Senior Specialist - Package Implementation

Role name Senior Finance HR global cutover lead

Exp range 8 plus years experience

location Pan India

usually its from 1230 830 PM IST

Finance HR global cutover lead

a workday global cutover lead manages the final transition from legacy systems to the new workday platform

Roles and responsibilities

develop and own the master cutover plan runbook reporting dashboard covering all golive events including entry and exit criteria task

sequencing and dependencies

develops a market cutover planning template in alignment with Accenture and manages alignment of market cutover plans to the global

master cutover plan

overall global cutover coordination plans communicates tracks and manages all global cutover activities via reporting dashboard

global crossfunctional coordination connects technical teams integrations security reports with functional teams HR payroll

global cross finance workstreams coordination connects all workstems RTR STP LTC FDM data conversion integrations security

testing infrastructure and training

global vendor management ensure global vendor resource availability and alignment with cutover planning manages communication

with all vendors during the cutover phase

manages market cutover leads approach and progress works closely with the market cutover leads for a standarised global

approach ensure they stay on track through an agreed meeting cadence

run the global cutover war room remotely including issue triage escalation paths status cadence and gonogo decision support for executive

leadership

global cutover communication in alignment with global change and communication lead communicates cutover planning status to market

cutover leads global project team business stakeholders and global thirdparty vendors

risk management escalates global impediments or critical local impediments to the customer global program leadership team

global resource management allocates the right resources for the cutover window ensures resources are prepared for golive activities

transition to hypercare ensure handover to hypercare team of open cutover issues defects unresolved risks

manages legacy systems decommissioning coordinates with market cutover leads on of retirement of legacy systems

Required qualifications must have

8 plus years of erp program experience with at least three fulllifecycle cutovers in a lead role

direct experience leading cutover from legacy erp platforms eg sap to workday

handson experience with fullsuite workday deployments financials and hcm at minimum

demonstrated success managing multiple golives simultaneously

demonstrated success at building stakeholder relationships while working remotely

proven ability to build and execute detailed runbooks with hundreds of sequenced tasks across multiple teams and

vendors

experience running a golive command center including issue management and executive gonogo facilitation

strong command of data conversion integration cutover and legacy decommissioning practices

availability to start immediately and to work through the december 2026 and january 2027 golive windows including holidays as

needed

cutover or program experience on an erp implementation that included a merger acquisition or divestiture including dayone

readiness planning and multientity consolidation

workday launchdeployment methodology familiarity or partnerside delivery experience