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- The Workday Technical Specialist 4 is responsible for supporting Client in the implementation of Workday Financial.
- The candidate must have prior experience with Workday Financial and Workday Human Capital Management; implementation and data conversion experience are preferred.
- The Technical Specialist 4 will be responsible for adhering to project management governance. Additionally, the Technical Specialist 4 will be accountable for generating project schedules, identifying/staffing needed resourcing, completing the procurement of vendor products / implementation services, and submitting funding requests as required. The Technical Specialist 4 will manage the delivery efforts and report status of each to the COO and/or Executive Steering Committee.
- The Technical Specialist 4 will be part of a team responsible for all aspects of project governance, assessment, management and control. The ability to gather and define requirements; build a project plan; identifying resource needs; and transparent, clear communications across all levels of stakeholders. Essential is the ability to multi-task on continually changing and morphing priorities as prescribed by leadership in response to department and legislative direction.
- The mapping of current financial structures, projects, and cost allocation processes from the department's current accounting system to the Workday system
- Data conversion, including the testing and reconciliation of financial data in the Workday system
- A redesign of current financial processes to better align with the Workday system
- Scenario modeling
- Attendance at stakeholder meetings to ensure the department is aware of and involved in the latest Workday design efforts
- Manual writing
- Project management activities to ensure implementation requirements and timeframes are met
- Ability to work within a project governance structure (methodology, required templates and reporting)
- Ability to interact with, educate, learn from, and drive business and IT/Fiscal teams.
- Ability to work effectively under very broad direction with general supervision
- Ability to motivate team and meet deadlines in a fast-paced and challenging environment.
- Ability to gather and organize multiple simultaneous complex business process scenarios
- Ability to break down complex tasks into actionable work items, sequenced appropriately
- Ability to manage scope creep with a focus on delivering a minimum viable product
- Excellent organizational, presentation, interpersonal and team building skills
- Excellent time management and project planning/strategizing skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Demonstrated experience with managing client expectations, implementing service improvement initiatives
- Demonstrated experience managing multiple parallel work efforts
- Track project progress, monitor and modify project schedules and provide status updates to project team. Escalate issues to management and/or appropriate leadership as appropriate.
- Provide insight and knowledge into improving processes related to portfolio, project and program management
- Other duties or tasks as assigned by management.
- Direct management of Human Capital Management integration projects
- Direct management of Workday Financial system integration projects
- Experience managing stakeholder expectations and priorities
- Experience working within a project governance structure (methodology, required templates and reporting)
- Extensive experience with planning, managing and tracking multiple major impact projects.
- Strong process development skills, w/ the ability to learn and understand concepts in order to interpret, document and formalize procedures
- Strong process and gap analysis skills
- Excellent project management skills, w/ the ability to multitask and manage multiple tasks with changing priorities in a cross-functional environment
- Demonstrated experience with working with business users to gather and document business requirements
- Demonstrated experience with managing client expectations and implementing change management initiatives.
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