Sr. Workday Hcm Project Manager

Workday Project Manager2-4 years contract The HCM project manager may oversee a single project or multiple interdependent projects. Work may include the following tasks:

• Strong leadership skills including the building of effective teams, an ability to manage conflict, the effective setting of priorities in the team and an ability to clearly define roles, responsibilities, and objectives
• Effective strategic, long-term, and planning thought processes
• Reporting on project status including work completed, issues, improvement opportunities and team morale
• Ability to develop and maintain positive work relationships.
• Work closely with vendor project manager(s) to coordinate work of client and vendor resources
• Ability to interact effectively with end users, to understand their use cases and issues. Provide guidance to client teams on the development and completion of deliverables.
• Strong knowledge of the SDLC project life cycle
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written, and organizational skills.Requirements:
• 10+ years of project management/program management experience
• Understanding and use of document management and version control.
• Create reports and presentations for project status; presents to management and leadership.
• Ability to prepare technical and strategic issues for management decisions
• Strong communication and presentation skills to project team and State leadership
• Ability to execute high quality customer service by anticipating customer needs, providing services accurately, in a respectful and timely manner, and establishing and maintaining effective contact and follow through with customers.
• Experience working with data systems and acting as a liaison between business users and technical staff
• PMP certification preferred
• Ensure project milestones and deadlines are met.
• Responsible for facilitating the execution of a project by ensuring the quality, completeness, tracking of tasks, deliverables, and project milestones
• Planning, initiation, and execution of large, complex IT and business-related projects
• Experience with large public sector customers (another state or large county) is preferred but not mandatory Sr. Workday HCM Project Manager
• Must work collaborative with team members to ensure resource availability and task completion
• Pro-active customer support, working tirelessly to anticipate end user issues
• Works across business to resolve elevated issues internally and with the customer, ensuring barriers that could impede project progress are communicated.
• Execute, monitor, and control the schedule, cost deliverables, risk management and scope to meet or exceed stakeholder and customer expectations.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Project, Vision, SharePoint and the Microsoft Office Suite.
• Ability to organize and evaluate data to drive decision making.
• Participate in project closing activitiesKnowledge/Skills/Abilities:
• Incorporate risk mitigation strategy and contingency plan
• Strong knowledge of project management tools
• Draft or assist in the development of program plans, work breakdown structures, or other project artifacts to ensure successful delivery
• Document and manage dependencies related to project
• Demonstrated ability to identify and mitigate project risks
• Strong knowledge of MS Project Online
• Work with change management resources to ensure effective communication across the project team and assigned stakeholders
• Ability to collaborate and work effectively as a team member.
• At least 5+ years working with Workday HCM modules
• Proper scheduling of resources and time management
• Ability to work with diverse communities and sensitivity to needs and concerns of various cultural groups.
• Demonstrated ability to moderate and lead projects and drive decisions
• Perform analysis that reflects actual vs. planned variances
• Facilitate communication across the project and cross-functional teams
• Facilitate meetings to capture, review and approve requirements