HCM Principal Consultant
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HCM Principal Consultant leading complex client implementations for PARA Consulting. Overseeing all HCM projects ensuring quality and successful delivery at scale.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as the Lead Consultant on HCM implementations from discovery through go-live
- Oversee all active HCM projects, ensuring alignment with delivery standards, timelines, and quality expectations
- Lead and review functional configurations across HCM modules
- Create, review, and approve functional documentation, workflows, and UAT test scripts
- Ensure compliance with SOC/SOX requirements and client-facing audit controls
- Facilitate executive-level client workshops and business requirement sessions
- Act as the escalation point for complex functional, compliance, or delivery issues
- Partner with Project Management to monitor project health, risks, and success metrics
- Mentor, coach, and provide functional guidance to HCM consultants across projects
- Ensure consistency in implementation approach, documentation, and best practices
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align business requirements with system capabilities
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in HR, IT, Business Administration, or a related field
- 5+ years of experience in HCM consulting or HR systems implementations (Rippling, Workday, NetSuite SuitePeople, ADP, UKG, or similar)
- 2+ years of experience in a lead, senior, or supervisory role
- Proven experience leading end-to-end HCM implementations
- Strong experience creating and reviewing functional documentation and UAT test scripts
- Solid knowledge of SOC/SOX compliance or internal control frameworks
- Excellent stakeholder management and client-facing communication skills
- Ability to translate business needs into scalable HCM system configurations
- Strong understanding of end-to-end HR processes and optimized HCM workflows
- Relevant HCM certifications (e.g., Workday HCM, Rippling, ADP, UKG) - Preferred
- Experience overseeing multiple concurrent HCM implementations - Preferred
- Experience in multi-country or global HCM deployments - Preferred
- Knowledge of regional compliance requirements (GDPR, SOX, labor regulations) - Preferred
- Familiarity with payroll, tax, benefits administration, and open enrollment workflows - Preferred
- Experience with HR data migration and system integrations - Preferred.
Benefits:
- Growth Opportunities – Build expertise across domains, work on high-visibility projects, and shape scalable delivery processes.
- True Strategic Impact – Be part of our clients’ long-term transformations, not just one-off projects.
- Mentorship & Leadership Development – Opportunities to coach junior resources and help grow PARA.
- Autonomy & Flexibility – We trust our team to deliver results.
- Remote-First Culture – Work from anywhere and connect meaningfully with global teammates.
- Lean, Agile Operations – Skip corporate red tape, just make it happen.
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