SAO Workday Cutover Lead

SAO Workday Cutover Lead Under limited supervision, analyzes customer business needs and participates in the planning, design, and implementation of systems. Serves as subject matter expert, providing authoritative guidance for professional staff. May also serve in a lead role.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. Local candidates strongly preferred. Out of state candidates will be accepted for a 100% remote work schedule.What You Need for this PositionTechnical Project Management experienceOperations ManagementChange ManagementRelease ManagementProject Management ToolsPrimary Duties and ResponsibilitiesLead 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 activities.