Payroll Project Job Description
Payroll Project Duties & Responsibilities
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Payroll Project Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Payroll Project
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: PMP, CPP, FPC, PMI, MOC, PM, HCM, FPX, IPASS
Education for Payroll Project
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Employers hiring for the payroll project job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Collage Degree in Education, Accounting, Business, Business/Administration, Finance, Computer Science, Human Resources, Project Management, Associates, Business/Management
Skills for Payroll Project
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Payroll Project Examples
Payroll Project Job Description
- Support Finance Payroll operations with continued development of training materials, problem solving techniques, and supporting to improve critical business metrics
- Represent Finance Payroll OEBA in local and global meetings/conference calls and with network-wide projects
- Perform basic analysis & research related to payroll processing, reconciliation and auditing
- Support audits and the review of amendments to payroll tax returns from W-2s and prior quarter/year corrections
- Review amendments to payroll tax returns resulting from W2 and prior quarter/year corrections – obtain approvals, review amendment report, monitor status, and coordinate required deposits
- Create and distribute ad hoc reporting using payroll vendor system for functional requests
- Manages Workday implementations through all life cycles stages
- Keep the system configuration in the area of HR PY and TM up to date as per business requirements and legislation
- Work with HRIS resource to automate union time tracking and absence
- Aligns team activities and efforts to overall achievement of project objectives
- Able to generate process improvement ideas
- Advanced proficiency with ADP
- Experience using statistical process improvement methodologies, , Six Sigma
- 3-7 years previous program/project management experience required including scope and requirements definition, problem solving and process improvements in current Internet-based technology environment
- Experience managing projects within Workday, PeopleSoft, Oracle, SAP or similar applications
- Must successfully pass Workday HCM and/or Financials Core and PM training classes and retain Workday certification
Payroll Project Job Description
- Payroll table maintenance for earnings, deductions and any other changes that may occur
- Supporting projects and cross functional initiatives that maybe required within the scope of the projects
- Acting as a Business Analyst to support any tax reconciliations for year end and W2 processing
- Updating and/or creating new process documentation in support of system changes
- Escalating issues/risks proactively to appropriate team and members and management
- Regularly communicating status and challenges to team members and management
- Organise and facilitate ad-hoc working sessions to support the process design or redesign workshops and testing cycles
- Author/facilitate project management documents such as project charters/scope statements, project plans, and present project updates to business owners
- Manage and communicate a clear project scope and motivate team members
- Manage business owner(s) and team member(s) relationships to accomplish project activities
- Ability to advocate a creative atmosphere, facilitate entrepreneurial meetings, and envision a final product and overall market acceptance early in the design and/or development process
- Ability to establish alliances with other departments and organizations by recognizing dependencies
- Awareness of cultural diversity and can embrace and capitalize those differences
- Ability to identify project risks by defining risk strategies and developing the risk management plan
- SAP HR project implementation is an advantage
- 2 plus years of project management work experience
Payroll Project Job Description
- Getting input from the Benelux Payroll team in order to identify, analyse, define and write out the workflows and the Standard Operating Procedures that are used within the team
- Actively participate in Project meetings with technical and/or Business personnel to assess and validate requirements, monitor and report progress, and effectively track and resolve project concerns
- Generate project plans for the various initiatives and maintain status reports
- Ensure the resource requirements for the various projects are properly estimated and made available as required
- Lead high impact Lean Six Sigma projects (DMAIC, DFSS, Kaizen, FMEA)
- Manage a portfolio of improvement projects Lean Six Sigma & BA related, including auditing of implemented projects to ensure that process improvements are sustained and benefits are realized
- Work with stakeholders and product owners to understand the users’ goals and objectives and identify success criteria
- Lead efforts in analyzing, collecting, and prioritizing user requirements, and translate business requirements into technical design, processes and use cases
- Partner with the development team on system design and gap analysis
- Work with stakeholder requirements for scoping and understanding roadmap challenges
- Large ERP experience (PeopleSoft, SAP, Oracle, Workday) required
- 8+ years’ experience in project leadership and management including support of large or complex projects
- Experience in project launch/deployment
- Advanced report writing and Microsoft programs
- Strong knowledge of SAP Payroll and Time schemas
- Strong knowledge of SAP Time Evaluation, CATS and Quota configuration
Payroll Project Job Description
- Responsible for collecting data, preparing, and delivery of Global Payroll metrics
- Maintain Payroll website for updates, schedules, calendars Globally
- Manage global payroll requirements ie, headcount, calendars, legal entities, legal requirements, systems used, etc
- Work with all stakeholders to ensure implemented solution meets defined success criteria
- Communicate with Stakeholders, in a manner that enables them to have a common understanding of the product status, risks, and decision points of system or process changes
- Partner with the PMO team in assessing tools, approaches, processes, methodology and techniques to improve efficiency
- Operate against standard operating procedures (SOP) & processes to meet regulatory, compliance and internal requirements
- Review Tax Open Items log periodically with vendor
- Review Quarterly Tax Verification Reports, filing entity profiles, multi-jurisdiction reports, and submit updates to vendor as needed
- Review quarterly Wage and Tax Registers
- Knowledge of SAP HCM including PA, OM, Benefits and Master Data
- Working knowledge of other SAP areas and modules
- Knowledge of SAP Human Resources, Benefits and HR Master Data
- Working abilities in Solution Manager
- Able to work and excel in a multi-tasked team environment
- Able to evaluate and communicate risk and escalate issues
Payroll Project Job Description
- Performs regular audits of employee data as it relates to payroll deductions, taxes, salary adjustments, profile/system access set-up
- Audit payroll reports for accuracy and process payroll adjustments as needed
- Acts as a back-up to Payroll Project Manager and other payroll team members as needed
- Payroll implementation support, including project management
- Payroll integration projects including time & attendance consolidation and
- Administer & coordinate payroll process standardization initiatives
- Responsible for maintaining compliance requirements for Payroll transactional processes
- Working with payroll supervisors to develop regional KPI measurement to monitor performance and group commitments to goals and objectives and measures results to improve transactional efficiencies
- Develop understanding applicable Payroll and related other systems in order to streamline processes and achieve deliverables
- Work with third party vendors on system set-up issues regarding time, accruals, payroll, projects
- Bachelors in Computer Science, Information Management, Information Technology
- 5 or more years working with SAP-HCM from a technical perspective
- Knowledgeable of the various industries (Healthcare, Manufacturing, Hospitality)
- Excellent in Microsoft (PowerPoint, Excel, Word)
- Sound expertise in service delivery models
- HR functional expertise is beneficial