Project Manager

Lead delivery of a high-profile PayGlobal integration into Workday

Initial 6-month contract with strong extension potential

Drive cutover planning and execution for a business-critical payroll programme

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead the delivery planning and cutover activities for a major payroll transformation programme.

The project involves integrating PayGlobal with Workday and establishing the processes, environments, and governance required to support a successful deployment. A key focus of this role will be developing and managing a highly detailed cutover plan, coordinating dependencies across business and technology teams, and ensuring a controlled transition through testing, sandbox deployment, and production readiness.

This role requires a hands-on Project Manager who is comfortable working in complex environments and can bring structure, rigour, and clarity to a critical programme of work.

What You'll Be Doing

Lead the end-to-end project delivery of a payroll transformation initiative

Develop and maintain a detailed cutover plan with clear milestones, dependencies, owners, and contingencies

Coordinate the deployment of solutions into sandbox and production environments

Manage project scope, schedule, risks, issues, and governance processes

Drive project planning across Payroll, HR, Technology, Data, and vendor teams

Facilitate project working groups, steering committees, and stakeholder forums

Ensure all testing, readiness, reconciliation, and deployment activities are planned and executed successfully

Manage cutover rehearsals and support go-live preparation activities

Track progress and communicate project status to senior stakeholders

What You'll Bring

Proven experience delivering complex technology or business transformation projects

Strong project planning and delivery management skills

Demonstrated experience developing detailed cutover and deployment plans

Experience managing multiple workstreams, dependencies, and stakeholders

Strong risk, issue, and governance management capability

Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills

Ability to work effectively across business and technical teams

Highly Desirable

Payroll transformation project experience

PayGlobal experience

Workday implementation or integration experience

Payroll remediation or Holidays Act programme experience

Experience managing enterprise system deployments and go-live activities

What We're Looking For

You'll be a delivery-focused Project Manager who thrives in complex environments and enjoys bringing structure to large-scale transformation programmes. You will be equally comfortable operating at a strategic level with senior stakeholders and at a detailed level managing cutover activities and project execution.

Apply Now

If you have a track record of successfully delivering complex transformation projects and are confident leading cutover planning and execution, we'd love to hear from you.

Reference Number: 145792

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