[Remote] Payroll Transformation Project Manager
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sumer is a fast-growing professional services firm dedicated to championing small and medium businesses. As a Payroll Transformation Project Manager, you will play a pivotal role in delivering the payroll transformation programme, coordinating migration activities, and ensuring minimal operational disruption across multiple business units.
Responsibilities
- Lead the planning, governance, and delivery of the payroll migration programme across Sumer hubs and spokes
- Work closely with Payroll teams to understand current processes, operational requirements and migration readiness. Develop and manage detailed project plans, timelines, milestones, risks, dependencies, budget and resource allocation
- Coordinate hub-by-hub migration activity, ensuring rollout sequencing is clear and realistic
- Coordinate with Technology, Procurement and third-party providers to ensure system, contract and implementation dependencies are managed effectively
- Support the planning and delivery of user testing, parallel runs, data validation, training and go-live readiness
- Identify, escalate and mitigate project risks, blockers and dependencies
- Ensure clear communication and reporting of project progress to key stakeholders and governance forums, including developing communication plans to the broader team
- Support standardisation of payroll processes and ways of working across hubs and spokes
- Ensure successful transition into business-as-usual operations, including documentation, ownership, support routes and lessons learned. Monitor post implementation progress, adoption and key delivery outcomes
Skills
- Demonstrated experience in managing multiple technology and transformation project streams efficiently
- Strong planning, governance and delivery discipline
- Strong aptitude for data analysis and problem-solving with a structured approach
- Proven ability to engage and manage relationships with diverse stakeholders and cross-functions
- Ability to manage third-party vendors and external delivery partners
- A solution-focused mindset, capable of identifying and addressing challenges that arise during projects
- Highly organised, delivery-focused and able to maintain momentum across several workstreams
- Ability to work and adapt in a fast-paced professional services environment
- Expertise in evaluating current workflows and recommending improvements for efficiency and consistency
- Practical understanding of testing and change adoption
- Clear and concise communication skills, with the ability to simplify complexity and drive action
- Previous experience working in a professional services environment, including familiarity with payroll or finance operations
- Experience delivering payroll, HR, ERP or other operational system implementations
- Experience supporting data migration, parallel run, testing and go-live activities
- Experience working with external software vendors and implementation partners
- Change management experience, including training coordination, adoption planning and business readiness
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