Detailed Description:
Seeking an experienced Workday Project Manager / Implementation Consultant to lead the enterprise-wide implementation of Workday Financial Management and Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions. This role will serve as the internal project lead, managing planning, governance, execution, stakeholder alignment, risk management, testing, training, and deployment. The ideal candidate must possess significant experience leading multiple Workday Financials implementations and have a proven track record of delivering complex ERP transformations involving Finance, Human Resources, Payroll, and Reporting functions. The consultant will work closely with executive leadership, functional teams, the implementation partner, and third-party vendors to ensure successful delivery of business objectives.
This role has the potential to virtual work
Job Expectations:
- Manage project scope, objectives, and deliverables, ensuring alignment with business goals.
- Develop and maintain comprehensive project documentation, including project plans, budgets, timelines, resource requirements, status reports, and post-project evaluations. Provide regular updates to executive management on project status, milestone tracking, and performance metrics.
- Support various project governance activities including data management, document management, meeting management, scheduling and leadership reporting.
- Collaborate with the leaders from Finance, IT, Operations, Change Management, Corporate Communications and external vendors to develop full-scale project plans, communication plans and associated documents.
- Coordinate with internal resources and third parties/vendors for flawless project execution.
- Serve as the primary point of contact between the Company and the external Workday System Integrator (SI).
- Establish clear governance, communications, escalation paths, and decision-making processes between internal stakeholders and the SI.
- Review and challenge implementation recommendations to ensure alignment with business objectives and industry best practices.
- Monitor SI performance against project plans, milestones, deliverables, budgets, and contractual obligations.
- Coordinate and facilitate design workshops, status meetings, issue resolution sessions, and steering committee reviews.
- Ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget.
- Manage changes to the project scope, project schedule, and project costs using appropriate verification techniques.
- Measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques, promptly reporting and escalating issues as needed.
- Identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies to ensure that projects remain on track.
- Direct project team during execution: contribute to project artifacts, consult with Core Team and Steering Committee, and facilitate pre-launch change management, and/or manage projects directly.
- Develop and maintain trusted advisor relationships with Functional Leaders, C-Suite, Business Owners, Functional Process Leaders, and other stakeholders.
- Establish and maintain relationships with third parties/vendors.
- Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation (meeting agendas and notes, change and issue logs, project schedule, Steering Committee presentations etc.).
- Build deep understanding of business drivers and functional requirements before identifying technical solutions.
- Prepare for requirements gathering by compiling examples (e.g., business use case scenarios, business transactions, reports, and examples of customers/vendor invoices).
- Contribute to converting functional requirements into user stories that will be used to configure and build the system.
- Assist with review and testing of system configuration and builds, including User Acceptance Testing and Pilot coordination.
- Coordinate and manage successful data migration.
- Assist with development and delivery of change management, education and training.
- Monitor preparation and deployment from one tenant/environment to another throughout the system implementation (e.g., Development, Test and Production environment promotion).
- Participate in post go-live system support (e.g., Hypercare Support)
- Provide leadership and mentoring for project team members and key stakeholders across the organization as needed.
Desired Skills and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Project Management, Business Administration, Information Technology, Engineering or equivalent experience required.
- 8+ years’ comparable experience as a functional partner or program/project/product manager required.
- Prior experience with at least two full-cycle Workday implementations required. At least 1 Workday Financials project preferred.
- Prior experience as Workday HCM project manager or HCM workstream lead preferred
- Strong understanding of finance operations, accounting practices, financial controls, and reporting requirements.
- 3+ years’ experience in IT or Software Development preferred.
- Proven track record of managing complex projects and/or enterprise transformation programs required.
- Process understanding in Project Delivery, including project estimation, resource forecasting, workload planning, project controls and reporting, project team collaboration required.
- Process understanding in Risk Management, including project controls and reporting, trend analysis and risk mitigation strategies.
- Hands-on experience with data visualization tools is a plus; developing reporting dashboards is preferred.
- Ability to collaborate with multiple layers of the organization with proven success initiating change and influencing at all levels.
- Solid analytical, problem solving and project management skills.
- Experience and comfort leading projects with ambiguity and changing priorities.
- PMP Certification or Master’s degree-related in a job-related area is a plus.
- Strong interpersonal and customer service skills, ability to build trusted relationships.
Success Measures
The consultant will be evaluated on:
- On-time and on-budget delivery of the Workday implementation.
- Achievement of key business process transformation objectives.
- Stakeholder satisfaction across Finance, HR, and executive leadership.
- Effective management of the Workday System Integrator and delivery against contractual commitments.
- Successful completion of testing and deployment milestones.
- Quality and accuracy of data migration and integrations.
- Achievement of adoption, training, and change management goals.
- Transition to a sustainable post-go-live support model.
Reporting Relationship
This position reports directly to the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and works in close partnership with the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), Chief Information Officer (CIO), executive sponsors, and implementation partners.
Pay: $170,000.00 - $200,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Flexible schedule
Work Location: Remote
