Workday Finance – Senior Project Manager

Company:  Tencent Americas
Location: Palo Alto
Closing Date: 23/10/2024
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
Job Requirements / Description

Responsibilities:

Tencent Overseas IT has the mission to empower Tencent’s rapid global growth with future ready, global IT platforms, applications, and services. We are chartered to lead the Overseas IT strategy, architecture, roadmap, and execution. Satisfying our internal/external customers and becoming a world class global IT team are our top aspirations.


Our IT Enterprise Applications is currently seeking a passionate Workday financial expert to lead the implementation and deployment of our Workday Financial platform to empower overseas business growth and enhance employee experience.

  • Act as the project manager leading the global Workday Financials implementation project
  • Facilitate the definition of the project scope, requirements, and deliverables
  • Develop, control, and communicate the project plan, timeline, and milestones
  • Define and document project tasks, issues, risks
  • Monitor milestones and deliverables to identify issues early, develop workarounds and communicates/ escalates to leadership as applicable
  • Track and report project deliverables to the project team and stakeholders, through status reports and meetings
  • Develop procedures, manuals, and other documentation for the systems developed based on the requirements gathered
  • Develop transition plan(s) and execute those plans to ensure orderly transition to operations
  • Administer the scrum board – cards are up to date, backlog is robust, goals are clear
  • Proactively eliminate blockers and manage roadblocks
  • Participate in the change management and go live support processes

Requirements:

  • Self-motivated, articulate, passionate to deliver the best result and achieve the highest customer satisfaction
  • Love satisfying customers with a state of art cloud solutions, realizing ideas, building services, and unlocking the potential of new technology
  • Collaborative, independent, insistent, flexible, and open minded. And you see no conflict in any of these things
  • Knowledgeable, resourceful and show initiative. You always keep the customer's objectives in mind
  • Positive by nature, a great team player, and both dependable and autonomous
  • Customer oriented and could work at a very fast pace

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of technical project management experience (Workday Financial Implementation is preferred)
  • Experience managing large scale Workday Financial engagements or complex IT engagements is preferred
  • Proficient in Workday Financial modules (e.g. Financial Management, Banking & Settlement, Projects, Expenses, Supplier Accounts, Procurement)
  • Proficient in all phases of the Application Development Lifecycle
  • PMI or Scrum Alliance (or similar) certifications in Program Manager, Project Manager, or Scrum Master competencies are preferred
  • Deep understanding of agile methodologies, process and change management tools and techniques
  • Ability to manage multiple projects, tasks while overseeing many different aspects of the projects
  • Excellent leadership skills
  • Strong communication (oral and written) and interpersonal skills required to interact with colleagues and stakeholders
  • Ability to work effectively with others who are in remote locations and varying time zones
  • Fast Learner and ability to adapt quickly to change
  • Work collaboratively in a fast-pace cross-functional team
  • Experience working with Agile Project Management tools such as Jira
  • Experience working with Documents Sharing tools such as Confluence
  • Bilingual (English, Chinese) preferred



The base pay range for this position in the state(s) above is $136,620 to $249,970 per year. Actual pay is based on market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A sign on payment, relocation package, and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, as well as other medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the specific position offered.

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