Sand Cherry

Business Operations

• Lead discovery sessions, workshops, and interviews with stakeholders, process owners, and subject matter experts
• Observe and document current processes across Operations, Order to Cash, and Procure to Pay
• Develop detailed current-state swim lane process maps showing activities, ownership, handoffs, decision points, systems, and dependencies
• Document roles and responsibilities across processes
• Assess systems, data flows, reports, controls, and process handoffs
• Review existing process documentation, procedures, controls, reports, and supporting materials
• Identify manual activities, bottlenecks, unnecessary handoffs, redundancies, process complexity, gaps, risks, and control weaknesses
• Evaluate opportunities to simplify, standardize, streamline, or redesign processes
• Identify improvements for cross-functional coordination, process ownership, controls, data flow, and operational visibility
• Develop an inventory of process improvement opportunities
• Categorize opportunities into quick wins and longer-term initiatives
• Assess the business impact of recommended improvements
• Prioritize recommendations based on business value, risk, complexity, and implementation considerations
• Translate assessment findings into actionable recommendations for business and leadership stakeholders
• Develop a prioritized process improvement roadmap with recommended initiatives and sequencing
• Communicate the rationale, expected impact, dependencies, and considerations for proposed improvements

Business Process Consultant

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Build, maintain, and enhance detailed financial operating models to support client planning and decision-making
• Develop and analyze debt waterfalls, debt service ratios, and other debt-related financial models
• Perform financial forecasting, scenario modeling, sensitivity analysis, and long-term planning
• Evaluate financial performance, cash flow, debt obligations, and key financial metrics
• Develop assumptions and modeling scenarios based on client objectives and financial data
• Partner with client stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into comprehensive financial models
• Identify financial trends, risks, opportunities, and potential impacts across various scenarios
• Prepare presentations summarizing financial analysis, findings, and recommendations
• Present complex financial information to senior and executive-level stakeholders
• Ensure models are accurate, organized, scalable, and appropriately documented
• Support ad hoc financial analysis and strategic planning initiatives

Financial Modeling and Planning Analyst

General

• Establish, operationalize, and lead an enterprise PMO, including governance, operating model, methodologies, standards, tools, reporting, KPIs, and delivery processes
• Foster accountability, collaboration, operational excellence, and execution discipline
• Provide executive leadership across multiple enterprise transformation programs aligned with corporate strategy and measurable business outcomes
• Develop enterprise portfolio governance, including executive steering committees, project intake, prioritization, stage gates, decision rights, and operating rhythms
• Lead enterprise process engineering and business process optimization initiatives
• Drive cross-functional transformation initiatives spanning O2C, ERP implementation, finance, operations, customer service, procurement, supply chain, inventory management, asset management, and supporting business functions
• Develop and execute enterprise organizational change strategies, including executive communications, stakeholder engagement, organizational readiness, training, user adoption, and change reinforcement
• Establish executive dashboards, portfolio KPIs, financial reporting, and transformation health metrics
• Monitor budgets, schedules, scope, dependencies, enterprise risks, issues, and resource utilization while driving proactive mitigation
• Prepare executive presentations, Board materials, Steering Committee updates, and strategic communications
• Institutionalize PMO governance, methodologies, templates, standards, and best practices
• Develop and execute a structured transition plan with documentation, knowledge transfer, coaching, and operational readiness to enable client ownership of the PMO

Enterprise Transformation PMO Lead

Data Engineer

• Design, build, and maintain data pipelines for large volumes of network, operational, and performance data
• Integrate data from DataMiner and other operational or network-monitoring systems
• Develop scalable data models for operational analytics, network monitoring, reporting, and dashboards
• Build and maintain Power BI dashboards and reporting solutions
• Implement and configure DataMiner as a centralized monitoring and analytics platform
• Establish metrics, triggers, and alerting requirements
• Aggregate monitoring data from geographically distributed network sources
• Analyze high-volume network telemetry during weather events, outages, recovery events, and other network conditions
• Develop monitoring capabilities to determine when recovery mechanisms activate and whether services perform as expected
• Translate modeling assumptions and expected service behavior into measurable performance indicators
• Automate recurring performance reporting and post-event analysis
• Identify trends, anomalies, and service-performance issues and provide actionable recommendations
• Create reporting for technical teams and executive stakeholders
• Collaborate with network engineering, operations, analytics, and business teams
• Establish scalable data and analytics practices for growing telemetry and monitoring requirements

3D Artist

• Establish, define, and document motion design principles, animation standards, transitions, and interaction behaviors for a rebranded visual identity
• Develop motion guidelines for web, mobile applications, marketing assets, and digital products
• Create scalable motion frameworks for multiple teams and digital touchpoints
• Partner with Brand, Product, UX, and Marketing teams to integrate motion design into the broader brand ecosystem
• Refresh and modernize brand assets, templates, animations, and graphic elements
• Update motion-enabled templates for marketing campaigns, social media, presentations, digital advertising, and branded communications
• Concept, storyboard, design, and produce original motion graphics content
• Create animated videos, promotional content, explainers, product demonstrations, social media assets, and digital campaign materials
• Translate complex ideas into clear visual stories through motion and animation
• Manage projects from concept through final production and delivery
• Collaborate with Creative, Brand, Product Design, UX, Marketing, and Digital Experience teams
• Present concepts and creative recommendations to stakeholders
• Incorporate feedback while maintaining creative excellence and brand alignment
• Support initiatives through reusable motion assets and scalable design solutions

Digital Motion Graphics Animator

Product Manager

• Own and manage the full product lifecycle, including product strategy, roadmap development, planning, execution, and delivery
• Drive development and improvement of systems, tools, and processes supporting broadband initiatives
• Support planning and execution of high-speed internet and telecommunications infrastructure builds
• Evaluate initiatives based on financial viability and overall business value
• Develop and maintain product roadmaps, priorities, timelines, milestones, and deliverables
• Translate business needs and strategic objectives into product requirements and actionable plans
• Partner with cross-functional business, technical, operational, and leadership teams
• Identify risks, dependencies, process gaps, and improvement opportunities
• Establish structure and accountability to keep initiatives on schedule and aligned with business objectives
• Develop executive-level presentations, reporting, and product updates
• Communicate product strategy, progress, risks, and recommendations to senior and executive leadership
• Use data and business insights to support product decisions and prioritization
• Independently identify needs, solve problems, and drive execution

Broadband Product Manager

Consultant

• Support strategic growth initiatives related to MDU and residential broadband/fiber service offerings
• Analyze business, operational, and market data to identify trends, opportunities, risks, and actionable insights
• Provide strategic recommendations to support business growth and decision-making
• Develop data-driven analyses and translate findings into clear business recommendations
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to understand business needs and support strategic initiatives
• Create executive-level presentations, reporting, dashboards, and data visualizations
• Present findings and recommendations clearly to senior stakeholders and leadership
• Utilize Excel and other analytical tools to organize, analyze, and interpret business data
• Develop polished PowerPoint presentations communicating strategy, findings, and recommendations
• Support business cases, strategic planning, and consulting-related deliverables
• Leverage AI tools where appropriate to improve analysis, research, and efficiency

MDU Consultant

Project Manager

Company Profile  
  
At Sand Cherry Associates, we excel in the design and delivery of strategic customer-centric initiatives through digitally native, data-empowered solutions.  Our client’s confidence in us is centered on exceptionally skilled, high-energy talent working with the support of the full Sand Cherry team.  Finding the right match for this role is a critical aspect of continuing that success.   
 
Overview 
We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead and support an HR technology transformation initiative. This individual will be responsible for managing the implementation of Workday and coordinating the transition of HR processes and systems into a new HRIS environment. The ideal candidate is a proven project manager with experience leading HRIS implementations, particularly Workday, and the ability to manage complex, cross-functional initiatives involving HR, Payroll, IT, Finance, and other key stakeholders. This is a hands-on project management role requiring strong organizational skills, stakeholder management, communication, and the ability to drive projects from planning through successful implementation. This is a 6+ month remote role working mostly in MST and CST time zones and may require some light travel. All candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future visa sponsorship or transfers. We are unable to work with C2C arrangements for this opportunity.
 
Duties & Responsibilities

- Lead the end-to-end project management of the Workday HRIS implementation, including planning, execution, testing, deployment, and post-implementation activities.

- Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans, timelines, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables.

- Establish project governance, meeting cadence, status reporting, and escalation processes.

- Partner with HR, Payroll, IT, Finance, and business stakeholders to define requirements, priorities, and project objectives.

- Coordinate activities across internal teams, Workday implementation partners, vendors, and other project stakeholders.

- Manage project scope, schedule, budget, risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies.

- Facilitate project meetings and working sessions, ensuring clear action items, owners, and deadlines.

- Track project progress and provide regular updates to leadership and key stakeholders.

- Identify potential risks and roadblocks and develop mitigation and contingency plans.

- Support business process design and alignment with the capabilities of the Workday platform.

- Coordinate data migration, integrations, configuration, testing, and other implementation workstreams.

- Lead or coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT), including test planning, execution, issue tracking, and resolution.

- Support organizational readiness, communications, training, and change management activities associated with the new HRIS.

- Ensure appropriate documentation is developed and maintained throughout the project lifecycle.

- Coordinate cutover and go-live readiness activities and support post-go-live stabilization.

- Drive accountability across workstreams to ensure deliverables are completed on time and meet quality expectations.

- Identify opportunities to improve HR processes and maximize the value of the new HRIS environment.