Strategic Payroll Implementation Specialist (Contract)

GreenLight Workforce Solutions Inc; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

GreenLight Workforce Solutions Inc seeks a Payroll Implementation Support Specialist to drive the deployment of a new payroll provider. The role collaborates with Payroll, HR, Finance, Engineering/Product, and vendor teams across data migration, configuration validation, and testing.

The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with complex payroll implementations, multi-state U.S. payroll, and high-volume hourly workforces, with comfort coordinating technical workstreams and system integrations.

Qualifications

• 5–8+ years of experience in payroll operations, payroll systems, payroll implementation, or payroll implementation support.

Responsibilities

• Support the payroll implementation project plan, including workstream tracking, milestone management, dependency tracking, issue/risk logs, and status updates.
• Coordinate across Payroll, HR, Finance, Engineering/Product, the payroll provider, and any implementation partners to keep workstreams moving.
• Support requirements validation, payroll process documentation, system readiness, and operational handoff planning.
• Assist with payroll data migration, mapping, cleansing, validation, and reconciliation.
• Support validation of payroll configurations, including earnings and deduction codes, tax setup, payroll calendars, worker setup, and payroll processing rules.
• Coordinate with Engineering/Product and vendor technical teams on the integration between GreenLight’s platform and the payroll provider.
• Support validation of key data flows between GreenLight’s platform and the payroll provider, including worker records, payroll inputs, payroll results, tax/deduction data, payment status, and reporting outputs.
• Support user acceptance testing, integration testing, and parallel payroll testing.
• Investigate discrepancies during testing, document root causes, and track issues through resolution.
• Support cutover planning, go-live readiness, payroll calendar alignment, and post-implementation stabilization.
• Develop process documentation, testing materials, cutover checklists, job aids, and knowledge transfer materials for ongoing payroll operations.
• Provide hands‑on support during hypercare for the first payroll cycles after go-live.

Skills

Payroll operations

Payroll systems

Payroll implementation

Multi-state payroll

Data validation

Excel skills

Cross-functional coordination

Documentation

Testing

Issue resolution

Vendor coordination

Tools

API integrations

HRIS integrations

Data mapping

Sandbox testing

Testing scripts

Job description

GreenLight Workforce Solutions Inc seeks a Payroll Implementation Support Specialist to drive the deployment of a new payroll provider. The role collaborates with Payroll, HR, Finance, Engineering/Product, and vendor teams across data migration, configuration validation, and testing.

The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with complex payroll implementations, multi-state U.S. payroll, and high-volume hourly workforces, with comfort coordinating technical workstreams and system integrations.