Overview
This is a temporary contract role expected to last approximately 3–5 months. The position supports the implementation, testing, cutover, go-live, and initial stabilization of a new payroll provider across a complex U.S. and international payroll environment.
The selected provider will integrate with the organization’s platform, so this role focuses on payroll operations workstream support—data validation, testing support, and coordination of integration efforts with internal and vendor teams.
Responsibilities
- Support the payroll implementation project plan, including workstream tracking, milestone management, dependency tracking, and maintenance of issue/risk logs and status updates.
- Coordinate across Payroll, HR, Finance, Engineering/Product, the selected payroll provider, and any implementation partners to keep workstreams on track.
- Support requirements validation, payroll process documentation, system readiness activities, and operational handoff planning.
- Assist with payroll data migration, including mapping, cleansing, validation, and reconciliation.
- Support validation of payroll configurations, including earnings and deduction codes, tax setup, payroll calendars, worker setup, and payroll processing rules.
- Coordinate with Engineering/Product and vendor technical teams on the integration between the organization’s platform and the payroll provider.
- Validate key data flows between the organization’s platform and the payroll provider, including:
- Worker records
- Payroll inputs
- Payroll results
- Tax/deduction data
- Payment status
- Reporting outputs
- Support user acceptance testing (UAT), integration testing, and parallel payroll testing.
- Investigate discrepancies identified during testing, document root causes, and track issues through resolution.
- Support cutover planning, go-live readiness, payroll calendar alignment, and post-implementation stabilization.
- Develop process documentation, testing materials, cutover checklists, job aids, and knowledge transfer materials for ongoing payroll operations.
- Provide hands-on support during hypercare for the first payroll cycles after go-live.
Requirements
- 5–8+ years of experience in payroll operations, payroll systems, payroll implementation, or payroll implementation support.
- Hands-on involvement in at least one complex payroll system or payroll provider implementation.
- Strong understanding of complex payroll environments, including U.S. multi-state payroll.
- Experience with high-volume hourly payroll, variable pay, frequent worker changes, payroll cutoffs, exceptions, and reconciliation.
- Experience supporting data validation, payroll reconciliation, parallel payroll testing, and issue resolution.
- Ability to coordinate cross-functional workstreams across payroll, HR, finance, engineering/product, vendors, and implementation partners.
- Comfort working with technical teams on integrations, data flows, field mapping, testing, and issue tracking.
- Strong Excel skills, including the ability to analyze large datasets and identify discrepancies.
- Strong communication, documentation, and project coordination skills.
- Availability for a 3–5 month contract.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting payroll implementations across multiple countries or multiple payroll providers.
- Experience with U.S. and international payroll implementations, ideally including Canada, the UK, and EU countries.
- Experience supporting payroll integrations with HCM/HRIS, time and attendance, benefits, finance, general ledger, or other operational systems.
- Experience working with API-based integrations, vendor technical teams, sandbox testing, integration test scripts, and system-to-system reconciliation.
- Experience with complex hourly, contingent workforce, staffing, EOR, or payrolling environments.
- Experience working with third-party implementation partners in a complex enterprise or multi-entity environment.
- CPP, FPC, PMP, or similar certification is helpful but not required.
Compensation & Benefits
- Not specified in the job description.
Location
- Not specified in the job description.