Manager, Payroll Jobs

The Project Manager delivers large scale projects within the global payroll organization including large country implementations onto ADP GlobalView and Workday Time and various small to large scale acquisitions and implementations to ADP Celergo. The successful candidate oversees cost, quality, plan, time, resource allocation and benefits realization. By ensuring that all projects adhere to the best practices and standard approaches for Thermo Fisher, the Project Manager ensures execution is controlled and goals are achieved on time. The Project Manager implements standard methodologies to enable the successful delivery of a broad scope of country payroll projects across Thermo Fisher’s global footprint. Main responsibilities of the Project Manager include scope management; project vision and blueprint development; benefits and quality management; partner management; portfolio management, and project planning including achievement management; risk and issue management; and vendor management. Integral to delivering these responsibilities will be financial management; maintaining risks, issues, assumptions, actions logs; resource forecasting; change control; dependency management; and project reporting.

These are highly visibility projects that will need someone with both strategic and execution skills, a proven track record of successful execution in the payroll space and the ability to work well with and influence internal and external partners.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain a project road map from concept to pilot to roll-out.

• Ensure alignment of project scope and schedule to meet project objectives.

• Facilitate meetings regarding projects on a regular basis.
• Manage small and large tasks and time allocations for multiple projects and across multiple departments simultaneously.
• Demonstrate wide-ranging experience and use professional concepts in developing resolutions to critical issues.
• Coordinate project closure to distill good practice and ensure lessons learned are logged.
• Compile and manage project related financial and important metric information.
• Ability to coordinate across cross-functionally.
• Set standards and processes for the project and ensure all constituent are aligned.
• Ensure efficient change control methods and processes are used.
• Manage project-related reporting and communication.
• Ensure legal and compliance considerations are fully accounted for in all requirements.

Qualifications

• CPP/PMP a plus
• APAC, EMEA and LATAM payroll knowledge, preferred
• Strong leadership presence, required
• Extensive experience working in a progressive payroll position within a global delivery environment, required
• Bachelor’s degree and work-related experience, required
• Advanced program or project management experience in the global payroll space, required
• Expert knowledge of ADP GlobalView/Celergo, Workday HCM/Time and/or mergers & acquisitions, required

Other Considerations

• Strong and demonstrated ability to build lasting relationships with key collaborators.
• Excellent written/oral communication skills for reports and presentations.
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint
• Solid skills in creating and maintaining project plans, including risks, actions, issues, dependencies.
• Diplomatic ability to influence others at all levels of the business.
• Must perform well in high-energy, dynamic, and team-oriented environments
• Proven track record for planning, carrying out, controlling and closing projects and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Willingness to provide leadership, coaching, and/or mentoring to a subordinate group
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to establish working relationships with individuals at varying levels within the organization
• Experience of managing the complete lifecycle of a project with project teams of 10+ people.
• Highly efficient in resource planning and tasks assignment.