Portfolio Manager, Payroll Transformation Portfolio Management

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Payroll Portfolio Manager to enhance its Finance Operations team. The candidate will manage the Payroll Transformation portfolio, ensuring that project prioritization aligns with business goals. This significant role involves working closely with stakeholders to optimize payroll products and processes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant work experience in managing complex software implementation.
• Ability to manage multiple projects/programs effectively.
• Experience working across multiple geographies.

Responsibilities

• Drive prioritization and assessment for Payroll Transformation portfolio.
• Facilitate stakeholder engagement and manage project dependencies.
• Deliver metrics on project completions and operational performance.

Skills

Program Management

Communication

Analytical Skills

Stakeholder Management

Problem Solving

Education

Portfolio and Project Management Education

Job description

Job ID: 2968175 | Amazon Czech Republic Services s.r.o.

Amazon strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company. Amazon's evolution from Web site to e-commerce partner to development platform is driven by the spirit of innovation that is part of the company's DNA. The world's brightest minds come to Amazon to research and develop technology that improves the lives of shoppers, developers, publishers and sellers around the world. Amazon’s vision is to offer the earth’s largest selection and lowest prices to our customers.

Amazon seeks a Payroll Portfolio Manager to join our expanding Finance Operations (FinOps) Payroll Transformation (PT) team. FinOps is looking for a driven Portfolio Manager to drive the prioritization, assessment, customer and partner engagements to manage Payroll Transformations portfolio. The role will work closely with internal stakeholders to ensure that requests are triaged through a single intake and portfolio management process, keeping the process as customer focused and simple as possible whilst providing critical data points to enable prioritisation, resource planning and capacity management, and reporting.

This is an exciting opportunity to join an area which touches every aspect of Amazon’s wide range of businesses and is an enabler in ensuring Amazon continue to be the world’s most customer centric organisation.


Key job responsibilities
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
• Develop an in-depth understanding of Amazon’s payroll products, business models, payroll architecture and global operations supporting the end-to-end Payroll function and supporting processes.
• Accountable for defining, reporting, and orchestrating decision-making to deliver Payroll portfolio and priorities at global level.
• Drives the prioritization of projects that best contribute to accomplishing shared leadership goals with Payroll Operations and partner teams based on risks, business goals, benefits/returns, dependencies with other projects and programs, resource and skill availability.
• Develops and executes qualitative and quantitative techniques such as ranking models and scoring methods to make project prioritization decisions.
• Works with internal partners in performing impact assessment, identifying project dependencies and obtaining confirmation that all technology and resource dependencies are committed to aid in prioritization.
• Evaluates demands and articulates with senior leaders the impacts and requirements to meet the demands.
• Works with internal Payroll functions, Payroll Operations, and other partners to deliver opportunities and manage dependencies with other portfolios, programs and projects.
• Builds and manages governance model for all programs and projects of the portfolio. Review benefits/ROI performance, schedule performance, quality performance, and risk/issues status and recommend strategic approach/solutions.
• Create and manage contingency plan using historical data, skills available and gaps, resource capacity, and lead the organization on the right path.
• Build trust by owning stakeholder and management reporting and communications structure. Build and support critical relationships with internal and external customers and business partners.
• Be the single point of contact for Payroll functional teams, their stakeholders and partners.
• Partner with global payroll operations, partnering teams, and business line owners to bring pay impacting issues on a central platform, understand these concerns and facilitate partnership between POCs to address and resolve these problems.
• Deliver programs/projects and implement a comprehensive change management strategy to integrate changes between upstream processes and payroll operations.
• Continuously review projects to ensure they are aligned with the business objectives and benefits/returns are not negatively impacted using cost-benefit-risk analysis.
• Create and report metrics on forecast, project completions, reschedules, benefit realization and returns.
• Coordinate with other Portfolio and Program managers in the prioritization, portfolio planning, tollgate reviews, and have visibility on the end-to-end project lifecycle. Serve as Payroll portfolio and business partner interface with Payroll Operations and other partner teams.
• Develop, execute, and drive continuous improvement of Payroll’s prioritization, portfolio/program governance management mechanisms.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Extensive Program/Portfolio/Transformation Management experience in a related industry, including managing complex software implementation
Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to present in a clear and concise manner to all levels within the enterprise
Ability to think clearly, analyse quantitatively, problem-solve, scope business requirements, manage risks appropriately and effectively. Ability to manage multiple projects/programs
Results oriented person with a proven track record of on-time project/program delivery for large, cross-functional projects with global stakeholders
Team player with the ability to draw from the above experience and work on over reaching, global, project strategy
Ability to run meeting, workshops with senior business, Operations, and Payroll teams to understand requirements, facilitate assessment and prioritization of intake requests.
Experience working and managing issues/risks, establishing communication plans and stakeholder management
Proven experience working in a matrix organization where most team members do not report directly to the PMO
Self-starter capable to taking initiative and working with minimal direction
Proven ability to handle confidential information appropriately
Experience working on projects across multiple geographies
5+ yrs of relevant work experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Formal Portfolio and Project Management education
- Payroll industry background
- Knowledge of project delivery methodologies
- Knowledge of risk assessment of financial products and services.

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