100% Remote Workday Cutover Lead || EST Locals Only || LINKEDIN is MUST

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Position: Workday Cutover Lead
Location: 100% Remote (EST Only)
Duration: 6+ Months

Job Description

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.

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 with project team develop risk mitigation approaches to ensure on time go live

Prepare and deliver metric reporting demonstrating progress against 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

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 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

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Yashwant Singh
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