Partner, Payroll Ops and Processing Projects
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Job Description
Payroll projects principal leading enterprise payroll transformation for Envision, a national medical group. Optimizing payroll systems, controls, testing, governance, and change management.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as a payroll subject matter expert for strategic initiatives
- Partner with Payroll, HRIS, HR, IT, and business leaders to incorporate payroll requirements, business rules, handoffs, downstream impacts, and employee experience considerations
- Align payroll requirements, analyze data and stakeholder feedback, assess operational impacts, and recommend scalable improvements
- Evaluate and optimize payroll processes, systems, controls, workflows, integrations, and reporting
- Translate payroll business needs into system requirements, configuration considerations, testing scenarios, and operational procedures
- Oversee project planning, timelines, milestones, issues, and risk escalation
- Lead governance routines, workstream meetings, stakeholder updates, decision documentation, and status reporting
- Develop and improve payroll process documentation, standard operating procedures, test scripts, job aids, training materials, and control documentation
- Oversee data readiness, mapping, validation, reconciliation, and quality assurance activities
- Define and lead payroll testing strategies, including UAT, regression testing, calculation validation, and implementation readiness
- Lead change management and adoption activities for payroll process and system changes
- Monitor post-implementation outcomes, support stabilization, identify root causes, and recommend corrective actions or enhancements
Requirements:
- Strong understanding of payroll operations, payroll processing, payroll controls, HRIS dependencies, time and attendance, employee data, and related HR processes
- Demonstrated ability to lead strategic initiatives, process improvement efforts, system enhancements, and cross-functional projects in a complex organization
- Ability to translate payroll requirements into practical business processes, system considerations, documentation, testing scenarios, and operational recommendations
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills
- Strong communication, collaboration, and facilitation skills
- Ability to manage confidential payroll and employee data with integrity, discretion, and compliance awareness
- Ability to organize work, manage competing priorities, track deliverables, and lead multiple initiatives
- Experience supporting process standardization, automation, governance, documentation, controls, reporting, or operational readiness activities
- Ability to influence without direct authority and guide decision-making through analysis and recommendations
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Information Systems, or related field required
- Minimum 8 years of payroll, HR operations, HRIS, or related business process experience required
- Experience leading payroll transformation, HRIS projects, payroll system enhancements, time and attendance initiatives, or other cross-functional HR/payroll initiatives preferred
- Experience in a multi-state, multi-entity, high-volume payroll environment preferred
- Payroll certification or relevant professional certification preferred
- Employment eligibility verification required through E-Verify
Benefits:
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Healthcare FSA
- Dependent Care FSA
- Limited Healthcare FSA
- Transportation and Parking FSAs
- HSA
- Paid time off (minimum 20 days and up to 25 days per calendar year)
- 9 observed holidays
- Paid family leave
- Benefits eligibility from day one for qualifying employees
- Comprehensive benefits package
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