PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 26 years of IT experience as Project / Product Manager out of which last 12 years as Workday Project Manager.
• Hands on with all modules of Workday.
• Collaborate with client and acquired company business partners; Corporate Technology tech support,, systems engineering, infrastructure, information security, audiovisual, and project management teams; and vendors, generating and reporting status reports to leadership.
• Ability to adapt quickly to new technologies and changing business requirements.
• Manage day - to-day implementation of Workday work streams in coordination with the implementation partner, business functions, and extended stakeholders.
• Accountable for defining, planning, and executing projects within triple constraints and tracking project milestones and project health throughout the full lifecycle.
• Ensuring that project outcomes meet business’ critical success criteria.
• Coordinate project tasks effectively, Identify & Monitor risks, issues, and dependencies, and pull resources together when needed to resolve issues.
• Tracking budgets and performing financial reconciliation for all project expenditures.
• Partner with business owners, technical team and vendors during design, build and testing to ensure business requirements are fully implemented.
• Developing data migration guidance and documenting processes to collect, format and cleanse data in preparation for the migration from PeopleSoft to Workday.
• Mapping data elements, identifying data quality issues, and managing conversion activities.
• Willingness to participate in meetings outside of core hours to support global projects.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Pennington, NJ

Workday Project Director

Responsibilities:

• Helped in Configuration and design of the primary Financials (Workday); consisting of the General Ledger, Business Assets, Supplier Accounts, Projects, Customer Accounts and Contracts functional areas. Auditing and maintaining existing security structure.
• Managed the implementation ofBusiness Assets, Customer Accounts and Revenue Management, Banking and Cash Managementfunctional areas within workday Financials.
• Managed to develop many custom reports for the Financial modules likeProcure to pay, Accounts Payable, Accounts receivable,Business assets, endowments and Gifts, Financial Accounting, Non-sponsored AR andBanking and Settlements.
• Worked on the Signoff of testing forBusiness Assets, Customer Accounts and Revenue and Banking and Settlement Functional Areas.
• Prepare and recordjournal entriesrelated toAccounts payable, Accounts receivable, Payroll, Cash, Assets, and Accruals.
• Used Adaptive Planning and Prism Reporting in ERP implementation.
• Create communication plan. Develop, deliver and present project status reports to executive management.
• Partner with cross-functional leads to identify, document and approve requirements.
• Work with stakeholders and team members to proactively manage cross-functional interdependencies and continuously improve and ensure understanding of expectations per the project plan.
• Managed to implement Workday Payroll with ADP.
• Gathering and entering required payroll inputs. Examples: Benefits, earnings, and deductions from third-party systems.
• Integrating with third-party providers.
• Calculating gross pay, taxes, and deductions.
• Conducting audits before and after payroll processing.
• Generating accounting entries for payroll transactions.
• Providing payslips both online or on mobile devices.
• Providing reports and tools to assist you in your reporting requirements.
• Managed to implement Workday Adaptive Planning.
• Manage data and metadata maintenance, version copies, provide tier-1 user support, maintain user permissions and role access, lead end-user s.
• Manage monthly data loads via manual loads and integrations into Adaptive Planning from Client and perform reconciliations to ensure data integrity.
• Maintain internal documentation for system processes, new models, enhancements and .
• Stay informed on new version releases and system features to assess need for adoption and coordinate testing.
• Develop process improvements with focus on optimizing use of Adaptive Planning.
• Analyze business requirements and translate them into effective & efficient application configuration.
• Provide guidance to Finance team members on the best practices and use of financial systems.
• Work closely with Finance to understand system needs and open technical support tickets to triage issues when necessary.
• Support on-going enhancements and implementations of new Adaptive Planning models.
• Used Prism Analytics for smart reporting.
• Combined external data with Workday internal data to create analytics in the form of reports and dashboards using Prism Analytics.
• Deriving prism dataset from Workday custom report, SFTP/API and uploaded file.
• Leveraging the Workday security model and enhancing overall Workday report writing capabilities.
• Using Prism Analytics to harmonize the HRIS systems.
• The ideal Prism Analytics customer is one that is highly self-sufficient and wants to enhance their tenant with limited guidance.
• Enhancing Prism Analytics using WQL and SQL.
• Using Prism Analytics to deliver high impact results to build user acceptance early.
• Using Prism Analytics to predict the number of hours required for ongoing report configuration and support.
• Using Prism Analytics for a shared effort between technical and functional IT support, report writers with access to Prism datasets, and business analysts who warrant the creation of a Prism Analyst role.
• Empowering business analysts and report writers with access to Prism datasets and Data Discovery to receive the full benefit of Prism and relieve admins from report development that can be self-service.
• Using Prism to allow Workday to deliver more value to customers in areas of security, the UX, visualizations, and data source creation.
• Migration from Oracle Apps to Workday.
• Used Workday provided tool called iLoad to bulk load data into the tenant.
• Mapped data sources into data conversion templates via iLoads.
• Guided client through the data extract and cleansing process, including iLoading customer data, moving configuration from tenant to tenant, and configuring business processes.
• Regularly engage and support the client through all phases of the project, ensuring a smooth transfer from legacy systems to the Workday HCM and Finance modules.
• Mentored the fellow consultants and analysts, including providing shadow assignments.
• Actively participated in update and internal opportunities to share one's skills and learning with others within the organization.
• Developing data migration guidance and documenting processes to collect, format and cleanse data in preparation for the migration.

Confidential, Seatle, WA

Workday Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Hands-on functional and technical experience with Workday Financials including Banking and Settlements, Business Assets, Financial Accounting, Payables, Customer Accounts / Contracts and Workday HCM including HR, Compensation, Benefits. Authored test plans, test scenarios based on requirements. Executed test plans and track defects/fixes.
• Project involved planning, overseeing and implementing Workday HCM workstream project includes Core HCM, Compensation Plans, Onboarding, Benefits, Recruiting, Absence Management, Time Tracking, Payroll, Mobile Solutions, Employee Self-Service, Manager Self-Service, Learning, Talent Management.
• Provide hands-on troubleshooting support to employees in completing transactions.
• Create and maintain Workday user guides and end-user documentation.
• Lead Optimization projects to help clients realize the full potential of Workday.
• Lead workstreams for single module deployments in Workday HCM (such as Recruiting. Talent and Performance, Advanced Comp, Payroll)
• Serve as an advisor to other Workday post-production engagements in accordance with your areas of expertise.
• Build consensus around business processes and design.
• Communication of Workday capabilities and limitations.
• Configuration of Workday application.
• Consistent and ongoing interaction with client subject matter experts.
• Manage on and off shore resources.
• Serve as mentor to junior staff.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed all aspects of project life cycle to facilitate successful delivery.
• Managed the Implementation of Oracle E-business suite enhancements.
• Managed Oracle Apps Project in Order to Cash, Procure to Pay and Demand to Supply etc.
• Preparing and maintaining project plans, tracking progress, producing project administration documents, managing change and other standard project management responsibilities
• Conducted requirements gathering sessions, understand, analyze and document the requirement. Developed As-is and To-be processes, created process work flow, Requirement Specifications (SRS), and Functional Specification Document (FSD).

Confidential

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Client uses ERP for back-office functionality .
• The back-office functionality uses SAP's Consumer Mortgage Loans, Treasury, Financial Controlling and Accounting, Supplier Relationship Management and Human Capital Management modules.
• The Project Manager will be responsible for managing the lifecycle of the remaining phases of the project, currently in its final round of integration testing and preparation for cutover and go-live.
• Conducted requirements gathering sessions, understand, analyze and document the requirement. Developed as-is and To-be processes, created process work flow, Requirement Specifications (SRS), and Functional Specification Document (FSD).
• Adeptly managing teams adhering to established PMO methodologies, conducted regular functional/IT track meetings, communicated to senior management and presented at steering committee meetings. Managed project plans, financials, schedule, resources (internal, external and virtual), quality, risks.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the Project and lead the planning and implementation of multiple business divisions’ Oracle implementation from 11i to R12.Take accountability for project success including on-time, on-budget, high-quality targets.
• Provide timely and accurate project status information to our client’s PMO team, escalate project issues appropriately, mentor cross-functional project team members, and identify and share implementation best practices with them.
• Work independently and creatively in resolving issues.
• Establish common goals across multiple teams, and define useful metrics and reporting to track team performance.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Reconciled consulting invoices and timesheets with project budget.
• Created project budget tracking graphs.
• Assists IT Director and Project Manager in project related administrative functions.
• Created document sets for recurring Project Steering Committee meetings.
• Coordinated and administered conference room schedules and availability.
• Administered existing and new customer accounts for use on the company's eCommerce site.
• Generated and tracked eCommerce sales reports.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Continuously assesses project health, anticipating risk and developing effective mitigation plans that maintain committed project plan
• Develops and manages project recovery plans when necessary, minimizing impact to project commitments
• Collects and analyzes data required to create effective written status reports. Creates and delivers effective written and verbal project status reports
• Proactively engages stakeholders, providing timely, relevant, and transparent project status
• Identifies task dependencies as they arise and takes action to ensure that project schedule is unimpeded by dependencies