Senior Project Manager(/ GC)

Title: Senior Project Manager
Location: Remote (CA)
Duration: 12 months.  
Visa: / GC

Need at least 5 years of PeopleSoft Workforce Administration (WFA) experience

Senior Project Manager – PeopleSoft Workforce Administration (WFA)
Project Focus: PeopleSoft Workforce Administration (WFA) and Mass Compensation Initiative

Position Summary:

• Lead enterprise PeopleSoft HCM initiatives focused on Workforce Administration and compensation-related processes.
• Manage project delivery from initiation through deployment, stabilization, and project closure.
• Coordinate business, technical, HR, payroll, vendor, and stakeholder resources across multiple workstreams.
• Serve as the primary project leader responsible for execution, delivery, stakeholder engagement, and project outcomes.

Required Qualifications:

• 8-10+ years of project management experience leading enterprise application initiatives.
• 5+ years managing PeopleSoft HCM projects in large, complex organizations.
• Demonstrated experience delivering Workforce Administration (WFA) implementations or enhancements.
• Experience managing HR, Payroll, Benefits, and cross-functional stakeholder relationships.
• Proven success leading requirements, design, testing, deployment, and change management activities.
• Strong executive communication, governance, risk management, and issue resolution skills.
• Experience managing project budgets, schedules, vendors, dependencies, and resource plans.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex enterprise initiatives, anticipate downstream impacts, manage risks and dependencies, and drive projects to successful execution.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor''s degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, Computer Science, Human Resources, Project Management, or a related field; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Master''s degree preferred.
• PMP, PMI-ACP, Certified Scrum Master (CSM), or other relevant project management certification preferred.
• Experience leading PeopleSoft Mass Compensation or compensation-related initiatives.
• Knowledge of Job Data, Compensation, Position Management, and effective-dated transactions.
• Experience supporting payroll-impacting releases and downstream integration activities.
• PeopleSoft HCM 9.2 experience in large enterprise environments.
• Higher education, public sector, healthcare, or unionized workforce experience.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent workstreams within a complex portfolio.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Knowledge of PeopleSoft HCM Workforce Administration business processes and functionality.
• Knowledge of HR, Payroll, Benefits, Compensation, and Position Management processes.
• Knowledge of payroll-impacting HR transactions and associated testing, deployment, and operational readiness requirements.
• Knowledge of effective-dated transactions and their impact on downstream systems, interfaces, and payroll processing.
• Knowledge of project management methodologies, governance practices, and SDLC frameworks.
• Knowledge of testing, deployment, change management, and organizational readiness activities.
• Strong project planning, scheduling, budgeting, forecasting, and resource management skills.
• Strong risk, issue, dependency, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong facilitation skills for executive leadership, business stakeholders, campus partners, and technical teams.
• Strong relationship management skills with executive leadership, business partners, campus stakeholders, and technical teams.
• Strong requirements management, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Strong vendor management and consultant oversight skills.
• Strong verbal, written, and presentation communication skills.
• Ability to lead large-scale PeopleSoft HCM initiatives in complex enterprise environments.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and competing priorities while maintaining delivery commitments.
• Ability to translate business objectives into actionable project plans and deliverables.
• Ability to build consensus among business, technical, HR, payroll, and campus stakeholders.
• Ability to assess downstream business, technical, operational, integration, and payroll impacts when evaluating project decisions and issues.
• Ability to proactively identify issues, drive resolution, and escalate risks when appropriate.
• Ability to communicate complex business and technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• Ability to take ownership of project outcomes and drive initiatives through execution and delivery.
• Ability to drive accountability, decision-making, and issue resolution across project teams.
• Ability to work independently with minimal oversight in a fast-paced and complex environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and manage project plans, schedules, milestones, budgets, and resource allocations.
• Facilitate project governance, steering committees, status reporting, and executive communications.
• Manage project scope, risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and decision tracking.
• Coordinate requirements, design reviews, testing activities, deployment readiness, and cutover planning.
• Partner with HR, Payroll, Technical, Security, Integration, and business teams to achieve project objectives.
• Ensure project deliverables meet quality standards, business requirements, and organizational goals.
• Drive stakeholder alignment and remove obstacles impacting project success and delivery timelines.
• Oversee vendor performance, contract deliverables, and consultant accountability.