General Architect, Virginia

Title: Workday HCM Financial Consultant

Duration: ASAP - 2/1/2026 with option to extend

Shift Timings: M-F, 8 am to 5 pm

Location: Virginia Beach, VA 

Position: Onsite

Job Responsibilities:

Lead, participate and manage the Workday cutover planning and execution activities.

Collaborate with Program Teams, Technical teams, and implementer resources to build out a detailed project cutover schedule to include tasks for all areas (technical (reports, integration, security) and functional (HCM, Payroll, Benefits, Workforce and Recruiting) and OCM (Communications, Change Mgmt, Training).

Clearly communicating the cutover plan, progress, and any issues to relevant stakeholders (business, IT, and other teams).

Field questions and escalations regarding cutover activities and work with the cutover team to close open items.

Manage cutover tasks, risks, issues, and project timelines to assure progress towards cutover completion.

Work with the appropriate system owners, business and technical subject-matter-experts, and workstreams to assure cutover and system remediation processes, deliverables, and milestones are developed and completed.

Provide comprehensive reporting of cutover activities, challenges and risks. In coordination with project team develop risk mitigation approaches to ensure on time go live

Prepare and deliver metric reporting demonstrating progress against planned activities

Escalate items that would impact go live date

Lead and participate in the cutover planning, cutover plan review, capture of cutover activity timeframes/durations, mock cutover, and cutover execution activities.

Work alongside Testing team to ensure all cutover activities recorded

Plan and Communicate Workday HCM and FIN test strategy/plans, test cycles and test progress at each relevant stage

Solid understanding of Workday's logic and ability to think-out-side-the-box

Ensure cutover phase is properly planned and staffed

Coordinate with testing team on Direct defect tracking: reporting, documenting and resolving all test defects and appropriate resolution through each test phase – ensuring all documentation / decision logs, test outcomes and test results are captured and appropriately logged.

Provide daily coordination and support of all cutover related activities and Hold Testers and SIs accountable to the testing plan and expected outcomes.

Evaluate test results, schedules, resources, and risks for program reviews.

Monitor procedures and checklists to ensure that all areas of the testing processes are well defined and functioning

Monitor and report weekly on progress and key testing metrics and escalate potential issues or concern to the PMO

Required Skills:

2-3 years of experience in Workday HCM and/or FIN

Experience in cutover of workday modules, test plan creation, assistance, and execution.

A broad overview of Workday HCM and FIN modules, not necessarily an expert in any one or two modules, but a generalist

Strong understanding of business processes, break/fixes/bug identification and articulation, and basic testing methodology

Understanding of data migration and system integration

High functioning and collaborative

Ability to work with minimal direction and can adapt to variable change

At least 1 Workday implementation experience preferred

Experience with Application Lifecycle Management is a plus