Senior Workday Consultant

We are seeking an experienced Senior Consultant to lead business continuity planning, system cutover activities, operational readiness, and project delivery efforts for complex enterprise Workday transformation initiatives. This individual will serve as the bridge between business partners, technology teams, vendors, and executive leadership, ensuring organizational preparedness and successful implementation of major system changes.

The ideal candidate possesses a strong business analysis foundation, exceptional project management skills, expertise in cutover planning and execution, and advanced proficiency in Excel and/or Smartsheet. This role requires a strategic thinker who can translate business requirements into actionable plans while effectively managing risks, dependencies, business partner communications, and operational readiness.

• Develop and maintain comprehensive business continuity and operational readiness plans.
• Identify potential business disruptions and develop mitigation strategies.
• Conduct business impact assessments and risk analyses.
• Coordinate continuity planning across business, operational, and technology teams.
• Facilitate contingency planning, disaster recovery readiness, and fallback procedures.
• Establish continuity metrics and monitor organizational readiness throughout project lifecycles.

• Develop detailed cutover strategies and implementation roadmaps for large-scale system deployments.
• Lead cutover planning workshops with business and technical stakeholders.
• Define and manage cutover checklists, runbooks, command center activities, and transition plans.
• Coordinate deployment sequencing, dependency management, and resource assignments.
• Monitor readiness criteria and execute go/no-go decision processes.
• Lead hypercare planning and post-implementation stabilization activities.
• Identify and manage implementation risks and escalation issues during deployment events.

• Elicit, document, and validate business requirements.
• Analyze current-state and future-state business processes.
• Ensure business needs are translated into actionable implementation plans.

• Build trusted relationships across executive, operational, and technical teams.
• Communicate project status, risks, decisions, and key milestones.
• Manage conflicting priorities and drive alignment among business partners.
• Prepare executive presentations and decision-support materials.
• Facilitate issue resolution across cross-functional teams.

• Develop advanced project tracking and reporting solutions using Excel and/or Smartsheet.
• Create executive dashboards, KPI reporting, resource plans, and risk logs.
• Analyze project performance data and provide actionable recommendations.
• Maintain project documentation repositories and governance artifacts.

• Experience supporting ERP, HRIS, Financial, or Payroll system implementations.
• Experience with Workday, SAP, Oracle, or other enterprise platforms.
• Consulting experience within large organizations.
• Experience supporting organizational transformation initiatives.

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, Project Management, Finance, Operations, or a related field.
• Equivalent combination of education and professional experience may be considered.

• 8+ years of project management, consulting, business analysis, or program delivery experience.
• 5+ years leading large-scale business transformation or enterprise system implementation projects.
• Demonstrated experience managing system cutovers and production deployments.
• Experience developing and executing business continuity or operational readiness plans.
• Experience facilitating executive-level governance and stakeholder engagement.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams in complex environments.

• Requirements gathering and validation
• Process analysis and process improvement
• Gap analysis
• Current-state and future-state assessments
• Change impact assessments

• Project planning and scheduling
• Risk and issue management
• Dependency tracking
• Executive reporting

• Advanced Excel Proficiency
• Complex formulas and functions
• Pivot tables and pivot charts
• Dashboard development
• Scenario planning
• Reporting automation
• Smartsheet Expertise
• Smartsheet project plans
• Dashboards
• Risk and issue tracking
• Business Productivity Tools
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Microsoft Project
• Visio
• PowerPoint
• Teams
• SharePoint
• Collaboration and reporting platforms

• Leadership
• Leads complex initiatives with minimal oversight.
• Influences decision-making across all organizational levels.
• Demonstrates executive presence and strategic thinking.
• Analytical Thinking
• Identifies risks, dependencies, and business impacts.
• Uses data-driven decision-making approaches.
• Quickly evaluates alternatives and develops recommendations.
• Communication
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong facilitation and presentation abilities.
• Ability to communicate effectively with executives, business users, and technical teams.
• Organization & Execution
• Exceptional planning and coordination skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Strong attention to detail while maintaining focus on strategic objectives.