Project Manager

Salary: $130 per hour

• Lead delivery of a high-profile PayGlobal integration into Workday
• Initial 6-month contract with strong extension potential
• Drive cutover planning and execution for a business-critical payroll programme

About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead the delivery planning and cutover activities for a major payroll transformation programme.
The project involves integrating PayGlobal with Workday and establishing the processes, environments, and governance required to support a successful deployment. A key focus of this role will be developing and managing a highly detailed cutover plan, coordinating dependencies across business and technology teams, and ensuring a controlled transition through testing, sandbox deployment, and production readiness.
This role requires a hands-on Project Manager who is comfortable working in complex environments and can bring structure, rigour, and clarity to a critical programme of work.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead the end-to-end project delivery of a payroll transformation initiative
• Develop and maintain a detailed cutover plan with clear milestones, dependencies, owners, and contingencies
• Coordinate the deployment of solutions into sandbox and production environments
• Manage project scope, schedule, risks, issues, and governance processes
• Drive project planning across Payroll, HR, Technology, Data, and vendor teams
• Facilitate project working groups, steering committees, and stakeholder forums
• Ensure all testing, readiness, reconciliation, and deployment activities are planned and executed successfully
• Manage cutover rehearsals and support go-live preparation activities
• Track progress and communicate project status to senior stakeholders

What You'll Bring

• Proven experience delivering complex technology or business transformation projects
• Strong project planning and delivery management skills
• Demonstrated experience developing detailed cutover and deployment plans
• Experience managing multiple workstreams, dependencies, and stakeholders
• Strong risk, issue, and governance management capability
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Ability to work effectively across business and technical teams

Highly Desirable

• Payroll transformation project experience
• PayGlobal experience
• Workday implementation or integration experience
• Payroll remediation or Holidays Act programme experience
• Experience managing enterprise system deployments and go-live activities

What We're Looking For
You'll be a delivery-focused Project Manager who thrives in complex environments and enjoys bringing structure to large-scale transformation programmes. You will be equally comfortable operating at a strategic level with senior stakeholders and at a detailed level managing cutover activities and project execution.

Apply Now
If you have a track record of successfully delivering complex transformation projects and are confident leading cutover planning and execution, we'd love to hear from you.

Reference Number: 145792
Applicants must have the legal right to work in New Zealand.