Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ROCKCREST is seeking a senior HRIS implementation leader to provide strategic leadership and end-to-end project management for a complex ADP Next Gen implementation. The role owns the implementation roadmap, coordinates cross-functional workstreams, oversees data migration, integrations, testing, deployment readiness, change management, compliance, and vendor accountability across multiple employer entities and employee populations.
Responsibilities
- Own the overall implementation strategy, project roadmap, timeline, critical path, milestones, and deliverables
- Translate business objectives and implementation requirements into an actionable project plan
- Establish the project governance structure, including steering committee meetings, workstream meetings, escalation procedures, and decision-making protocols
- Define project roles and responsibilities across internal stakeholders, ADP resources, consultants, and third-party vendors
- Serve as the primary point of accountability throughout the implementation lifecycle
- Provide strategic guidance to executive sponsors and functional leaders regarding project priorities, risks, resource needs, and key decisions
- Ensure the implementation remains aligned with organizational objectives, operational requirements, and go-live expectations
- Develop and maintain project plans, workstream schedules, responsibility matrices, status reports, decision logs, and project documentation
- Maintain a comprehensive risk, action, issue, and dependency log and drive items through resolution
- Monitor project scope, budget, resources, deliverables, and timeline performance
- Establish and manage formal scope and change-control processes
- Identify project risks, competing priorities, resource constraints, and interdependencies before they affect delivery
- Escalate critical issues with clear recommendations, business impact assessments, and proposed resolutions
- Facilitate executive steering committee meetings and communicate project health, accomplishments, risks, and upcoming decisions
- Hold internal teams, ADP, and other project partners accountable for commitments and deliverables
- Coordinate activities across Human Resources, Payroll, Benefits, Time and Attendance, Finance, IT, and other impacted business functions
- Lead requirements-gathering and process-design sessions with functional stakeholders
- Ensure business requirements are complete, documented, prioritized, approved, and traceable throughout the implementation
- Manage dependencies among configuration, integrations, data conversion, testing, training, communications, and deployment activities
- Facilitate timely stakeholder decisions and resolve conflicts among competing business requirements
- Confirm that the future-state solution supports the needs of multiple employer entities and complex employee populations
- Serve as the senior client-side advisor and primary liaison to the ADP implementation team
- Evaluate implementation recommendations and ensure proposed solutions align with documented business requirements
- Oversee the design and implementation of applicable modules, including:
- Core Human Resources
- Payroll and General Ledger
- Benefits Administration
- Time and Attendance
- Recruiting
- Performance Management
- Expense Management
- Coordinate internal and vendor resources responsible for configuration, interfaces, data migration, testing, and deployment
- Challenge proposed solutions when they introduce unnecessary complexity, operational risk, or process inefficiency
- Ensure configuration decisions, business rules, approvals, and outstanding items are properly documented
- Recommend process improvements and opportunities to use standard ADP functionality effectively
- Lead the overall conversion strategy and migration plan from Paycom to ADP
- Coordinate data ownership, extraction, cleansing, mapping, validation, reconciliation, and approval activities
- Establish data-quality standards and ensure accountable owners are assigned to each data domain
- Oversee the conversion of employee, payroll, benefits, accrual, historical, and reporting data
- Coordinate integration requirements among ADP, Finance, benefits vendors, timekeeping systems, and other third-party platforms
- Track data and integration issues through resolution and confirm readiness before each testing cycle and production conversion
- Develop the overall testing strategy, schedule, entry and exit criteria, and approval process
- Coordinate system integration testing, payroll parallel testing, regression testing, and user acceptance testing
- Ensure test scenarios represent all employer entities, employee populations, pay groups, union requirements, prevailing wage rules, tipped employees, and other complex business conditions
- Assign testing responsibilities and monitor completion, defects, retesting, and formal signoffs
- Lead go-live readiness assessments across configuration, data, integrations, testing, security, training, communications, and support
- Develop the cutover plan, including task ownership, sequencing, dependencies, contingency planning, and go/no-go criteria
- Facilitate formal go-live decisions with executive sponsors and functional leaders
- Develop and oversee the project’s change management and stakeholder engagement strategy
- Assess organizational impacts and identify readiness risks across affected functions and employee groups
- Coordinate communications for executives, managers, employees, and project stakeholders
- Ensure training plans and materials support administrators, payroll teams, managers, employees, and other end users
- Monitor adoption and readiness throughout the implementation
- Establish a post-go-live support model, escalation process, stabilization plan, and knowledge-transfer approach
- Ensure payroll, tax, benefits, timekeeping, security, and employment compliance requirements are incorporated into project planning and solution decisions
- Coordinate subject matter experts responsible for validating earnings, deductions, taxes, accruals, union rules, prevailing wage requirements, and tipped employee processes
- Confirm that appropriate controls, approvals, audit procedures, and reconciliations are established
- Ensure reporting, dashboards, analytics, and compliance requirements are documented, tested, and approved before go-live
- Identify operational risks introduced by new processes or system changes and coordinate mitigation plans
Skills
- • Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, Human Resources, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
- • Seven or more years of experience leading complex HRIS, payroll, or enterprise technology implementations
- • Demonstrated success managing full-cycle ADP implementations from project initiation through stabilization
- • Strong knowledge of ADP Next Gen and its implementation methodology
- • Experience managing implementations involving multiple employer entities, pay groups, jurisdictions, and complex employee populations
- • Experience coordinating payroll, benefits, time and attendance, general ledger, data conversion, reporting, security, and integration workstreams
- • Strong understanding of payroll operations, HRIS processes, benefits administration, timekeeping, data migration, and testing
- • Experience managing third-party vendors and holding implementation partners accountable for project commitments
- • Advanced project planning, risk management, issue resolution, and executive reporting capabilities
- • Strong facilitation, negotiation, decision-making, and stakeholder management skills
- • Ability to communicate complex project and system issues clearly to both technical and nontechnical audiences
- • Advanced Excel and data-analysis skills
- • Ability to travel to company locations as project needs require
- • Experience migrating from Paycom or another major HCM platform is strongly preferred
- • PMP, PgMP, Prosci, or comparable project or change management certification is preferred
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