• Sr. HR Workday Project Manager Business Analyst (Remote)

    Raymond James Financial, Inc.Saint Petersburg, FL 33747

    Job #2661184897

  • Description

    Job Summary:

    As a PM/BA (Project Manager/Business Analyst) in the HR Transformation team, you will work with your stakeholders to understand issues they would like resolved or processes they want improved with the use of technology. This role will lead, plan and manage business transformation programs, including the overall change strategy, training and adoption. You will lead a team to define a functional design, work with developers on a technical design, test the developed solution, oversee user acceptance testing, and ensure successful deployment of the solution.

    Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

    Portfolio Management

    • Initiate and lead the governance and delivery of a program or group of significant projects within a function.

    • Acts as the organization's authority and established expert to develop solutions based on an understanding of the business environment and objectives. Applies a change mindset to the planning, execution and monitoring of business activities.

    Project Management

    • Lead the planning and delivery of complex wide-ranging information gathering, analysis, and stakeholder consultation activities and specify, negotiate, and agree on program and project deliverables, ensuring integration across the client function and HR as a whole.

    • Builds the structure of the project team and defines roles and responsibilities to enable the achievement of project objectives and the effective operation of key business processes.

    • With client groups and senior HR leadership, lead a governance structure that ensures new requests are approved, prioritized, and budgeted.

    • Ensure that risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints are managed appropriately. Where risks or issues threaten delivery of the project, develop and agree recovery plans.

    Team Management

    • Set direction for large project and program teams; define the overall vision and communicate the outcomes needed along with appropriate guidance to achieve outcome.

    • Build the capability of the team through training, coaching, mentoring and motivate people to achieve the organization's business goals.

    • Manage work estimation and planning of activities including team resourcing.

    Stakeholder Management

    • Develop and implement stakeholder engagement strategies and plans to ensure that each stakeholder has an appropriate share of voice and that their needs and concerns are identified and met.

    • Provide authoritative specialist advice to business leaders to enable the implementation of policy, projects, and change initiatives.

    • Drive a culture of innovation by creating multi-stakeholder solutions that boost creativity, innovation, and collaboration across business units.

    Business Analysis

    • Lead the development and implementation of a strategy to ensure that intended business benefits are realized across a program.

    • Interpret the business need and identify solution recommendations to business problems. Review existing operations and implement innovation processes to generate new ideas and ensure continuous improvements are delivered.

    • Work with stakeholders, IT and procurement to evaluate vendor solutions on their ability to solve the defined problem.

    Qualifications

    Skills/ Competencies:

    • Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments.

    • Manages complexity with high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.

    • Confidently makes good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward and deals constructively with resistance.

    • Consistently drives results. Takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.

    • Persuades using compelling arguments to gain the support and commitment of others achieving a good balance between defending own position and adapting to others' needs.

    • Strategic mindset developing longer-term strategies based on the organization's needs, capabilities and emerging trends in the market.

    • Positive individual with strong communication and listening skills with the ability to convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences; probes beneath the surface to gain richer insight on other's views.

    • Manages ambiguity and operates effectively, even when things are not certain, or the way forward is not clear.

    • Situationally adaptable shifting approach real time to match the changing demands of different situations.

    • Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.

    • Demonstrates good judgement and discretion when dealing with highly sensitive data.

    Educational/Previous Experience Requirements:

    • Bachelor's Degree with 6 to 10 years in HR Product Management / HR Business Analyst work

    • Management of teams (preferred 2 years or more)

    • Workday experience preferred.

    Licenses/Certifications:

    • None required.

    Job: Human Resources

    Primary Location: US-FL-St. Petersburg-Saint Petersburg

    Other Locations: US-RM-Remote-Remote

    Organization HR Product Management

    Schedule Full-time

    Job Shift Day Job

    Travel No

    Req ID: 2400537