Senior Lead Product Owner / Workday Payroll

Outstanding long-term contract opportunity! A well-known Financial Services Company is looking for a Senior Product Owner/Workday Payroll in Minneapolis, MN or Charlotte, NC (Hybrid).

Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package! Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today's digital age. If you want to work for a company that is not only a household name, but also truly cares about satisfying customers' financial needs and helping people succeed financially, apply today.

• No C2C or third parties
  
  

Contract Duration: 24 Months

Required Skills & Experience

• 7 years of Product Management, product development, strategic planning, process management, change delivery, or agile product owner experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.
  
  

Desired Skills & Experience

• 3 years Agile experience.
• 7 years of HR Systems experience (e.g., Workday, Peoplesoft, SAP, ServiceNow HRSD (Human Resource Service Delivery), Oracle, or similar).
• 6 years of Workday Payroll experience leading a product team.
• 5 years of experience with SaaS (Software as a Service) based payroll vendors (e.g., ADP, Earned Wage Access, etc.).
• Experience implementing Workday Payroll functionality in US and Canada (international) preferred.
• 3 years of experience with ServiceNow HR Service Delivery (HRSD).
• Experience consulting, implementing, and owning Human Resource products and tools.
• Experience leading scrum teams in an Agile environment and strong Agile knowledge.
• Experience influencing and managing cross-functional work streams to execute initiatives with quality and on-time.
• Experience leading and facilitating workshops and discussions to effectively gather requirements and achieve a detailed understanding of client objectives and desired outcomes.
• Experience integrating systems with third-party service vendors.
  
  

What You Will Be Doing

• Advise leadership to develop or influence business plans, business requirements, direct product design and implementation for complex HR business and technical needs.
• Oversee overall product management and strategic focus for the most technical, complex, and diverse HR products and services.
• Lead the strategy and resolution of complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth understanding of potential synergies and opportunities companywide.
• Deliver solutions that are long-term, large scale, and require consideration of global market dynamics, trends, regulatory impact, and risk management.
• Provide vision, direction, and expertise to leadership on implementing innovative and significant business solutions that are strategically focused.
• Articulate the Payroll product vision, define scope, prioritize backlog, establish goals, and provide direction for teams to design, develop, and deliver technology and processes for updating, upgrading technologies and vendor relationships.
• Manage processes and routines needed to ensure that the product predictably delivers value, adjust planning in situations that may include financial, control, or process roadblocks.
• Inspect pre-release progress, recommend changes, and ensure timelines are met.
• Develop and monitor product roadmap and key performance indicators, identify improvement opportunities, and ensure regulatory and policy compliance.
• Ensure cross-functional dependencies and business readiness needs are articulated, managed, and addressed to successfully execute work with quality and on-time.
• Engage with leaders, stakeholders, subject matter experts, scrum masters, project managers and delivery team companywide.
• Serve as an expert advisor to executives on complex, visible, and diverse solutions.
  
  

Posted By: Jennifer Reynolds