Payroll Transformation PM for Workday & UKG (Remote)

Connect Centric, LLC.; United States; Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Connect Centric, LLC. is seeking a Project Manager to lead the payroll workstream within enterprise HCM initiatives, focusing on UKG and Workday.

You will plan, coordinate, and track deliverables, schedules, risks, testing, cutover, and operational transition across payroll domains. You will collaborate with payroll, HR, finance, operations, IT, and vendors to align scope, resolve risks, and ensure compliant, on‑time delivery in a hybrid, US‑based environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 5+ years delivering enterprise HCM/payroll initiatives.
• Experience with UKG and Workday payroll implementations.
• Expertise in planning, requirements, configuration, and integration coordination.
• Hands-on payroll testing, data validation, and post‑go-live stabilization.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning and execution tracking for the payroll workstream across UKG, Workday, and related workforce management initiatives.
• Develop, maintain, and track payroll workstream plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, action items, and implementation activities.
• Facilitate payroll workstream meetings; prepare materials, document decisions, track follow‑up actions, and communicate progress to stakeholders and leadership.
• Coordinate with payroll, HR, finance, operations, IT, the Senior Program Manager, vendors, and implementation partners to clarify scope, align priorities, and resolve risks and issues.
• Coordinate payroll requirements, configuration decisions, business workflows, integrations, data validation, testing, and implementation readiness for UKG and Workday.
• Support payroll cutover, implementation, transition planning, and post‑implementation stabilization.
• Maintain dashboards, status reports, decision logs, RAID logs, action trackers, and other payroll project documentation.
• Communicate payroll delivery status, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, compliance considerations, and adoption impacts to leadership and affected teams.
• Support payroll process improvement, change management, stakeholder readiness, training coordination, and adoption planning.
• Apply client‑approved project standards, templates, governance routines, and delivery methods; follow client policies, confidentiality expectations, information security requirements, and applicable compliance standards.
• Assess payroll operations, workforce processes, data considerations, platform roadmaps, and vendor capabilities to recommend practical solutions and improvements.
• Help ensure deliverables meet business needs, quality expectations, compliance requirements, data integrity standards, configuration expectations, and delivery commitments while balancing enhancements, stakeholder requests, and deadlines.

Skills

Payroll leadership

UKG

Workday

Project planning

Stakeholder management

Risk & issue tracking

Agile delivery

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Microsoft Project

Smartsheet

Jira

DevOps

Job description

Connect Centric, LLC. is seeking a Project Manager to lead the payroll workstream within enterprise HCM initiatives, focusing on UKG and Workday.

You will plan, coordinate, and track deliverables, schedules, risks, testing, cutover, and operational transition across payroll domains. You will collaborate with payroll, HR, finance, operations, IT, and vendors to align scope, resolve risks, and ensure compliant, on‑time delivery in a hybrid, US‑based environment.