Workday Financials Data Conversion

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The Workday Financials Data Conversion Lead will lead the Financials data conversion workstream for a state and local government ERP modernization, supporting the migration from PeopleSoft Financials to Workday. This role serves as the primary client point of contact for Financials data conversion and is accountable for the workstream's strategy, scope, schedule, quality, risks, and deliverables. The Lead will direct the work of data conversion developers while remaining hands-on in data analysis, mapping, extraction, transformation, validation, reconciliation, and issue resolution.

What You Will Do

Workstream leadership

• Own the end-to-end Financials data conversion workstream, including planning, scope, sequencing, estimates, milestones, dependencies, quality standards, and delivery.
• Lead and coordinate the work of data conversion developers, providing technical direction, reviewing deliverables, resolving blockers, and ensuring consistent methods and documentation.
• Serve as the primary Financials data conversion point of contact for the client, system integrator, functional leads, project management, and other technical workstreams.
• Provide clear status updates and promptly identify, communicate, and escalate risks, issues, decisions, and cross-workstream dependencies.

Conversion strategy and requirements

• Lead discovery and requirements sessions with system owners, functional area leads, and business stakeholders to define conversion scope, historical data requirements, priorities, reconciliation criteria, and acceptance standards.
• Analyze PeopleSoft Financials data structures, schemas, tables, configurations, and business rules and translate them into a practical PeopleSoft-to-Workday conversion approach.
• Analyze, recommend and assist with the data cleansing activities and ensure data completeness to prepare for the Data conversion to Workday.