Global Project Manager - Payroll

at  Thermo Fisher Scientific

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Project Manager delivers Payroll Transformation projects within the global payroll organization for country wide implementations of ADP GlobalView and a Time and Attendance solution. The successful candidate oversees quality, plan, time, resource allocation, benefits realization and cost. By ensuring that all projects adhere to the best practices and standard approaches for Thermo Fisher, the Project Manager ensures execution is controlled and goals are achieved on time. The Project Manager uses standard methodologies to enable the successful delivery of a broad scope of transformation changes across Thermo Fisher’s global footprint. Main responsibilities of the Project Manager include scope management; ; benefits and quality management; partner management; project planning including achievement management; risk and issue management; and vendor management. Integral to delivering these responsibilities will be financial management; maintaining risks, issues, assumptions, actions logs; resource forecasting; change control; dependency management; and project reporting.
These are highly visibility projects that will need someone with both strategic and execution skills, a proven track record of successful execution in the payroll space and the ability to work well with and influence internal and external partners.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree and work-related experience, required
• Extensive experience working in a progressive payroll position within a global delivery environment, required
• Advanced program or project management experience in the global payroll space, required
• Expert knowledge of ADP GlobalView/Celergo, Workday HCM/Time and/or mergers & acquisitions, required
• Strong leadership presence, required
• APAC, EMEA and LATAM payroll knowledge, preferred
• CPP/PMP a plus

• Establish and maintain a project plan.
• Ensure alignment of project scope and schedule to meet project objectives.
• Demonstrate wide-ranging experience and use professional concepts in developing resolutions to critical issues.
• Set standards and processes for the project and ensure all constituent are aligned.
• Ensure legal and compliance considerations are fully accounted for in all requirements.
• Facilitate project meetings on a regular basis.
• Manage small and large tasks and time allocations for multiple workstreams simultaneously.
• Provide project-related reporting and communications.
• Track project related expenses.
• Coordinate project closure to distill good practice and ensure lessons learned are logged.
• Ensure efficient change control methods and processes followed.
• Ability to coordinate across cross-functionally.