewide ERP teams, functional and technical resources, payroll and finance teams, business analysts, and third-party benefit administrators.

The position will drive issues from identification and prioritization through root-cause analysis, corrective action, testing, production deployment, reconciliation, employee remediation, and verified closure. The Project Manager must be able to establish accountability across organizations, identify dependencies, obtain decisions, and escalate risks that could affect employee benefits, payroll deductions, contributions, vendor funding, or regulatory obligations.

Responsibilities:

Establish and maintain a single authoritative backlog of benefits issues, including business impact, severity, affected population, integration, incident or change number, accountable owner, dependencies, target date, and closure criteria.
Lead cross-functional teams assigned to resolve individual benefits issues. Keep each team focused on the defined issue, desired outcome, and work required for resolution.
Obtain specific next steps, accountable owners, and target completion dates from assigned team members. Track each commitment through completion, follow up on missed dates, address obstacles, and escalate delays when necessary.
Maintain meeting notes in a shared location where participants can clearly see what was discussed and agreed upon. Document decisions, open questions, assigned actions, responsible individuals, and completion dates.
Develop and maintain an integrated stabilization schedule across functional, technical, payroll, finance, and vendor workstreams.
Establish clear roles and responsibilities and secure accountable owners for all activities.
Lead structured issue-triage, working, decision, and executive-status meetings.
Coordinate investigation of source data, Workday configuration, integration logic, vendor processing, transaction timing, and business-process causes.
Manage dependencies among related integrations and prevent separate teams from implementing conflicting corrections.
Coordinate test planning, test data, expected results, regression testing, vendor validation, and business acceptance.
Manage change-control and release-readiness activities from nonproduction environments through production deployment.
Confirm that corrected integrations reconcile to Workday payroll and benefits results and that affected employees and financial transactions have been addressed.
Track risks, decisions, overdue actions, resource constraints, and unresolved ownership; escalate promptly when commitments are not met.
Provide concise executive reporting on issue aging, affected populations, financial exposure, testing progress, blocked decisions, and resolution trends.

Minimum Entry Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in a related field from an accredited college or university AND three years of recent relevant project management experience, with a progression in responsibility AND eligibility to sit for Project management Professional (PMP) certification.

Preferred qualifications:

Prior experience implementing an ERP system or program, particularly human capital management administration
Prior experience implementing business processes in a government organization
Six or more years of related experience in project management coordinating and supporting business processes.
Experience with structured development methodology SDLC
Experience defining and implementing program/project management using tools and expertise in the practical adoption of SDLC methodologies using project management tools (Asana, MS Project, Jira).
Certification as Professional Project Manager (PMP) or Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM).
The candidate must be local to Atlanta and be able to come to the office on occasion.
Required/Preferred Skills:
Recent and verified project management experience of large scale projects – 3 years
Prior experience implementing an ERP systgem or program, particularly human capital administration – 2 years
Related and verified experience in project management coordinating and supporting business processes – 6 years
Certification as Professional Project Manager (PMP) or Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) – 3 years
Prior experience implementing an ERP system or program, particularly human capital management administration
Prior experience implementing business processes in a government organization
Experience with structured development methodology SDLC
Experience with project management tools including Asana, MS Project, and Jira
Workday benefits, payroll deductions, retirement contributions, eligibility, and integrations experience
Experience coordinating functional, technical, payroll, finance, and vendor workstreams
Candidate must be local to Atlanta and able to come to the office on occasion

V Group Inc. is a NJ-based IT Services and Products Company with its business strategically categorized in various Business Units including Public Sector, Enterprise

Solutions, Professional Services, Ecommerce, Projects, and Products. Within

Public Sector business unit, we cater IT Professional Services to Federal,

State and Local. We have multiple awards/ contracts with 30+ states, including

but not limited to NY, CA, FL, GA, MD, MI, NC, OH, OR, CO, CT, TN, PA, TX, VA,

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