Job Description
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Title : Workday HCM Financial consultant
Location : 4801 Columbus Street, Suite 301, Virginia Beach, VA 23462
Duration: 2/1/2026 with option to extend
Job id : 44389
Job Responsibilities:
- 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
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