Workday Technical Lead

Workday FSCM Go Live Readiness Lead 

At B&A, we foster and embrace a distinct set of values that we live by and instill in all aspects of our organization: dedication, commitment, partnership, trust, and recognition. We have incorporated these values into successful delivery for our customers since 1988. B&A believes in ensuring its employees feel deeply connected to B&A, recognizing successes and hard work, and providing continuous opportunities to learn and grow. Our people are entrepreneurial thinkers that combine mindset, vision, and experience to drive value – not only to us as an organization, but to the clients we support. We promote a collaborative culture with our clients, and with each other, as one team working towards a common vision. We’d love for you to join our team!

Job Summary

B&A is looking for a Workday FSCM Go Live Readiness Lead to[join a contract in support of an important mission.  This role will be the Go Live Readiness Lead for the Workday Financials and Supply Chain Management upgrade. Length of contract, 12 months.

Responsibilities

• Deploying templates and standards. 
• Co-developing the team plans, timelines, organizational structure, and effort estimates. 
• Meeting deliverable schedule. 
• Leading the assignment of work items to team members/subject matter experts. 
• Overseeing the work of the external consulting team members. 
• Reviewing new/revised configuration and documentation. 
• Validating development item, security, and batch functional specifications. 
• Outlining test requirements, gathering test examples and data and developing test scripts. 
• Performing testing efforts, including researching and resolving issues. 
• Creating/revising business processes/user procedures, and providing training material inputs. 
• Confirming team member and subject matter expert deliverables are completed within quality, timeline and budgetary requirements. 
• Liaise with project team members to facilitate issue resolution and completion of deliverables. 
• Escalating issues which affect delivery and quality that are beyond scope of influence. 
• Providing accurate and detailed weekly task reports to the Project Managers.

Education and Experience

• More than 5 years of Workday Financial and Supply Chain Management implementation/upgrade experience as a functional team member within responsibility area. 

Qualifications

• Extensive experience developing functional project plans, documenting the business processes and application configuration revisions, writing functional specifications, creating test scripts, executing test scripts, researching and resolving testing issues, documenting user procedures, and preparing for and executing go-live activities. 
• Experience with Workday Financial and Supply Chain Management upgrade and/or implementation activities at higher education, public sector, or healthcare industry clients. 
• Historical perspective and expertise working on customized Workday Financials and Supply Chain Management and integrating with enterprise performance management (EPM) functionality, and custom and/or 3rd Party Systems (i.e. position budgeting, recruiting, time clocks, service providers, identity mgmt., etc.). 
• Extensive experience leading teams comprised of integrated client, consulting firm, and/or independent Workday consultants. 
• Experience performing upgrade and/or implementation projects in a multi-entity shared services transaction processing environment with employee populations of greater than 50,000. 
• Expertise with Microsoft Office suite of products such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Access, MS Project, and SharePoint and/or equivalent.

Required Skills

• Knowledge of Workday Financial and Supply Chain Management transaction processing and enterprise performance management (EPM) technologies. 
• Knowledge of full Systems Development Lifecycle (SDLC) from a go-live readiness perspective. 
• Ability to keep data confidential. 
• Strong problem solving and analytic skillsets. 
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to create leader, user, and project documentation and procedures, clearly and concisely. 
• Strong meeting facilitation and interviewing skills. 
• Meeting presentation skills. 
• Ability to work well with individuals at all levels within and outside the organization. 
• Extensive supervising, coaching, interpersonal, and collaborating skills and overseeing high quality and timely deliverable creation. 
• Ability to work well under pressure and multi-tasking in a fast-paced organization.

More About B&A:

Notable Clients
B&A has grown to be a company that is trusted by our clients for exceptional service, innovative solutions, and inspired employees. Our service extends through federal, state, and local Government, the private sector, and higher education. Some of our notable clients include Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Senate, U.S. Courts, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Navy, and more.

Benefits and Programs

B&A is proud to offer three robust individual and family medical plans to full time employees, including a Health Savings Account (HSA) option as well as two tiers of dental coverage, vision, life & AD&D, disability, accident, hospital indemnity, and critical illness insurance. In addition to these benefits, B&A employees enjoy paid time off, B&A sponsored trainings and certifications, pet insurance benefits, commuter transit benefits and a free subscription to a virtual exercise platform (NEOU). B&A’s 401(k) plan is available to all employees and includes a company matching contribution.

B&A has launched several programs to focus on employee engagement, wellness, and assistance. These include:

• The B&A Cares program: 30/60/90-day wellness check ins, personal development, financial management, and stress management seminars, and more
• A formal mentorship program
• Job shadowing and cross training opportunities
• Brand Ambassador program
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) - Access to various support resources to include counseling, legal guidance, financial planning, and more
• Monthly teambuilding events
• B&A Annual Wellness Challenges: #StepWithB&A, #WalkDuringLunchWithB&A, #VolunteeringWithB&A, #ExerciseDuringLunchWithB&A, and more

At B&A, we place significant importance on improving the communities and lives of citizens across the nation through our involvement, technology expertise, and employees. B&A puts an emphasis on charitable efforts in the Northern Virginia area, including Capital Area Food Bank pantry drives, book donations, Hope for Henry Foundation events, and many more. In recognition of all these efforts, B&A has been named a Companies as Responsive Employers (CARE) award recipient by Northern Virginia Family Services and nominated by the Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce for Outstanding Corporate Citizenship Award.

EEO

B&A provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. B&A complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy covers conduct occurring at B&A’s offices, and other workplaces (including client sites) and all other locations where B&A is providing services, and to all work-related activities.

EEO is the Law

B&A participates in e-Verify. We provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee’s I-9 Form to confirm work authorization.