Workday Project Manager

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It’s why we’re so driven to connect passion with purpose. Our team’s experience in human insights and cloud technology gives companies and employees around the world the ability to power confident decisions, for life.

With a comprehensive total rewards package, continuing education and training, and tremendous potential with a growing global organization, Strada is the perfect place to put your passion to work.

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Workday Project Manager

Job Summary

The Workday Project Manager (PM) will be directly responsible for overseeing all stages of the project and project delivery. The responsibilities include assembling project teams, assigning individual responsibilities and enforcing accountability, developing and maintaining a budget and schedule to ensure timely completion of project, maintaining standard project management documentation and metrics with limited direction, working directly with internal and external client counterparts, other project leads, and ongoing operations to deliver successful implementation, and managing the scope of the project. The Workday Project Manager will also be responsible for promoting team engagement and building and maintaining a successful relationship with the client.

Key Responsibilities

·         Leads ME/Launch, Phase X, or smaller LE (under 15k Employees) projects.

·         May participate in sales opportunities and process.

·         Acts as a coach or buddy for Associate PM or a PM.

·         Participates in building the practice initiatives.

·         Manages Workday implementations through all life cycles stages.

·         Work with the Client PM to develop the project plan and project charter, including procedures for managing Actions, Risks and Issues throughout the project.

·         Communicate Project Plan: ensure a common understanding by setting expectations regarding the project plan to align the stakeholders and team members. Implement approved actions and workarounds to mitigate project risks in order to minimize the impact on the project.

·         Execute Project Plan: execute the tasks as defined in the project plan in order to achieve the project goals.

·         Monitor and Control Project Work: measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques to monitor and report on the progress of the project against plan and budget, identify and quantify variances, perform required corrective actions, and communicate to all stakeholders.

·         Manage Project Scope: manage changes to the project scope, schedule, roles & responsibilities and costs using appropriate verification techniques to keep the project plan and budget accurate, updated, and reflective of authorized changes as defined in the change control procedures; facilitate customer acceptance.

·         Ensure any sign-offs required for the project (e.g. stage and/or milestone sign-offs, design sign-offs, Stage Gate Reviews, Change Order sign-offs etc.) are obtained in a timely manner.

·         Close Contractual Obligations: Formalize final acceptance for the project from the sponsor/customer by ensuring that the delivered product(s) and services comply with the agreed deliverables lists, scope, and any organizational procedures. Ensuring the end of project survey is sent to the client as well as performing a project lessons learned.

·         Communicates: Provides information to others both internal and external to the organization; represents the organization to customers and other external sources.

·         Partnership with Workday: liaise with Workday in terms of the project status updates, Delivery Assurance Checkpoints, product gap reporting and other processes as defined in Workday Deployment Methodology.  Set up and maintain Customer Scorecard in the Partner Centre, manage creation and access to Client’s tenants including Customer Central.

Align and Manage Resources and Budget

·         Execute Resource Allocation Plan: manage resource allocation proactively by ensuring that appropriate resources and tools are assigned according to the project plan.

·         Celebrate, either formally or informally, the accomplishment of goals.

·         Engage Others: introduce the Alight project team members to the project. Manage, guide and motivate the Alight project team. Set clear vision, expectations and milestones for the project. Facilitate and enable effective teamwork and collaboration.

·         Manage Client billing: with support from a Project Coordinator, ensure that any time spent on the project work gets reported against the right project codes and charged to the client (unless agreed otherwise with the Engagement Executive).

·         Monitor and manage project budget and margin, take corrective actions when required.

Contribute to Practice Building

·         Contributes to knowledge management capital through activities such as sharing documented lessons learned, documented deliverables, and internal methodology initiatives

·         Understands quality standards for own work and monitors and manages work of team members, providing feedback as appropriate.

·         Follow Alight Workday Deployment Methodology, suggest improvements and proactively address issues.

Ensure Customer Success

·         Client Relationship: establishes and maintains client relationships.  Communicates feedback to leadership as appropriate.

·         Client Success: in conjunction with project’s Lead Consultants, plan and execute adequate Knowledge Transfer (within SOW scope) to the Client so they can be self-sufficient in administering Workday post go-live. Identify opportunities to introduce the Customer to Alight’s ongoing support offering, if the project is an initial deployment, and other services that may be beneficial for the Customer. If the ongoing support service is purchased, ensure timely completion of handover from the Project to the ongoing support team.

·         Measure Customer Satisfaction: measure customer satisfaction at the end of the project by capturing customer feedback using appropriate techniques to gain, maintain, and improve customer long-term relationships.

Knowledge, Education, Certification, Skills & Technical Proficiencies

Required

·         Bachelor’s degree in Business, Math, Computer Science, or Finance

·         Proficiency with MS Project

·         Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio

·         Ability to recognize personal skills, abilities, limitations and strengths, taking appropriate action to pursue developmental activities to strengthen skills and experience

·         Ability to work in a fast-paced multinational environment and to adapt to frequent change

·         Ability to work under tight deadlines and manage conflicting priorities

·         Excellent oral and written communications skills

·         Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

·         Commercial acumen – understanding what drives project revenue and profitability. Ability to effectively manage project budgets and forecasting to maximize revenue and profitability.

·         Good understanding of project management processes and techniques – including planning, progress tracking, risk and issue management frameworks, change control frameworks, sign-off procedures

·         If not already certified, must successfully pass Workday HCM and/or Financials Core and PM training classes and retain Workday certification

Preferred

·         Strong interpersonal skills to support team building

·         Ability to advocate a creative atmosphere, facilitate entrepreneurial meetings, and envision a final product and overall market acceptance early in the design and/or development process

·         Ability to develop cooperative relationships to achieve results through a win-win relationship

·         Ability to establish alliances with other departments and organizations by recognizing dependencies

·         Ability to transfer own knowledge to more junior colleagues and coach others

·         Ability to provide best practice advice to help clients put in place an effective project structure and governance framework

·         Ability to modify project deployment approach to cater for client specific requirements and constraints in a way that also caters for Alight business needs as well as Workday Delivery Assurance requirements

·         General understanding of Workday’s functionality (different modules and high level dependencies) as well as implementation tools

·         Awareness of cultural diversity and can embrace and capitalize those differences; applies knowledge in decision-making process

·         Project planning/scheduling and budgeting skills

·         Ability to identify project risks by defining risk strategies and developing the risk management plan

·         Participates as part of a team, understanding the various work styles of others and their roles on the team.  Demonstrates enthusiasm and commitment to the goals and objectives of the team.  Seeks help from other team members as appropriate

·         Ability to represent the company and department in a positive and professional manner

·         Embraces entrepreneurial spirit in work through recognizing and capitalizing on opportunities to improve the organization

·         Project Management certification (PMP or PRINCE2 Practitioner) is beneficial but not required

Work Experience

·         3 to 5+ years of previous program/project management experience required including scope and requirements definition, problem solving and process improvements in current Internet-based technology environment

·         Experience of successfully leading a project implementation of Workday, PeopleSoft, Oracle, SAP or similar applications

·         Experience leading and participating in technical and cross-functional projects

·         Previous functional/technical HCM, Payroll and Financials deployment experience either as an internal consultant or with a consulting/software organization

·         Experience of communicating effectively with different levels of management internally and/or on the client side

Work Environment

Ability to work virtual from home or in an Alight office environment.

Check boxes as appropriate

Yes

No

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Travel Required

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If yes, indicate % of time:

Up to 50%

Physical Demands

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If yes, describe physical effort/demand requirements:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to, stand, sit; talk, hear, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer and telephone keyboard

Regular, predictable attendance is required

Ability to sit at a computer terminal for an extended period

Benefits

We offer programs and plans for a healthy mind, body, wallet and life because it’s important our benefits care for the whole person. Options include a variety of health coverage options, wellbeing and support programs, retirement, vacation and sick leave, maternity, paternity & adoption leave, continuing education and training as well as a number of voluntary benefit options. 

By applying for a position with Strada, you understand that, should you be made an offer, it will be contingent on your undergoing and successfully completing a background check consistent with Strada’s employment policies. Background checks may include some or all the following based on the nature of the position: SSN/SIN validation, education verification, employment verification, and criminal check, search against global sanctions and government watch lists, credit check, and/or drug test.  You will be notified during the hiring process which checks are required by the position.

Our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Strada is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We celebrate differences and believe in fostering an environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and supported. We know that diverse teams are stronger, more innovative, and more successful.

At Strada, we welcome and embrace all individuals, regardless of their background, and are dedicated to creating a culture that enables every employee to thrive. Join us in building a brighter, more inclusive future.

Diversity Policy Statement

Strada is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against anyone based on sex, race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital or domestic partner status, citizenship, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics or conduct covered by federal, state or local law.   In addition, we take affirmative action to employ and advance in the employment of qualified minorities, women, disabled persons, disabled veterans and other covered veterans.

Strada provides reasonable accommodations to the known limitations of otherwise qualified employees and applicants for employment with disabilities and sincerely held religious beliefs, practices and observances, unless doing so would result in undue hardship. Applicants for employment may request a reasonable accommodation/modification by contacting his/her recruiter.

Authorization to work in the Employing Country

Applicants for employment in the country in which they are applying (Employing Country) must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the Employing Country and with Strada.

Note, this job description does not restrict management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job to other entities; including but not limited to subsidiaries, partners, or purchasers of Strada business units.

We offer you a competitive total rewards package, continuing education & training, and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization.
 

DISCLAIMER:

Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job to other entities; including but not limited to subsidiaries, partners, or purchasers of Alight business units.

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