Payroll Systems Delivery Manager

People Development

Develop a strong, trusting, and reliable team.
Understand team members career aspirations and provide assignments to develop skills and/or close gaps.
Constructively address issues and provide tangible and appropriate feedback.
Apply a proactive and collaborative management style in order to increase employee engagement and minimize turnover.
Monitor training and licensing requirements ensuring staff is re-trained/licensed prior to expiration.
Coverage coordination for staff work and time-off schedules.

Responsibilities

• Develop short-term Payroll Systems strategy to address issues and increase efficiencies.
• Design, configure, test, and manage Workday Payroll modules and software release changes.
• Facilitates project manages initiatives that improve operations and efficiencies.
• Collaborate, obtain input from stakeholders on enhancements, and facilitate change management.
• Manage the day-to-day activities, processes, priorities, and initiatives of the Systems team.
• Develop business and functional requirements to achieve desired Payroll enhancements and continual improvements.
• Obtain Payroll Department input on enhancements and needs to alleviate recurring issues as well as improve operations.
• Develop and manage project plan including timeline, activities, responsible owner, milestones, communications, and change management through the software life cycle.
• Status management and stakeholders on ongoing progress, identifying issues, and possible risks.
• Collaborate with IT on forthcoming software releases and plan accordingly for business requirements, configuration needs, and testing.
• Collaborate with IT to obtain programming resources and each department’s responsibilities and deliverables.
• Manages a wide range of quality control tests, SIT, UAT, regression, data files, and analysis to ensure software meets or exceeds specified standards.
• Reviews and provides feedback on test scripts and plan.
• Manage the day-to-day configuration activities, and priorities of the team.
• Delegates responsibilities, communicates expectations, and sets deadlines.
• Responsible for maintaining current processes and procedures focusing on continual improvement and efficiencies.
• Identifies and implements innovative solutions for practice or workflow changes to improve department operations or other department-specific measures by leading unit projects and/or other department/system directed activities.
• Supports change initiatives, maintaining effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment; adjusts effectively to work within new work structures, processes, requirements or cultures.
• Prepares annual operational and personnel budgets.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems or equivalent required.
• Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) required.
• Experience: At least six (6) years Enterprise Software configuration experience with increasing responsibilities.
• Experience: At least 4 years Workday Payroll analytics experience including project managing testing and software releases.
• Experience: Experience leading teams or supervisory experience desired.
• Experience: Experience with SOX 404 internal control procedures for payroll.
• Knowledge, Skills And Abilities: Accurate mathematical and reconciliation skills.
• Professional verbal and written communication skills.
• Process and continual improvement driven.