Workday Project Manager

Title: Workday Project Manager

Location: Atlanta, GA

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.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor s degree inrelated field or specialized training and three years of IT project managementexperience
• PMP certification fromPMI or equivalent certification
• 5 years' experienceleading projects of moderate to high complexity (must have occurred in the last7 years).
• 3 years' hands onexperience leading server-based application development/enhancement projects(must have occurred in the last 5 years).
• Hands-on experience withMS Project, MS Visio, SharePoint 2013, and MS O365
• Strong understanding of:
• Accounting and procurement principles
• Financial reporting structures
• ERP integrations

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience within the last 3 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