Payroll Implementation Manager

Country Implementation Support

• Act as the main contact between business OUHRs, Payroll Vendor, local payroll team and coordinate local project activities including requirement gathering, review of data collected for vendor’s system setup, UAT, Parallel testing, go-live month and stabilization period.

• Ensure OUHR and Vendor Payroll Local team deliverables, and timelines are being met.

• Coordinate the first level of issues are being resolved and when it is escalated to ensure that it reported to the Global Payroll Project Manager to managed it on the central level.

Project Execution

• Drive the execution of implementation phases on the Local level: Discovery, Configuration, Testing (UAT, Parallel Run), and Go-Live.

• Monitor progress of each country’s implementation and escalate risks or delays to the Global Payroll Project Manager which will be highlight to the central stakeholders and leadership.

• Support the vendor and OUHR in data validation, system configuration, and payroll output review such as joining calls to bridge the vendor and the OUHR.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Facilitate communication between central and local stakeholders, including vendors, OUHR, IT, Finance team (for SAP S4/HANA), Workday support and integration team.  

• Conduct regular check-ins with OUHR to track readiness and resolve issues.

• Support change management and training efforts for local users for those that requires to use vendor system in approval payroll submission upon going-live.

Quality Assurance

• Ensure completeness and accuracy of requirement documentation, test cases, and sign-off forms.

• Review and validate payroll outputs, reports, and pay slips during parallel runs.

• Coordinate Go/No-Go decisions with OUHR, Vendors and central stakeholders.

Governance and Reporting

• Maintain project logs, risk registers, and implementation trackers together with the vendor on the assigned business units.

• Provide regular updates to the Global Payroll Project Manager on country-level progress and issues in the weekly call.

• Ensure compliance with project governance, documentation standards, and sign-off process is adhered.

• Involve in the preparation of documentation in the event of internal audit.