Remote Workday & Payroll Transformation Project Manager

KellyMitchell Group; United States; Remote; USD 54,000 - 77,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance

Employee-Owned Profit Sharing (ESOP)

401K offered

Job summary

KellyMitchell Group is seeking a Project Manager for Workday & Payroll Transformation to join our client’s team on a 6-month contract. This 100% remote role is open to candidates in the United States and focuses on leading Workday, HRIS, and Payroll transformation initiatives across enterprise HR systems.

You will manage scope, timelines, budgets, and dependencies; drive data migration, testing, and deployment planning; and coordinate with HR, Payroll, Finance, IT, and vendors.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading Workday implementations.
• Experience managing Payroll system implementations.
• Experience with Workday Payroll, HCM, Benefits, Time Tracking, Recruiting, or similar modules.
• Experience participating in multiple HRIS deployments, upgrades, or migrations.
• Experience managing large, complex cross-functional projects in matrixed organizations.
• Strong experience facilitating governance meetings, stakeholder communications, and executive-level reporting.

Responsibilities

• Manage project scope, timelines, budgets, dependencies, milestones, and resources.
• Lead Workday, HRIS, and Payroll implementation, enhancement, and optimization projects.
• Coordinate with HR, Payroll, Benefits, Compensation, Talent Acquisition, Finance, IT, and vendors.
• Oversee testing, data migration, integrations, payroll readiness, deployment planning, and post-go-live support.
• Establish RAID processes and proactively identify risks with mitigation plans.
• Facilitate governance activities, steering committee meetings, and executive reporting.
• Support stakeholder engagement, change management, user adoption, training, and vendor management.

Skills

Workday implementations

Payroll systems

HRIS deployments

Cross-functional PM

Governance & reporting

stakeholder communication

Education

PMP or Scrum Master certification

Tools

Microsoft Project

Teams

SharePoint

Office Suite

ADP

UKG

Oracle HCM

Job description

KellyMitchell Group is seeking a Project Manager for Workday & Payroll Transformation to join our client’s team on a 6-month contract. This 100% remote role is open to candidates in the United States and focuses on leading Workday, HRIS, and Payroll transformation initiatives across enterprise HR systems.

You will manage scope, timelines, budgets, and dependencies; drive data migration, testing, and deployment planning; and coordinate with HR, Payroll, Finance, IT, and vendors.