Senior Program Manager, Payroll Systems

• Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements
• 5+ years of experience delivering cross functional projects
• 5+ years of experience in program or project management
• 5+ years of experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business or related field

Does the challenge that comes from driving complex system implementations for one of the largest employers excite you? Do you enjoy working in an entrepreneurial environment and delivering innovative solutions that enable your team and stakeholders to do their jobs more effectively and accurately by streamlining existing processes by leveraging technology?

The Global Amazon Payroll Team is seeking a Senior Program Manager to help drive a long term program that will transition Amazon’s U.S. payroll system. This position is responsible for facilitating the successful deployment of this new application through collaboration with both our internal and external partners, as well as ensuring that we enhance and improve our existing processes and procedures through automation.

Your primary responsibilities within our Payroll Systems team will be to lead the strategy and development of the project plan, deployment schedules, and stakeholder engagement while looking for opportunities to optimize our existing integrations with both our upstream and downstream partners. Within this role, you will partner with our internal payroll team as well as our technical partners, HR, benefits, and more to gather requirements, assess existing system functionality vs. future state, and proactively identify gaps and drive solutions. The ability to work cross functionally and to identify areas of need is imperative to the continued growth and success of this initiative. Further, you will continue to drive continuous improvement post launch.

Successful candidates will have a project management background, have led complex large scale initiatives, be detail driven, have excellent problem solving abilities, and have experience working with HCM/Payroll systems. You should not only be passionate about delivering extensible, on-time solutions, but should also be obsessed with contributing to the development of high-performance teams through rigorous planning, disciplined attention to detail, continuous process improvement and mentorship. You should have experience working with SME’s across multiple geographies, and using data to advance ideas and influence others. Finally, thinking big and setting a bold direction for the future is a must.

• Project Management accreditation
• Successful delivery of complex, large scale projects with multiple impacted systems
• A strong desire to exceed expectations and strong interpersonal skills, including persuasive written and oral communication skills
• Ability to successfully manage multiple competing priorities simultaneously
• Demonstrated ability of participating in milestone driven projects
• Experience with ADP Systems

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