Andrea Knieps

About Andrea Knieps

HRIT leader with deep experience managing large-scale software and business transformation implementations for over 25 years with a sole focus on driving Workday-enabled business transformations since 2011. 6 years Workday healthcare experience with different hospital systems. Passionate about leveraging people, processes, and technologies to solve business problems in alignment with business goals. Fiercely committed to building long-term beneficial client relationships.Excels at providing Program Management office functions, designing and implementing Human Resources and Payroll processes and systems, business process analysis, systems security analysis and design, current state analysis, gap/fit design, testing, training, and system configuration.Workday Certifications• Engagement Manager - Large Enterprise• Delivery Assurance Manager - Large Enterprise• Workday Recruiting

Experience

1. Workday Project Director

   Seattle Children's

   Feb 2023 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Project Scope includes two phases, HCM and Payroll first followed by Fin, SCM and Grants: HCM (Absence, Benefits, Compensation, Advanced Comp, Core HR, On-boarding, US Payroll, Performance and Goals, Recruiting, Talent) FIN (Banking and Settlement, Budgets, Assets, Customer Accounts, Contracts, Expenses, Financial Accounting, Grants, Planning, Prism, Projects) SCM (Procurement, Inventory, Strategic Sourcing, Supplier Accounts)~150 Integrations, 100 Data Conversion FilesResponsibilities include:• Partner with Executive management, Project leadership, and functional and technical teams to ensure the project meets goals and objectives.• Facilitate timely critical issue resolution that supports the transformation goals of the project.• Establish and facilitate project governance and model and reinforce guiding principles.• Hold the systems integrator accountable to their contractual responsibilities, resource requirements, scope, budget, and SLAs.• Drive development of the project requirements and scope in adherence with transformational goals.• Communicate project status, key issues, and risks to the senior leadership, identifying issues requiring resolution at the senior leadership level.• Co-manage the vendor activities, based on contracted performance requirements, and escalate issues to the senior leadership, as necessary. • Develop, maintain, and enhance good working relationships with external and internal constituents.• Provide oversight and input to the vendor project plan.• Manage project to the plan and monitor project status, issues, and milestones.

Education

• Scripps College

  BA, English Literature

  1986 — 1991

Skills

• Personnel Management
• Strategy
• Management
• Project Delivery
• Software Design
• Project Implementation
• Workday
• Team Management
• Requirements Gathering
• Training
• Software Documentation
• Integration
• Design Specifications
• Human Resources
• Sap
• Erp
• Project Management
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act
• Hcm Processes & Forms
• Solution Implementation
• Software Implementation
• Software Configuration Management
• Business Process Improvement
• Shared Services
• Vendor Management
• Hris
• Functional Specifications
• Hrit
• Business Analysis
• Software Training
• Client Service
• Analysis
• Manager Self-Service
• Software Project Management
• Peoplesoft
• Performance Management
• Financial Services
• Crm
• User Acceptance Testing
• Pmo