Workday Cutover Lead

Workday Cutover LeadThe 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.Technical Project Management experienceOperations ManagementChange ManagementRelease ManagementProject Management ToolsLead 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 completionWork 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 livePrepare and deliver metric reporting demonstrating progress against planned activitiesEscalate items that would impact go live dateLead and participate in the cutover planning, cutover plan review, capture of cutover activity timeframes/durations, mock cutover, and cutover execution activitiesPrior experience as a Workday implementation program manager (must have managed multiple Workday components)Bachelor's degree or equivalent0 years of IT experience5 years of Workday SaaS ERP experience10 years of prior project management experienceExcellent written and oral communication skillsPrior experience with state or other public sector clientsExcellent organizational skills and a leader in the change processAbility to collaborate and drive execution at all levels within a business areaAbility to communicate in written and verbal formats to various situations and audiencesExpertise in documentation, presentation tools, and project management toolsExcellent skills in critical thinking and analysisAbility to establish strong working relationships across IT, business lines and external stakeholdersGroup facilitation skills, negotiation and ability to influence and drive decisionsPossess understanding of cloud infrastructure architecture and able to clearly guide and articulate needs to successfully onboard and manage new organization