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Job Title: Workday Project Manager
Location: Atlanta, GA
Work Arrangement: Hybrid
Responsibilities:
Job Title: Workday Project Manager
Location: Atlanta, GA
Work Arrangement: Hybrid
Responsibilities:
- Lead and coordinate a Workday Financial Management and Procurement project of moderate to high complexity, including implementations, enhancements, integrations, and optimization initiatives.
- Provide full lifecycle project leadership across Workday Financials modules including:
- General Ledger
- Accounts Payable & Accounts Receivable
- Asset Management
- Procurement (requisitions, purchase orders, supplier management, inventory if applicable)
- Banking & Settlements
- Financial Reporting
- Partner closely with Finance, Accounting, and Procurement business owners to align Workday system design with accounting policies, purchasing workflows, approval hierarchies, and compliance requirements.
- Collaborate with Workday functional leads, integration developers (EIB, Studio, Core Connectors), third-party vendors, and internal SMEs to deliver scalable, compliant solutions.
- Track Workday configuration, data conversion, integrations, security roles, and end-to-end testing cycles activities.
- Assist in cutover planning, production readiness activities, and post-production stabilization for Workday Financials and Procurement deployments with project team.
- Provides continuing direction to the project team, conducts status meetings, assesses proposed changes in scope, and recommends courses of action to project sponsors during the execution phase.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Finance, Procurement, IT, vendors, and integration partners to achieve defined business and system objectives.
- Facilitate business process assessments and redesign efforts focused on:
- Procure-to-Pay (P2P)
- Record-to-Report (R2R)
- Supplier onboarding and management
- Spend controls and approval workflows
- Financial reporting optimization
- Monitor project milestones and activities, testing cycles, data validation checkpoints, and integration readiness to proactively address schedule or quality risks for DHS.
- Maintain strong working relationships with Finance leadership, Procurement leadership, Workday implementation partners, auditors, and internal PMO stakeholders.
- Bachelor s degree in related field or specialized training and three years of IT project management experience
- PMP certification from MI or equivalent certification
- 5 years' experience leading projects of moderate to high complexity (must have occurred in the last7 years).
- 3 years' hands on experience leading server-based application development/enhancement projects(must have occurred in the last 5 years).
- Hands-on experience withs Project, MS Visio, SharePoint 2013, and MS O365
- Strong understanding of:
- Accounting and procurement principles
- Financial reporting structures
- ERP integrations