Workday HCM Financial consultant

• Lead, participate and manage the 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, Benefits, Workforce and Recruiting) and OCM (Communications, Change Mgmt, Training).
• Clearly communicating the cutover plan, progress, and any issues to relevant stakeholders (business, IT, and other teams).
• 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.
• Work alongside Testing team to ensure all cutover activities recorded
• Plan and Communicate Workday HCM and FIN test strategy/plans, test cycles and test progress at each relevant stage
• Solid understanding of Workday's logic and ability to think-out-side-the-box
• Ensure cutover phase is properly planned and staffed
• Coordinate with testing team on Direct defect tracking: reporting, documenting and resolving all test defects and appropriate resolution through each test phase ensuring all documentation / decision logs, test outcomes and test results are captured and appropriately logged.
• Provide daily coordination and support of all cutover related activities and Hold Testers and SIs accountable to the testing plan and expected outcomes.
• Evaluate test results, schedules, resources, and risks for program reviews.
• Monitor procedures and checklists to ensure that all areas of the testing processes are well defined and functioning
• Monitor and report weekly on progress and key testing metrics and escalate potential issues or concern to the PMO
  
   

Required Skills

 

• 2-3 years of experience in Workday HCM and/or FIN
• Experience in cutover of workday modules, test plan creation, assistance, and execution.
• A broad overview of Workday HCM and FIN modules, not necessarily an expert in any one or two modules, but a generalist
• Strong understanding of business processes, break/fixes/bug identification and articulation, and basic testing methodology
• Understanding of data migration and system integration
• High functioning and collaborative
• Ability to work with minimal direction and can adapt to variable change
• At least 1 Workday implementation experience preferred
• Experience with Application Lifecycle Management is a plus