Project Manager, Workday Implementation

2 weeks ago

Midrand, Gauteng, South Africa Deka Minas (Pty) Ltd Full time
As a Workday Project Manager, a typical day to include the following:

Responsible for assembling project team, assigning individual responsibilities and enforcing accountability, developing and maintaining a budget and schedule to ensure timely completion of project.

Maintain standard project management documentation and metrics with limited direction.

Work directly with internal and external client counterpart, other project leads, and ongoing operations to deliver successful implementation and manage scope.


  • Manage Workday implementations through all life cycles stages.
  • Execute Project Plan: Execute the tasks as defined in the project plan in order to achieve the project goals.
  • Communicates: Provides information to others both internal and external to the organization; represents the organization to customers and other external sources.
  • Monitor and

Control Project Work:

Measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques to monitor the progress of the project, identify and quantify variances, perform required corrective actions, and communicate to all stakeholders.


  • Manage Project Scope: Manage changes to the project scope, schedule, and costs using appropriate verification techniques to keep the project plan accurate, updated, and reflective of authorized changes as defined in the change management plan; facilitate customer acceptance.
  • Communicate Project Plan: Ensure a common understanding by setting expectations regarding the project plan to align the stakeholders and team members. Implement approved actions and workarounds to mitigate project risks in order to minimize the impact on the project.
  • Client Relationship: Establishes and maintains client relationships. Communicates feedback to leadership as appropriate.
  • Obtain Project Approval from Customer: Obtain project plan approval from the customer.
  • Execute Resource Allocation Plan: Manage resource allocation proactively by ensuring that appropriate resources and tools are assigned according to the project plan.
  • Close Contractual Obligations: Formalize final acceptance for the project from the sponsor/customer by ensuring that the delivered product(s) and services comply with the agreed deliverables lists, scope, and any organizational procedures.
  • Measure Customer Satisfaction: Measure customer satisfaction at the end of the project by capturing customer feedback using appropriate techniques to gain, maintain, and improve customer longterm relationships.
  • Celebrates Accomplishments: Celebrates, either formally or informally, the accomplishment of goals.
  • Engages Others: Engages others in the attainment of the vision for the future. Influences others by enthusiastically sharing the future vision as a means for them to attain their goals.
  • Contributes to the overall team: Contributes to knowledge management capital through activities such as sharing documented lessons learned, documented deliverables, and facilitation of Workday Workshops.
  • Understands quality: Understands quality standards for own work and monitors and manages work of team members, providing feedback as appropriate.

Required Experience:

  • 37 years previous program/project management experience required including scope and requirements definition, problem solving and process
  • Previous experience in implementing Workday in Asia Pacific or globally.
  • Experience leading a project implementation of Workday.
  • Experience leading and participating in technical and crossfunctional projects.
  • Previous functional/technical HCM, Payroll and Financials deployment experience either as an internal consultant or with a consulting/software organization
  • Proficiency with MS Project.
  • Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio
  • Ability to recognize personal skills, abilities, limitations and strengths, taking appropriate action to pursue developmental activities to strengthen skills and experience.
  • Ability to work in a fastpaced environment and to adapt to frequent change.
  • Excellent oral and written communications skills.
  • Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.

Preferred Experience:

  • Workday Certified
  • Strong communication skills with all levels of the organization both internal and external
  • Strong interpersonal skills to support team building
  • Ability to advocate a creative atmosphere, facilitates entrepreneurial meetings, and envisions a final product and overall market acceptance early in the design and/or development process.
  • Ability to develop cooperative relationships to achieve results through a winwin relationship.
  • Ability to establish alliances with other departments and organizations by recognizing dependencies.
  • Awareness of cultural diversity and can embrace and capitalize those differences; applies knowledge in decisionmaking process.
  • Ability to identify project risks by defining risk strategies and developing the risk management plan.
  • Participates as part of a team, understanding the var

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