Senior Project Manager

Appone; Great Falls (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Appone in Atlanta GA seeks a Senior Project Manager to develop and manage an integrated plan for resolving complex benefits-related issues involving Workday configuration, payroll data, and vendor systems. You will coordinate across DOAS, ERP teams, payroll and finance, and benefit administrators.

The role drives issues from identification through closure, establishing accountability and dependencies, and elevating risks as needed. Requires PMP eligibility and SDLC experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field from an accredited college or university and 3 years of recent relevant project management experience.
• Eligibility to sit for Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
• Six or more years of related experience in project management coordinating and supporting business processes.
• Experience with SDLC and formal project management tooling (Asana, MS Project, Jira).
• Certification as PMP or CAPM is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain a single authoritative backlog of benefits issues with ownership, dependencies, and closure criteria.
• Lead cross-functional teams to resolve individual benefits issues and keep focus on outcomes.
• Obtain next steps, accountable owners, and target completion dates; track commitments to completion.
• Document decisions, open questions, actions, and responsible individuals in a shared location.
• Develop and maintain an integrated stabilization schedule across multiple workstreams.
• Coordinate test planning, data, expected results, regression testing, and vendor validation.
• Manage change-control and release-readiness from nonproduction environments to production.

Skills

PM experience

Cross-functional coordination

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

Asana

MS Project

Jira

Job description

EOE Statement We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Category Information Technology

Description

Senior Project Manager

Location: Atlanta GA

We are 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).

Full-Time/Part-Time -unspecified-

This position is currently accepting applications.