Partner, Payroll Ops and Processing Projects

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Act as a payroll subject matter expert for key strategic initiatives.

• Collaborate with Payroll, HRIS, HR, IT, and business leaders to integrate payroll requirements, business rules, handoffs, downstream effects, and employee experience considerations.

• Align payroll requirements, analyze data and stakeholder feedback, evaluate operational impacts, and suggest scalable enhancements.

• Assess and enhance payroll processes, systems, controls, workflows, integrations, and reporting mechanisms.

• Convert payroll business needs into system requirements, configuration considerations, testing scenarios, and operational procedures.

• Manage project planning, timelines, milestones, issues, and risk escalation.

• Lead governance routines, workstream meetings, stakeholder updates, decision documentation, and status reporting.

• Create and refine payroll process documentation, standard operating procedures, test scripts, job aids, training materials, and control documentation.

• Supervise data readiness, mapping, validation, reconciliation, and quality assurance tasks.

• Define and implement payroll testing strategies, including UAT, regression testing, calculation validation, and implementation readiness.

• Spearhead change management and adoption activities for payroll process and system modifications.

• Track post-implementation results, support stabilization, identify root causes, and recommend corrective actions or enhancements.

⛳️ Requirements

• In-depth knowledge of payroll operations, payroll processing, payroll controls, HRIS dependencies, time and attendance, employee data, and related HR processes.

• Proven ability to lead strategic initiatives, process improvement projects, system enhancements, and cross-functional projects within a complex organization.

• Capability to convert payroll requirements into actionable business processes, system considerations, documentation, testing scenarios, and operational recommendations.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking abilities.

• Excellent communication, collaboration, and facilitation skills.

• Capacity to handle confidential payroll and employee data with integrity, discretion, and compliance awareness.

• Proficient in organizing work, managing competing priorities, tracking deliverables, and leading multiple initiatives.

• Experience in supporting process standardization, automation, governance, documentation, controls, reporting, or operational readiness activities.

• Ability to influence without direct authority and guide decision-making through analysis and recommendations.

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Information Systems, or a related field is required.

• At least 8 years of experience in payroll, HR operations, HRIS, or related business processes is required.

• Experience in leading payroll transformation, HRIS projects, payroll system enhancements, and time and attendance initiatives, or other cross-functional HR/payroll initiatives is preferred.

• Experience in a multi-state, multi-entity, high-volume payroll environment is preferred.

• Payroll certification or relevant professional certification is preferred.

• Employment eligibility verification is required through E-Verify.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical insurance

• Dental insurance

• Vision insurance

• Life insurance

• Disability insurance

• Healthcare FSA

• Dependent Care FSA

• Limited Healthcare FSA

• Transportation and Parking FSAs

• HSA

• Paid time off (minimum 20 days and up to 25 days per calendar year)

• 9 observed holidays

• Paid family leave

• Benefits eligibility from day one for qualifying employees

• Comprehensive benefits package