Overview
The Payroll Project Manager will oversee the planning and execution of various payroll projects within a growing global technology company. This hybrid role will involve collaboration with internal teams and external partners to ensure projects are delivered on time while managing risks and maintaining oversight of key deliverables. The successful candidate will play a crucial role during a transformative phase for the organization by leading initiatives that drive payroll system enhancements.
Responsibilities
- Lead and coordinate multiple payroll projects from planning through to delivery.
- Develop and maintain detailed project plans, timelines, milestones and dependencies.
- Drive actions and ensure key deliverables remain on track against agreed deadlines.
- Coordinate stakeholders across Payroll, Finance, Technology and external partners.
- Own project governance and maintain clear oversight of risks, issues, actions and dependencies.
- Support payroll data validation, testing, reconciliation and readiness ahead of go-live.
- Manage key data flows and dependencies across payroll and finance systems.
- Proactively identify and resolve risks, issues, blockers and delivery challenges.
Requirements
- Strong project management experience with proven delivery across payroll-related projects.
- Experience delivering payroll implementations across multiple countries or jurisdictions.
- Proven experience taking payroll projects through testing, reconciliation, parallel runs and go-live.
- Good understanding of payroll processes, systems and data.
- Experience managing multiple projects or workstreams concurrently.
- Strong planning skills with experience managing milestones, dependencies, risks, issues and actions.
- Experience across payroll data, integrations, testing and reconciliation.
- Familiarity with Workday, CloudPay and/or NetSuite is advantageous.