Hris Project Manager

Overview
We are seeking an experienced
Project Manager
to lead the implementation and optimisation of
HR and Payroll
solutions.
This role requires a strong blend of project leadership, stakeholder engagement, data analysis and change management expertise to deliver scalable, compliant, and user-centric HR technology solutions.
As a project management consultant, you will be responsible for the delivery of the defined work packages, leading and managing the full project life cycle of HR and Payroll system implementation for our clients, while providing effective management to teams and give guidance to our clients and their teams.
Responsibilities
Project Leadership & Delivery
Manage full lifecycle of HRIS and Payroll implementation project from planning through post-go-live support.
Develop and maintain detailed project plans, ensuring alignment with regulatory timelines, internal controls, and business objectives.
Lead risk management, issue resolution, and change control processes, ensuring transparency and accountability.
Monitor implementation progress, report on project milestones, and support post-launch issue resolution.
Examine relationships between problems and issues, continually probe and initiate research to identify critical problems.
Establish clear goals and priorities needed to assess performance.
Identify, quantify and manage issues impacting delivery of projects.
Stakeholder Engagement & Team Collaboration
Serve as the primary point of contact between HR, IT, Finance, Compliance, and external vendors, acting as the primary liaison between business units and technical teams.
Work alongside business SMES e.g.
HR/payroll specialists, IT developers, and project managers to ensure successful project delivery.
Facilitate workshops to gather business requirements, define priorities, and ensure alignment with enterprise goals.
Understand change management methodologies and identify change activities/interventions to minimise disruption during rollout and facilitate user adoption.
Assist in the creation of training materials, lead end-user training sessions and knowledge transfer.
Lead cross-functional teams, to ensure clear roles, responsibilities, and performance expectations.
HRIS Functional & Technical Oversight
Oversee HRIS and Payroll system configuration, data migration, and integrations with payroll, benefits, and financial systems.
Coordinate and support user acceptance testing (UAT), ensuring test coverage aligns with regulatory and operational needs.
Collaborate with analysts and developers to ensure system design meets both functional and compliance requirements.
Support data migration, system configuration, and user acceptance testing.
Analyse HR and payroll data, identifying trends or anomalies, and ensuring data integrity throughout the project lifecycle.
Governance, Compliance & Continuous Improvement
Ensure all project activities adhere to internal audit, data privacy, and regulations (e.g., GDPR).
Apply structured project methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid) and adapt based on project complexity and stakeholder needs.
Conduct post-implementation reviews, capture lessons learned and contribute to continuous improvement of delivery practices.
Support the development of internal project management standards and tools tailored to the financial services environment.
Manage all project governance requirements, reporting risks, benefits and measures for success through the appropriate governance channels.
Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
Essential skills
Excellent client-facing skills – excellent communications, stakeholder management and engagement
People management skills – be able to build connections,
Team work and emotional intelligence – be collaborative and understand how to engage teams
Innovative individual – a bold thinker and doer, matching creativity with vigilance
Desired skills
Additional course or certification in Business Consulting
Certified functional consultant in any one specific domain
Project Management qualification
Experience
HRIS and Payroll experience e.g.
Workday, SuccessFactors or similar
Understand HR & Payroll operations e.g.
employee onboarding, offboarding, leave management, performance management, and regulatory compliance.
Proven experience in implementing, upgrading, or migrating payroll and HR systems, including legacy and cloud-based platforms.
Skilled in analysing large volumes of HR and payroll data, identifying trends or anomalies, and ensuring data integrity throughout the project lifecycle.
Experience and knowledge applying change management activities/interventions to drive adoption and minimise disruption across business units.
Strong comprehension of the project management lifecycle and experience with all stages of the product development lifecycle (concept to launch)
Benefits
At Expleo, we are committed to providing a competitive salary and substantial benefits offering with unique wellbeing, financial and employee recognition programmes.
We pride ourselves on our diverse and inclusive culture and offer a variety of family friendly policies and enhanced leave to help you achieve a healthy work life balance.
By providing significant learning and development opportunities, we encourage individual growth and success throughout your career with us.
Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges
We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
Competitive company benefits such as medical and dental insurance, pension, life assurance, employee wellbeing programme, sports and social events, birthday hampers and much more
Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and question the status quo.
"We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age".
At Expleo, we understand that many people experience impostor syndrome throughout their lifetime, please do not let this discourage you from applying for this role.
Our Talent Acquisition Team welcomes all CV's and will consider your application in line with the values, requirements and role competencies.
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