Payroll Project Manager

iSystems Ltd; Lahore; On-site; PKR 1,800,000 - 3,600,000; Full time

Job summary

iSystems Ltd in Lahore, Pakistan seeks an experienced Payroll Project Manager to lead the planning, implementation, and delivery of payroll projects. You will manage end-to-end lifecycle, coordinate business and technical teams, ensure accurate payroll requirements, and oversee integrations, testing, compliance, and go-live activities.

The ideal candidate has deep payroll operations experience, hands-on HRIS implementations, and proven cross-functional stakeholder management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Human Resources, Finance, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in payroll, HRIS, payroll transformation, or payroll implementation projects.
• Proven experience managing payroll system implementations, upgrades, or transformation initiatives.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end payroll processes, including payroll calculation, validation, reconciliation, and reporting.
• Experience working with payroll systems, HRIS platforms, and payroll-related integrations.
• Experience integrating payroll systems with HRIS, Finance/ERP, time management, benefits, banking, and third-party applications.
• Experience managing payroll projects across multiple countries, legal entities, or business units.
• Demonstrated focus on data privacy considerations in payroll.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end payroll projects from planning and requirements gathering through implementation, go-live, and post-implementation support.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans, milestones, timelines, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Coordinate payroll process design, system configuration, testing, and implementation activities.
• Manage payroll-related integrations between HRIS, payroll, time and attendance, finance, banking, benefits, and other third-party systems.
• Oversee data migration, employee data validation, payroll configuration, and reconciliation activities.
• Lead System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), parallel payroll runs, payroll validation, and production readiness.
• Ensure payroll calculations, earnings, deductions, benefits, taxes, leave, overtime, and other payroll components are accurately configured and validated.
• Collaborate with Payroll, HR, Finance, IT, vendors, and implementation partners to ensure successful project delivery.
• Identify, assess, and manage project risks, issues, dependencies, and change requests.
• Monitor project progress, track key milestones, and provide regular status updates and reports to senior management.
• Ensure applicable payroll regulations, statutory requirements, and compliance standards are incorporated into project design and implementation.
• Maintain project documentation, including RAID logs, action trackers, requirements documents, test results, status reports, and implementation decisions.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and ensure timely resolution of project-related challenges.
• Coordinate knowledge transfer and ensure a smooth transition to payroll and HR operations teams following implementation.

Skills

Payroll operations

HRIS

Project management

Stakeholder management

Data privacy

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

PMP

PRINCE2

Agile

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Payroll Project Manager to lead the planning, implementation, and delivery of payroll projects. The role will be responsible for managing the end-to-end payroll project lifecycle, coordinating business and technical teams, ensuring payroll requirements are accurately delivered, and overseeing system integrations, testing, compliance, and go-live activities.

The successful candidate will have strong experience in payroll operations, payroll systems implementation, HRIS, project management, and cross-functional stakeholder management.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end payroll projects from planning and requirements gathering through implementation, go-live, and post-implementation support.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans, milestones, timelines, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Coordinate payroll process design, system configuration, testing, and implementation activities.
• Manage payroll-related integrations between HRIS, payroll, time and attendance, finance, banking, benefits, and other third-party systems.
• Oversee data migration, employee data validation, payroll configuration, and reconciliation activities.
• Lead System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), parallel payroll runs, payroll validation, and production readiness.
• Ensure payroll calculations, earnings, deductions, benefits, taxes, leave, overtime, and other payroll components are accurately configured and validated.
• Collaborate with Payroll, HR, Finance, IT, vendors, and implementation partners to ensure successful project delivery.
• Identify, assess, and manage project risks, issues, dependencies, and change requests.
• Monitor project progress, track key milestones, and provide regular status updates and reports to senior management.
• Ensure applicable payroll regulations, statutory requirements, and compliance standards are incorporated into project design and implementation.
• Maintain project documentation, including RAID logs, action trackers, requirements documents, test results, status reports, and implementation decisions.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and ensure timely resolution of project-related challenges.
• Coordinate knowledge transfer and ensure a smooth transition to payroll and HR operations teams following implementation.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Human Resources, Finance, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in payroll, HRIS, payroll transformation, or payroll implementation projects.
• Proven experience managing payroll system implementations, upgrades, or transformation initiatives.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end payroll processes, including payroll calculation, validation, reconciliation, and reporting.
• Experience working with payroll systems, HRIS platforms, and payroll-related integrations.
• Experience integrating payroll systems with HRIS, Finance/ERP, time management, benefits, banking, and third-party applications.
• Experience managing payroll projects across multiple countries, legal entities, or business units.
• Strong knowledge of payroll compliance, statutory requirements, and data privacy considerations.
• Demonstrated experience managing cross-functional teams, external vendors, project timelines, and stakeholder expectations.
• Excellent project planning, risk management, problem-solving, communication, and organizational skills.
• Proficiency in project management tools and documentation practices.
• PMP, PRINCE2, Agile, or an equivalent project management certification is preferred.