Payroll Implementation Project Manager Global Payroll Operate - Implementations - open location

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US – Global Payroll Operate – Implementations – Tax Services Manager

Ernst & Young LLP’s Tax GCR and EDGE practices are made up of teams of professionals providing specific tax technical services to US and global clients. EDGE stands for Exceptional Delivery and Growth Engine because this team operates in a technical environment with deep process and service delivery experience that distinguishes the EY organization in the marketplace. 

The opportunity
Our Global Payroll Operate practice focuses on helping our clients effectively manage their global payroll needs proactively and responsibly in 150+ countries. Our quality service and technical network enable you to help clients reduce inefficiencies, mitigate risk and drive process improvement within their payroll functions. We believe that by managing clients’ payroll obligations, we can make a critical difference, and you’ll be at the heart of this mission.

Our market-leading approach combines extensive local payroll service experience with a standard global payroll compliance and implementation methodology. With engagements involving a few countries or many, you will have the opportunity to provide clients an integrated, consistent, quality service that unlocks the potential of the payroll function across the entire process.

 

Your key responsibilities

As a Manager in Payroll Operate focused on implementation, you will help lead global payroll implementations. You will supervise the design, implementation and smooth transition to new global payroll operate model for our medium and large clients. You will also drive or support our effort in continuous innovation, building our next generation payroll solutions, and enhance our project delivery tools. Capabilities include medium to large payroll project management, risk control, process design and procedure documentation. Governance of payroll implementation is key, and you will lead the global country teams utilizing our one global methodology throughout our global payroll implementation life cycle to mitigate project risk.

 

• Be the global project manager for mid-sized to large-sized clients and implementations, which will require strong ownership, project management, issue and risk controls, decisions tracking, status reporting and deliverable management, including the escalation of client, central project support teams and internal country issues
• Manage project escalations and ask/refer to senior implementation team members for help
• Know and utilize global methodology payroll leading practices
• Be involved in thought leadership development 
• Provide/drive innovation and continuous improvement for our EY global payroll tools
• Identify opportunities to improve our project delivery tools and templates
• Leverage Global Payroll Operate tools, technology, methodology and processes
• Coach and mentor junior implementation team members
• Support sales support process related to central implementation

 

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