Workday Certified Project Manager

Workday Certified Project Manager

Founded by former Workday clients, we value partnership and engagement as a cornerstone of our business. With years of functional and technical experience in all phases of Workday's deployment life cycle, we can determine the most efficient integration designs and rapid deployment strategies. We develop maintainable solutions and provide support for integration testing and updates for new Workday releases.

As a Workday Certified Project Manager, you are responsible for ensuring the successful completion of the project deliverables (e.g., charter, governance, project/staffing plan, issue logs, etc.) and work with the Client project manager to govern milestone deliverables such as Design sign off, Testing approvals, and address any other issues that stand in the way of project success. The Project Manager anticipates and/or identifies scope slip and champions project governance managing to the agreed budget and delivering the project profitably.

This remote role can be located anywhere in Sydney or Melbourne and must have valid authorization to work in Australia.

Key Expectations

• Holds a current Workday HCM or Financials and Workday Project Manager certifications as well as additional training with the goal of becoming an expert in Workday's Implementation Methodology and leverage it on all engagements
• Manage the implementation of 2+ simultaneous projects
• Demonstrate competency in the Workday product suite - HCM, Payroll, and/or Financials
• Participate in the sales cycle when requested to gather requirements, formulate delivery approach and develop a proposal/SOW or Change Order
• Provide guidance and mentoring to other Project Managers working on their implementations
• Ensure projects are properly planned and staffed
• Work with the client project manager to identify/resolve all issues that could impact project scope and/or time frames
• Work with Workday Delivery Assurance to ensure compliance with agreed to checkpoints
• Ability to effectively present at Executive and Project Team levels & understand the needs of each audience
• Facilitate clients' intellectual and practical adoption of Workday best practices
• Identify opportunities to position other service offerings
• Maintain clients' ongoing satisfaction, ensuring Intecrowd is reputable and referenceable once in production
• Ensure the project is delivered within the budget outlined in the SOW
• Present client with Change Orders in the event they're asking Intecrowd to perform tasks that are outside the scope of the SOW
• Demonstrate computational thinking. Identify problem components, analyze patterns, remove inefficient configurations or processes, and construct algorithmic solutions scalable to ongoing client needs
• Contribute to and mold a culture of continuous education amongst your colleagues, mentees, and managers - serve as a professional role model

Required Skills and Experience

• Current Workday Partner PM/EM Certification
• 3+ years' experience project managing Workday HCM, payroll or financial implementations with medium or large enterprise clients
• Consulting experience either as an internal consultant or with a consulting/software company
• Experience implementing Workday, Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft or Salesforce
• Working knowledge with at least one of the following business areas: Human Resources, Benefits, Payroll, General Ledger, Accounts Payable/Receivable, Services procurement
• Excellent organization, time management, and communication skills
• Passion for providing exceptional customer service
• Business development skills
• Previous service sales experience a plus. Successful candidates have a balance of functional (business) and technical experience
• This is a remote position, potential travel expectation is +/-30% depending on project requirements