Description

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree; a minimum of 5+ years of experience providing business analysis, technology delivery, and Senior Project Manager support for enterprise HCM or payroll platform initiatives.
• Experience supporting complex, cross-functional Payroll or HCM work streams involving payroll, HR, finance, operations, technology teams, vendors, implementation partners, and senior stakeholders.
• Strong planning, organization, facilitation, analytical, problem-solving, and time management skills.
• Ability to work with ACS stakeholders to define Payroll and HCM solutions, delivery approaches, project decisions, and operational readiness plans.
• Ability to interpret vendor feedback and provide clear recommendations to ACS stakeholders and leadership.
• Experience preparing and presenting project reports, dashboards, status updates, decision materials, risk summaries, and Payroll implementation readiness updates.
• Strong understanding of project management disciplines, including scope, schedule, budget, risk, issue, escalation protocols, dependency, resource, change, benefits, and stakeholder management.
• Experience supporting Agile or other delivery methodologies in enterprise platforms, ERP, HRIS, payroll, workforce management, or HCM environments.
• Experience supporting Workday and UKG Payroll initiatives, including project planning, enhancement delivery, requirements definition, configuration coordination, payroll workflow and business process alignment, integration coordination, testing, data validation, security and access considerations, reporting, readiness, training support, adoption planning, issue resolution, and post-implementation stabilization.
• Working knowledge of payroll operations and related HCM business processes such as time and attendance, absence management, benefits, workforce scheduling, reporting, employee self-service, and payroll compliance requirements.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex payroll and HCM platform concepts, risks, tradeoffs, and implementation impacts to stakeholders and ACS leadership.
• Excellent documentation skills and attention to detail.
• Competency in Microsoft applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and related collaboration tools.
• Hands-on experience using Workday, UKG, and related enterprise tools to support Payroll work stream delivery, project reporting, issue tracking, stakeholder communications, implementation coordination, testing coordination, cutover planning, and decision support; experience with Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Jira, DevOps, or equivalent tools preferred.
• PMP, CAPM, SAFe, Agile, Scrum, Prosci, ITIL, Workday, UKG, HRIS, payroll, or similar certification preferred

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree