Senior Project Manager

VGroup Inc; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

V Group Inc. seeks a Senior Project Manager to lead complex benefits-related issues within DOAS. You will coordinate Workday configuration, payroll data, and third-party integrations, driving root-cause analysis and production-ready solutions.

Local presence in Atlanta is required for occasional office visits. The role requires strong stakeholder management, ERP program experience, and proficiency with SDLC tools such as Asana, MS Project, and Jira.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required with progression in responsibility.
• PMP or CAPM certification or eligibility preferred.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and coordinating ERP/Workday integrations.
• Knowledge of SDLC methodologies and project-management tools.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain a single backlog of benefits issues with clear ownership and dates.
• Lead cross-functional teams to resolve benefits issues and ensure timely resolutions.
• Coordinate test planning, data, and vendor validation across Workday configurations and integrations.
• Provide executive reporting on issue aging, financial exposure, and resolution trends.

Skills

PM leadership

Stakeholder management

SDLC experience

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

PMP or CAPM certification/eligibility

Tools

Asana

MS Project

Jira

Workday

Job description

End Client

State of Georgia

Job Title

Senior Project Manager

Duration

8+ Months

Location

Atlanta, GA 30334

Position Type

Contract

Hours Per Week

40

Interview Type

Either Web Cam or In Person

Ceipal ID

SGA_PM760_KV

Job Code

811760

Department

Dept. of Administrative Services (DOAS)

Scope of Project

Candidate must be local to Atlanta and able to come to the office on occasion. The Project Manager will lead the stabilization and resolution of production issues affecting Workday benefits, payroll deductions, retirement contributions, eligibility, and data exchanges with third-party benefit providers. The Dept. of Administrative Services (DOAS) is seeking a Senior Project Manager will develop and manage an integrated plan for resolving complex benefits-related issues involving Workday configuration, employee and payroll data, inbound and outbound integrations, transaction processing, vendor systems, and business procedures. The Project Manager will coordinate work across DOAS, statewide ERP teams, functional and technical resources, payroll and finance teams, business analysts, and third-party benefit administrators. The position will drive issues from identification and prioritization through root-cause analysis, corrective action, testing, production deployment, reconciliation, employee remediation, and verified closure. The Project Manager must be able to establish accountability across organizations, identify dependencies, obtain decisions, and elevate risks that could affect employee benefits, payroll deductions, contributions, vendor funding, or regulatory obligations.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain a single authoritative backlog of benefits issues, including business impact, severity, affected population, integration, incident or change number, accountable owner, dependencies, target date, and closure criteria.
• Lead cross-functional teams assigned to resolve individual benefits issues. Keep each team focused on the defined issue, desired outcome, and work required for resolution.
• Obtain specific next steps, accountable owners, and target completion dates from assigned team members. Track each commitment through completion, follow up on missed dates, address obstacles, and elevate delays when necessary.
• Maintain meeting notes in a shared location where participants can clearly see what was discussed and agreed upon. Document decisions, open questions, assigned actions, responsible individuals, and completion dates.
• Develop and maintain an integrated stabilization schedule across functional, technical, payroll, finance, and vendor workstreams.
• Establish clear roles and responsibilities and secure accountable owners for all activities.
• Lead structured issue-triage, working, decision, and executive-status meetings.
• Coordinate investigation of source data, Workday configuration, integration logic, vendor processing, transaction timing, and business-process causes.
• Manage dependencies among related integrations and prevent separate teams from implementing conflicting corrections.
• Coordinate test planning, test data, expected results, regression testing, vendor validation, and business acceptance.
• Manage change-control and release-readiness activities from nonproduction environments through production deployment.
• Confirm that corrected integrations reconcile to Workday payroll and benefits results and that affected employees and financial transactions have been addressed.
• Track risks, decisions, overdue actions, resource constraints, and unresolved ownership; elevate promptly when commitments are not met.
• Provide concise executive reporting on issue aging, affected populations, financial exposure, testing progress, blocked decisions, and resolution trends.

Minimum Entry Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field from an accredited college or university AND three years of recent relevant project management experience, with a progression in responsibility AND eligibility to sit for Project management Professional (PMP) certification.

Preferred qualifications

• Prior experience implementing an ERP system or program, particularly human capital management administration
• Prior experience implementing business processes in a government organization
• Six or more years of related experience in project management coordinating and supporting business processes.
• Experience with structured development methodology SDLC
• Experience defining and implementing program/project management using tools and expertise in the practical adoption of SDLC methodologies using project management tools (Asana, MS Project, Jira).
• Certification as Professional Project Manager (PMP) or Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM).
• The candidate must be local to Atlanta and be able to come to the office on occasion.
• Recent and verified project management experience of large scale projects 3 years
• Prior experience implementing an ERP systgem or program, particularly human capital administration 2 years
• Related and verified experience in project management coordinating and supporting business processes 6 years
• Certification as Professional Project Manager (PMP) or Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) 3 years
• Prior experience implementing an ERP system or program, particularly human capital management administration
• Prior experience implementing business processes in a government organization
• Experience with structured development methodology SDLC
• Experience with project management tools including Asana, MS Project, and Jira
• Workday benefits, payroll deductions, retirement contributions, eligibility, and integrations experience
• Experience coordinating functional, technical, payroll, finance, and vendor workstreams
• Candidate must be local to Atlanta and able to come to the office on occasion

Required/Preferred Skills

• Required/Preferred Skills:
• Recent and verified project management experience of large scale projects 3 years
• Prior experience implementing an ERP systgem or program, particularly human capital administration 2 years
• Related and verified experience in project management coordinating and supporting business processes 6 years
• Certification as Professional Project Manager (PMP) or Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) 3 years
• Prior experience implementing an ERP system or program, particularly human capital management administration
• Prior experience implementing business processes in a government organization
• Experience with structured development methodology SDLC
• Experience with project management tools including Asana, MS Project, and Jira
• Workday benefits, payroll deductions, retirement contributions, eligibility, and integrations experience
• Experience coordinating functional, technical, payroll, finance, and vendor workstreams
• Candidate must be local to Atlanta and able to come to the office on occasion

V Group Inc. is a NJ-based IT Services and Products Company with its business strategically categorized in various Business Units including Public Sector, Enterprise
Solutions, Professional Services, Ecommerce, Projects, and Products. Within
Public Sector business unit, we cater IT Professional Services to Federal,
State and Local. We have multiple awards/ contracts with 30+ states, including
but not limited to NY, CA, FL, GA, MD, MI, NC, OH, OR, CO, CT, TN, PA, TX, VA,
NM, VT, and WA.

Website: https://www.vgroupinc.com/publicsector

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