Workday Project Manager

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, and 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.

Job Duties

• 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or specialized training and three years of IT project management experience.
• PMP certification from PMI or equivalent certification.
• Five years' experience leading projects of moderate to high complexity (must have occurred in the last seven years).
• Three years' hands-on experience leading server-based application development/enhancement projects (must have occurred in the last five years).
• Strong understanding of accounting and procurement principles, financial reporting structures, ERP integrations.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with MS Project, MS Visio, SharePoint 2013, and MS O365.
• Experience within the last three years leading/coordinating vendor managed projects.
• Executive level written and oral communication skills.
• Experience working in state government.
• Experience in hands-on familiarity with: Workday Financial Management, Workday Procurement Management.
• Experience working in an outsourced environment.