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Guidehouse · 16 hours ago

HR and Payroll Systems Modernization Portfolio Project Manager

US - VA, Arlington

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$130K/yr - $216K/yr

6+ years exp

Guidehouse is a consulting firm that focuses on technology consulting and project management. They are seeking a Project Manager to manage HR and Payroll modernization initiatives, including data migration and system integrations, while providing updates and insights to senior leadership.

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No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Manage individual projects under the Strategic Project Management Office, including HR and Payroll modernization initiatives, data migration efforts, system integrations, and enterprise modernization projects

Draft and maintain integrated project plans, executive strategic roadmaps , risk management strategies, and cross-functional timelines, resource plans, and critical paths

Provide regular program updates, risks, concerns, and executive-level insights to senior leadership

Coordinate with application leads, functional owners, integrators, and technical teams to ensure dependencies, system impacts, and timelines are fully understood and managed

Facilitate recurring program meetings, workshops, and working sessions to drive alignment, decision-making, and issue resolution

Publish agendas, meeting minutes, action items, risks, and decisions for all PMO-led meetings

Maintain a comprehensive RAID log and a formal Risk Management Plan encompassing resource risks, technical risks, data migration risks, workaround strategies, and design impacts

Track more than 100+ system integrations (Payroll inbound/outbound, HR application changes, SAP, UAP, EEB, PIM, S/4HANA) across multiple modernization efforts

Manage stakeholder expectations and maintain an up-to-date stakeholder register across all active projects

Prepare communications, briefings, status reports, and executive‑ready presentation material

Support coordination across parallel modernization initiatives such as Retirement Modernization, SAP-to-Cloud Migration, SSoT data model changes, HR BI modernization, performance modernization, JBM decouple, ATS modernization, and related HR/Payroll transformation efforts

Qualification

PMP CertificationAgile MethodologiesSAP S/4HANAProject ManagementData MigrationHR Technology ImplementationSaaS Payroll SolutionsBI ModernizationStakeholder ManagementRisk ManagementServiceNow HR WorkflowsCommunication SkillsCross-functional Team Leadership

Required

Minimum of six (6)+ years of relevant experience, examples include: program or project management supporting enterprise‑scale, multi‑year IT modernization or business transformation initiatives for payroll or HR system portfolios

A Bachelor's degree is required

US Citizenship is required due to client project requirements

A PMP- Project Management Professional certification is required

Proven ability to manage large programs with multiple workstreams, high interdependencies, and executive visibility

Strong command of industry-standard PM methodologies (PMP, Agile, hybrid approaches) and enterprise project management tools

Demonstrated success in: Building and maintaining complex project schedules, Managing cross-functional teams, Leading executive-level briefings, Facilitating working sessions and driving decision-making

Excellent organizational, documentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills

Ability to anticipate issues, conduct risk analysis, and build mitigation plans across technical, functional, and schedule dimensions

Experience in IT PMO for a large payroll technology implementation or a large human capital management technology implementation

Experience coordinating with multiple technical and business teams simultaneously (HR, Payroll, Financial Systems, Data Engineering, Integration Platforms, Cloud Operations)

Ability to work with highly complex legacy-to-cloud transition programs, particularly those involving parallel operations and large-scale data migration

Preferred

Agile Certification (such as PMI-ACP, Certified ScrumMaster, or equivalent) is preferred

Hands-on familiarity with ServiceNow HR workflows or HR process modernization initiatives

Prior involvement in implementing Single Source of Truth (SSoT) data architectures

Change management, communications strategy, or organizational readiness expertise

Federal consulting experience and/or managing PMO environments with technical SMEs and analyst support teams

Technology certifications relative to IT Modernization initiatives or associate disciplines such as (but not limited to) AWS Cloud Practitioner, Azure Fundamentals, COMPTIA Security+, CompTIA Cloud Essentials, FinOps Practitioner, etc

Direct experience with SaaS Payroll solutions (Ceridian, Workday, Oracle, SAP SuccessFactors, or similar)

Experience delivering analytics of BI modernization efforts (Databricks, modern reporting platforms, SAP Business Warehouse, etc)

Experience implementing SAP for Human Capital Management to include migrating from SAP-HCM to SAP S/4 HANA