Senior Project Manager ERP / Benefits Operations

Location: Atlanta, GA

Duration: Long-Term

Work Arrangement: Local candidates preferred; must be able to come into the office occasionally

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead complex projects and issue-resolution initiatives involving ERP/Workday configuration, employee and payroll data, integrations, benefits administration, transaction processing, vendor systems, and business processes.

The ideal candidate will coordinate cross-functional teams across functional and technical areas, payroll, finance, business analysis, and third-party vendors. This role will drive issues from identification and prioritization through root-cause analysis, corrective action, testing, production deployment, reconciliation, employee remediation, and final closure.

Key Responsibilities

Establish and manage a centralized project/issue backlog, including business impact, severity, affected population, owners, dependencies, target dates, and closure criteria.
Lead cross-functional teams responsible for resolving complex business and technical issues.
Establish clear action items, owners, deadlines, and accountability across project teams.
Track commitments, address roadblocks, follow up on overdue actions, and escalate risks when necessary.
Maintain detailed meeting notes, decisions, action items, open issues, and completion dates.
Develop and maintain integrated project schedules across functional, technical, payroll, finance, and vendor workstreams.
Define project roles, responsibilities, dependencies, and ownership.
Lead issue-triage, working sessions, decision meetings, and executive status meetings.
Coordinate root-cause analysis involving Workday configuration, source data, integration logic, vendor processing, transaction timing, and business processes.
Manage dependencies across integrations and ensure teams do not implement conflicting solutions.
Coordinate test planning, test data, expected results, regression testing, vendor validation, and business acceptance.
Manage change control and release readiness from non-production environments through production deployment.
Validate that corrected integrations reconcile with Workday payroll and benefits results.
Ensure affected employee records and financial transactions are properly addressed.
Track risks, decisions, overdue actions, resource constraints, and unresolved ownership.
Provide concise executive reporting covering issue aging, affected populations, financial exposure, testing status, blocked decisions, and resolution trends.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in a related field from an accredited college or university.
Minimum 3 years of recent, relevant project management experience with increasing levels of responsibility.
Eligibility to sit for the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
Strong project management, communication, organization, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills.
Experience coordinating cross-functional business and technical teams.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with ERP implementations, particularly Workday/HCM.
Experience implementing or supporting HR, payroll, benefits, or HCM business processes.
Experience working with government organizations or public-sector environments.
6+ years of project management experience supporting business processes.
Experience with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies.
Experience implementing structured project/program management processes.
Hands-on experience with project management tools such as:
- Jira
- MS Project
- Asana
PMP or CAPM certification preferred.
Experience working with integrations, data reconciliation, testing, release management, and vendor coordination is highly desirable.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a Senior Project Manager / Program Manager who can bridge business and technical teams and take complex issues from discovery to verified resolution. Strong candidates will have experience with Workday/ERP, HCM, payroll, benefits, integrations, SDLC, project governance, testing, and executive reporting.

Recruiter Screening Keywords

Senior Project Manager, Project Manager, Program Manager, Workday, HCM, ERP, Benefits, Payroll, Integrations, SDLC, Jira, MS Project, Asana, PMP, CAPM, Data Reconciliation, Release Management, Change Management, UAT, Government, Public Sector

Note: This is a long-term opportunity in Atlanta, GA. Candidates should be local to the Atlanta area and available to report to the office occasionally.

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