DOAS Senior Project Manager

Short Description:

The Project Manager will lead the

stabilization and resolution of production issues affecting Workday benefits,

payroll deductions, retirement contributions, eligibility, and data exchanges

with third-party benefit providers.

Complete Description:

General Description

The Dept. of Administrative Services (DOAS) is seeking a Senior Project Manager will develop and manage an

integrated plan for resolving complex benefits-related issues involving Workday

configuration, employee and payroll data, inbound and outbound integrations,

transaction processing, vendor systems, and business procedures. The Project

Manager will coordinate work across DOAS, statewide ERP teams, functional and

technical resources, payroll and finance teams, business analysts, and

third-party benefit administrators.

The position will drive issues from identification and

prioritization through root-cause analysis, corrective action, testing,

production deployment, reconciliation, employee remediation, and verified

closure. The Project Manager must be able to establish accountability across

organizations, identify dependencies, obtain decisions, and escalate risks that

could affect employee benefits, payroll deductions, contributions, vendor

funding, or regulatory obligations.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain a

single authoritative backlog of benefits issues, including business

impact, severity, affected population, integration, incident or change

number, accountable owner, dependencies, target date, and closure

criteria.

• Lead cross-functional

teams assigned to resolve individual benefits issues. Keep each team

focused on the defined issue, desired outcome, and work required for

resolution.

• Obtain specific next

steps, accountable owners, and target completion dates from assigned team

members. Track each commitment through completion, follow up on missed

dates, address obstacles, and escalate delays when necessary.

• Maintain meeting notes

in a shared location where participants can clearly see what was discussed

and agreed upon. Document decisions, open questions, assigned actions,

responsible individuals, and completion dates.

• Develop and maintain an

integrated stabilization schedule across functional, technical, payroll,

finance, and vendor workstreams.

• Establish clear roles

and responsibilities and secure accountable owners for all activities.

• Lead structured

issue-triage, working, decision, and executive-status meetings.

• Coordinate investigation

of source data, Workday configuration, integration logic, vendor

processing, transaction timing, and business-process causes.

• Manage dependencies

among related integrations and prevent separate teams from implementing

conflicting corrections.

• Coordinate test

planning, test data, expected results, regression testing, vendor

validation, and business acceptance.

• Manage change-control

and release-readiness activities from nonproduction environments through

production deployment.

• Confirm that corrected

integrations reconcile to Workday payroll and benefits results and that

affected employees and financial transactions have been addressed.

• Track risks, decisions,

overdue actions, resource constraints, and unresolved ownership; escalate

promptly when commitments are not met.

• Provide concise

executive reporting on issue aging, affected populations, financial

exposure, testing progress, blocked decisions, and resolution trends.

MINIMUM ENTRY QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor’s degree in a

related field from an accredited college or university AND three years of

recent relevant project management experience, with a progression in

responsibility AND eligibility to sit for Project management Professional

(PMP) certification.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Prior experience

implementing an ERP system or program, particularly human capital

management administration

• Prior experience

implementing business processes in a government organization

• Six or more years of

related experience in project management coordinating and supporting

business processes.

• Experience with

structured development methodology SDLC

• Experience defining and

implementing program/project management using tools and expertise in the

practical adoption of SDLC methodologies using project management tools

(Asana, MS Project, Jira).

• Certification as

Professional Project Manager (PMP) or Certified Associate in Project

Management (CAPM).

The candidate must be local to Atlanta and be able to come to the office

on occasion.

Skills:

SkillRequired / DesiredAmountof ExperienceExpertise RatingMoveRecent and verified project management experience of large scale projectsRequired3YearsPrior experience implementing an ERP systgem or program, particularly human capital administration.Required2YearsRelated and verified experience in project management coordinating and supporting business processes.Required6YearsCertification as Professional Project Manager (PMP) or Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)Required3Years

Questions:

Question 1

Absences greater than two weeks MUST be approved by CAI management in advance, and contact information must be provided to CAI so that the resource can be reached during his or her absence. The Client has the right to dismiss the resource if he or she does not return to work by the agreed upon date. Do you agree to this requirement?

Question 2

What is your candidate's email address?

Question 3

If selected for engagement, your candidate's hourly Pay Rate must be at least ***? Your candidate can be paid more; however, the hourly SRP Rate cannot exceed ***? Do you agree to these requirements?

Question 4

The maximum mark-up for this engagement’s SRP rate is ***%. To be competitive on pricing, a mark-up below the 25% threshold is suggested. Do you agree to propose a mark-up at or below 25%?

Question 5

This assignment is contingent upon customer renewal and availability of adequate funding. Do you agree to this requirement?

Question 6

If selected for engagement, your candidate will be expected to start no later than 2 weeks (10 business days) after the client's selection date? Do you agree to this requirement?

Question 7

Your candidate must be local to metro Atlanta, Georgia. Do you accept this requirement?

Agency Interview Type:

Either Web Cam or In Person

Work Arrangement:

Hybrid

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