Senior Project Manager

TALENT Software Services; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

TALENT Software Services in Atlanta, GA is seeking a Senior Project Manager to develop and manage an integrated plan for resolving complex benefits-related issues involving Workday configuration, employee and payroll data, inbound and outbound integrations, transaction processing, vendor systems, and business procedures.

The Project Manager will coordinate cross-functional teams across DOAS, statewide ERP, payroll, finance, and benefit administrators, driving issues from identification to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field and three years of project management experience.
• Eligibility to sit for PMP certification.
• Experience with ERP systems, especially HR/payroll processes.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain a backlog of benefits issues with impact, severity, populations, integration, and deadlines.
• Lead cross-functional teams to resolve individual benefits issues and keep focus on outcomes.
• Obtain next steps, owners, and target dates; track commitments and escalate delays.
• Document decisions, questions, actions, owners, and dates in a shared location.
• Develop an integrated stabilization schedule across functional, technical, payroll, finance, and vendor workstreams.
• Set clear roles and accountable owners for all activities.
• Lead structured issue-triage, working, decision, and executive-status meetings.
• Coordinate data sources, Workday configuration, integration logic, and vendor processing.
• Manage dependencies among related integrations and prevent conflicting corrections.
• Coordinate test planning, test data, results, regression testing, and vendor validation.

Skills

PM experience

ERP experience

PM coordination

PMP/CAPM

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Job description

Job Title: Senior Project Manager

Job Location: Atlanta, GA 30334, The candidate must be local to Atlanta and be able to come to the office on occasion. Job Duration: 9 Months

• The client is seeking a Senior Project Manager to develop and manage an integrated plan for resolving complex benefits-related issues involving Workday configuration, employee and payroll data, inbound and outbound integrations, transaction processing, vendor systems, and business procedures.
• The Project Manager will coordinate work across DOAS, statewide ERP teams, functional and technical resources, payroll and finance teams, business analysts, and third-party benefit administrators.
• The position will drive issues from identification and prioritization through root-cause analysis, corrective action, testing, production deployment, reconciliation, employee remediation, and verified closure.
• The Project Manager must be able to establish accountability across organizations, identify dependencies, obtain decisions, and escalates risks that could affect employee benefits, payroll deductions, contributions, vendor funding, or regulatory obligations.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain a single authoritative backlog of benefits issues, including business impact, severity, affected population, integration, incident or change number, accountable owner, dependencies, target date, and closure criteria.
• Lead cross-functional teams assigned to resolve individual benefits issues. Keep each team focused on the defined issue, desired outcome, and work required for resolution.
• Obtain specific next steps, accountable owners, and target completion dates from assigned team members. Track each commitment through completion, follow up on missed dates, address obstacles, and escalates delays when necessary.
• Maintain meeting notes in a shared location where participants can clearly see what was discussed and agreed upon. Document decisions, open questions, assigned actions, responsible individuals, and completion dates.
• Develop and maintain an integrated stabilization schedule across functional, technical, payroll, finance, and vendor workstreams.
• Establish clear roles and responsibilities and secure accountable owners for all activities.
• Lead structured issue-triage, working, decision, and executive-status meetings.
• Coordinate investigation of source data, Workday configuration, integration logic, vendor processing, transaction timing, and business-process causes.
• Manage dependencies among related integrations and prevent separate teams from implementing conflicting corrections.
• Coordinate test planning, test data, expected results, regression testing, vendor validation, and business acceptance.
• Manage change-control and release-readiness activities from nonproduction environments through production deployment.
• Confirm that corrected integrations reconcile to Workday payroll and benefits results and that affected employees and financial transactions have been addressed.
• Track risks, decisions, overdue actions, resource constraints, and unresolved ownership; elevate promptly when commitments are not met.
• Provide concise executive reporting on issue aging, affected populations, financial exposure, testing progress, blocked decisions, and resolution trends.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field from an accredited college or university AND three years of recent relevant project management experience, with a progression in responsibility AND eligibility to sit for Project management Professional (PMP) certification.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience implementing an ERP system or program, particularly human capital administration
• Prior experience implementing business processes in a government organization
• Six or more years of related experience in project management coordinating and supporting business processes.
• Experience with structured development methodology SDLC
• Experience defining and implementing program/project management using tools and expertise in the practical adoption of SDLC methodologies using project management tools (Asana, MS Project, Jira).
• Certification as Professional Project Manager (PMP) or Certified associate in project management (CAPM).

Skill Matrix

• Recent and verified project management experience of large-scale projects Required 3 Years
• Prior experience implementing an ERP system or program, particularly human capital administration. Required 2 Years
• Related and verified experience in project management coordinating and supporting business processes. Required 6 Years
• Certification as Professional Project Manager (PMP) or Certified associate in project management (CAPM) Required 3 Years