The Elevate Program is moving the University of Maryland Fearlessly Forward leading the transition from legacy mainframe student systems to Workday Student To achieve the programs goals the Graduate School is seeking a dynamic highly skilled and experienced professional to join our team as the Workday Functional Lead for the Workday Student Graduate School domain This is a full time permanent position in the Graduate School The Workday Functional Lead for the Graduate School is responsible for driving decisions related to design configuration and testing of business processes as well as providing policy recommendations and business requirements for the Workday configuration This includes graduate admissions and deferrals tuition remission fellowshipsawards graduate assistantships student records degree requirements policy waivers leaves of absence grievances and the typical graduate student life cycle as relevant to the enterprise student information system This position will be a part of the Workday Student implementation team but will retain formal reporting within the Graduate School As part of a broader cross functional implementation team the Functional Leads across units will collaborate and coordinate with key Elevate team members to meet program deadlines and deliverables overseen by Elevate Program governance They will also convey and represent the needs and requirements of their business unit This role reports to the Assistant Dean of the Graduate School This role works closely with other Student Functional Leads the Student Product Owner in the Division of Information Technology DIT and the Student Graduate School Workday Analyst DIT Following the Workday Student implementation the incumbent will serve as a member of the Graduate School advisory staff team and provide support to Graduate School staff and collaborators evaluate upgrades operationalize changes support configurations lead continuous process improvements collaborate with DIT and provide guidance as the Student Graduate School Workday expert This position is considered essential and may be required to work at the normal location or an alternative location during a major catastrophic event weather emergency or other operational emergencies to help maintain continuity of university services Responsibility Areas Workday ExpertiseLearn Workday Student processes amp functionality and gain expert level knowledge of the Workday Graduate Student domain Develop a deep understanding of UMDs Finance and HCM processes that relate to the Student system In particular understand the changes challenges and opportunities that the implementation of Workday Student will have in areas such as graduate student admissions records assistantships tuition remission degree requirements and related operationsPerform the duties within the below functions Design Understand and provide current state context to future state designs Campus Teams Facilitate requirements gathering from campus Change Impacts Change impact validation Decisions Drive functional decisions for functional area within the project team Technical Workstreams Participate in requirement drafting sessions for other workstreams Data Conversion Validate data for data conversion Testing Gather document and execute test scenarios Training Prepare training materials