Remote Payroll Implementation Specialist

Justworks, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Quotient|HR is expanding its team to support Payroll Implementation Advisors who guide clients through payroll and HRIS implementations, testing, go-live, and ongoing support. You will work with platforms like Workday, UKG, Dayforce, Rippling, and ADP to ensure accurate payroll outcomes and successful project delivery.

This role emphasizes hands-on payroll expertise, client communication, and the ability to translate complex requirements into tested, reliable processes across multiple client

Qualifications

• 5+ years of payroll, HRIS implementation, or payroll consulting experience.
• Hands-on experience with at least one major HRIS/payroll platform such as Workday, UKG, Dayforce, Rippling, ADP, or similar.
• Strong understanding of U.S. payroll, gross-to-net calculations, deductions, taxes, and payroll reconciliation.
• Experience with payroll implementation, parallel payroll, system testing, or post-go-live support.
• Working knowledge of Time Tracking, Absence, Benefits, Projects and how those areas feed payroll.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and client communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Support payroll discovery, requirements, testing, reconciliation, go-live readiness, and post-launch stabilization.
• Build and execute payroll test scenarios covering regular and off-cycle payroll, retroactivity, deductions, taxes, garnishments, overtime, and common exception cases.
• Support parallel payroll and gross-to-net reconciliation, investigate variances, and document results clearly.
• Evaluate upstream processes such as Time Tracking, Absence, Benefits, and employee data that affect payroll outcomes.
• Troubleshoot issues with client teams, implementation partners, vendors, and technical resources.
• Support payroll-related integrations, vendor files, data validation, and downstream handoffs.
• Maintain useful testing artifacts, issue logs, process documentation, and client-ready recommendations.
• Contribute to QHR implementation and managed-services playbooks as the practice grows.

Skills

Payroll expertise

Client communication

Analytical thinking

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Tools

Workday

UKG

Dayforce

Rippling

ADP

Job description

Quotient|HR is expanding its team to support Payroll Implementation Advisors who guide clients through payroll and HRIS implementations, testing, go-live, and ongoing support. You will work with platforms like Workday, UKG, Dayforce, Rippling, and ADP to ensure accurate payroll outcomes and successful project delivery.

This role emphasizes hands-on payroll expertise, client communication, and the ability to translate complex requirements into tested, reliable processes across multiple client