Compensation ERP Module Lead

University of Missouri System; Columbia Township (MO); On-site; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision plans

Retirement benefits

Paid time off

Disability insurance

Parental leave

Educational fee discounts

Job summary

University of Missouri System is seeking an ERP Module Lead to provide functional leadership for Compensation and Position Classification within the ERP rollout. You will configure, test, deploy, and optimize HRIS processes across the university system, ensuring data integrity and governance.

The role partners with Compensation, HR, vendors, and campus teams to standardize enterprise processes. Minimum qualifications include a bachelor’s degree and at least three years of related HRIS/ERP

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience with at least 3 years of relevant HRIS/ERP experience.
• Experience with compensation structures, salary grades and ranges, and merit processes.
• Ability to translate policies into system configurations, workflows, and controls.

Responsibilities

• Lead implementation and optimization of Compensation and Position Classification functionality through design, configuration, and testing.
• Serve as HRIS functional expert for job/position classification and salary data.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to design ERP processes for creating, reviewing, and maintaining jobs and positions.
• Develop and maintain standard enterprise configurations, data mappings, and governance practices.

Skills

ERP/HRIS expertise

Core HR processes

Salary structures

Data governance

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Hiring Department

ERP Project

Job Description

Provides functional leadership for the planning, design,implementation, configuration, testing, deployment, and ongoingoptimization of ERP functionality supporting Compensation andPosition Classification. Serves as the primary HRIS subject matterexpert for job and position classification, compensationstructures, salary grades and ranges, merit processes, eligibilityrules, and related business processes.

Partners with Compensation, Human Resources, campusrepresentatives, project and technical teams, vendors, andimplementation partners to establish standardized enterpriseprocesses, translate business requirements into effective systemsolutions, maintain data integrity, and promote successful adoptionof ERP functionality.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead implementation and optimization of Compensation and PositionClassification functionality, including design, configuration,business rules, validations, workflow, testing, deployment, andpost-production support.
• Serve as the HRIS functional expert for job and positionclassification, job families and functions, career levels, salarystructures, grades and ranges, compensation plans, merit processes,and related reference data.
• Partner with Compensation and HR stakeholders to design ERPprocesses for creating, reviewing, classifying, reclassifying, andmaintaining jobs and positions.
• Translate compensation policies and program requirements intosystem configuration, eligibility criteria, workflows, approvals,validations, and controls.
• Provide functional leadership for the annual merit cycle,including eligibility, guidelines, manager functionality, workflow,testing, validation, approvals, and cycle completion.
• Gather and analyze requirements, identify differences in campuspractices, facilitate design and decision sessions, and developstandardized enterprise approaches where appropriate.
• Evaluate compensation and classification processes and recommendopportunities to automate workflows, reduce manual work, strengthencontrols, improve data quality, and enhance the stakeholderexperience.
• Advise on module scope, configuration decisions, enhancements,and complex functional issues. Document recommendations andescalate cross-functional risks or governance needs.
• Assess relationships and downstream impacts among compensationstructures, jobs, positions, employees, organizational structures,reporting, integrations, security, and related HR processes.
• Lead and support functional, integration, user acceptance, andregression testing by developing scenarios and scripts, validatingresults, and coordinating issue resolution.
• Support data conversion and migration through mapping, cleansing,validation, and reconciliation of classification, position, salarystructure, merit, and related reference data.
• Develop and support reports, dashboards, audits, data standards,governance practices, and controls that promote accurate andconsistent compensation information.
• Support project planning, timelines, milestones, dependencies,risks, implementation readiness, knowledge transfer, training,change management, and user adoption.
• Develop and maintain documentation for business processes,configuration decisions, testing, data definitions, systemfunctionality, and operational procedures.
• Troubleshoot complex functional and process issues, performroot-cause analysis, recommend solutions, and support continuousimprovement after implementation.

Shift

M-F, 8a-5p, additional hours and weekends as needed

Minimum Qualifications

A bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education andexperience and at least 3 years of experience from which comparableknowledge and skills can be acquired is necessary.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of ERP or HR information systems and Core HR processes,data Knowledge of HR information systems, ERP solutions,compensation, and position classification processes.
• Understanding of job and position structures, salary grades andranges, compensation programs, merit processes, and relatedfoundational HR data.
• Ability to analyze complex requirements and translate them intoeffective configurations, workflows, business rules, controls, andsystem solutions.
• Experience supporting configuration, testing, data conversion andvalidation, reporting, training, implementation, documentation, andpost-production operations.
• Strong analytical, critical-thinking, problem-solving, anddecision-making skills, including the ability to assesscross-functional and downstream impacts.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills, with the abilityto explain complex compensation and system concepts to technicaland non-technical audiences.
• Ability to facilitate discussions, build consensus, and collaboratewith stakeholders across multiple campuses and organizationalunits.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and work effectively in alarge, complex, project-oriented environment.
• Ability to establish productive working relationships withCompensation, HR, project teams, technical resources, vendors, andimplementation partners.

Anticipated Hiring Range

• Salary Range: $75,000 - $95,000 annually
• Grade: GGS-11
• University Title: ERP Module Lead
• Internal applicants can determine their University title byaccessing the Talent Profile tile in myHR.

Sponsorship Information

Employment visa sponsorship is not available for thisposition.

Community Information

Columbia offers small-town friendliness with big city features anda high quality of life for people of all ages and interests.Founded on education and known as an ideal college town, itslocation also makes it an attractive spot for businesses andtravelers. Located on Interstate 70 and U.S. Highway 63, Columbiais right in the middle of the state and the nation. Just a couplehours’ drive from St. Louis and Kansas City, Columbia is BooneCounty’s largest population center offering big-city culture,activities, and resources with a low cost of living. Columbia ishome to a variety of restaurants and entertainment venues and hostsmore than a dozen festivals each year. If you want to grow yourcareer, continue your education, raise a family, and retire,Columbia is a good place to be!

Benefit Eligibility

As part of your total compensation, the University offers a comprehensive benefitspackage, including medical, dental and vision plans, retirement, paid time off, short- and long-term disability, paid parentalleave, paid caregiver leave, and educational fee discounts for allfour UM System campuses. For additional information on Universitybenefits, please visit the Faculty & Staff Benefits website at https://www.umsystem.edu/departments-staff/human-resources/benefits-retirement

Equal Employment Opportunity

The University of Missouri is an Equal Opportunity Employer.