HR and Payroll Systems Modernization Portfolio Project Manager

Job Family:

Travel Required:

Clearance Required:

What You Will Do:

• Manage individual projects under the Strategic Project Management Office including HR and Payroll modernization initiatives data migration efforts system integrations and enterprise modernization projects.

• Draft and maintain integrated project plans executive strategic roadmaps risk management strategies and cross-functional timelines resource plans and critical paths
• Provide regular program updates risks concerns and executive-level insights to senior leadership
• Coordinate with application leads functional owners integrators and technical teams to ensure dependencies system impacts and timelines are fully understood and managed.
• Facilitate recurring program meetings workshops and working sessions to drive alignment decision-making and issue resolution.
• Publish agendas meeting minutes action items risks and decisions for all PMO-led meetings.
• Maintain a comprehensive RAID log and a formal Risk Management Plan encompassing resource risks technical risks data migration risks workaround strategies and design impacts.
• Track more than 100 system integrations (Payroll inbound/outbound HR application changes SAP UAP EEB PIM S/4HANA) across multiple modernization efforts.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and maintain an up-to-date stakeholder register across all active projects.
• Prepare communications briefings status reports and executiveready presentation material.
• Support coordination across parallel modernization initiatives such as Retirement Modernization SAP-to-Cloud Migration SSoT data model changes HR BI modernization performance modernization JBM decouple ATS modernization and related HR/Payroll transformation efforts.

What You Will Need:

• Minimum of six (6) years of relevant experience examples include: program or project management supporting enterprisescale multiyear IT modernization or business transformation initiatives for payroll or HR system portfolios.
• A Bachelors degree is required.
• US Citizenship is required due to client project requirements.
• A PMP- Project Management Professional certification is required.
• Proven ability to manage large programs with multiple workstreams high interdependencies and executive visibility.
• Strong command of industry-standard PM methodologies (PMP Agile hybrid approaches) and enterprise project management tools.
• Demonstrated success in:
  • Building and maintaining complex project schedules
  • Managing cross-functional teams
  • Leading executive-level briefings
  • Facilitating working sessions and driving decision-making
• Excellent organizational documentation communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to anticipate issues conduct risk analysis and build mitigation plans across technical functional and schedule dimensions.
• Experience in IT PMO for a large payroll technology implementation or a large human capital management technology implementation.
• Experience coordinating with multiple technical and business teams simultaneously (HR Payroll Financial Systems Data Engineering Integration Platforms Cloud Operations).
• Ability to work with highly complex legacy-to-cloud transition programs particularly those involving parallel operations and large-scale data migration.

What Would Be Nice To Have:

• Agile Certification (such as PMI-ACP Certified ScrumMaster or equivalent) is preferred.
• Hands-on familiarity with ServiceNow HR workflows or HR process modernization initiatives.
• Prior involvement in implementing Single Source of Truth (SSoT) data architectures.
• Change management communications strategy or organizational readiness expertise.
• Federal consulting experience and/or managing PMO environments with technical SMEs and analyst support teams.
• Technology certifications relative to IT Modernization initiatives or associate disciplines such as (but not limited to) AWS Cloud Practitioner Azure Fundamentals COMPTIA Security CompTIA Cloud Essentials FinOps Practitioner etc
• Experience in:
  • Direct experience with SaaS Payroll solutions (Ceridian Workday Oracle SAP SuccessFactors or similar)
  • Experience delivering analytics of BI modernization efforts (Databricks modern reporting platforms SAP Business Warehouse etc)
  • Experience implementing SAP for Human Capital Management to include migrating from SAP-HCM to SAP S/4 HANA

What We Offer:

Guidehouse offers a comprehensive total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.

Benefits include:

• Medical Rx Dental & Vision Insurance

• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays

• Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus

• Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance

• 401(k) Retirement Plan

• Basic Life & Supplemental Life

• Health Savings Account Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts

• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability

• Student Loan PayDown

• Tuition Reimbursement Personal Development & Learning Opportunities

• Skills Development & Certifications

• Employee Referral Program

• Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach

• Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program

• Mobility Stipend

About Guidehouse

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