Senior Project Manager
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Job Title: Senior Project Manager - UKG/Kronos Workforce Management (Finance)
Location: Anywhere in the US
Duration: Long-term
Job Description:
- Acts as the PM representing the Finance organization, likely partnering closely with the CFO's team.
- Leads implementation activities related to timekeeping, payroll, labor costing, financial controls, and downstream financial impacts.
- Guides business stakeholders through adoption and process changes associated with the Kronos/UKG platform.
- These are not pure PM roles. The ideal candidates are likely business-savvy implementation PMs who have previously led UKG/Kronos and/or Workday transformations, rather than traditional PMs who only manage schedules and status reports.
Key Responsibilities:
- Drive project planning, execution, risk management, and stakeholder communication.
- Coordinate Finance, Payroll, IT, and vendor teams.
- Ensure payroll and labor-related processes are configured and tested appropriately.
- Facilitate requirements gathering, process design, testing, training, and go-live readiness.
- Manage project timelines, dependencies, and issue resolution.
Minimum Education and Experience:
- No degree or certification requirement is stated by the client.
- Strong Project Management experience leading large-scale enterprise software implementations.
- Subject matter expertise in UKG/Kronos Time & Attendance.
- Subject matter expertise in payroll processes.
- Subject matter expertise in workforce management systems.
- Subject matter expertise in finance operations.
- 8+ years' Project Management experience (per the target profile).
- Multiple UKG/Kronos implementations (per the target profile).
- Strong executive stakeholder management (per the target profile).
- Able to work at both the strategic and detailed execution levels (per the target profile).
Preferred Qualifications:
- Ideally possesses Workday Finance and Payroll experience.
- Healthcare industry experience preferred.
- Healthcare provider experience preferred (per the target profile).
Soft Skills:
- Strong executive stakeholder management and communication.
- Business-savvy able to guide stakeholders through adoption and process change, not only manage a plan.
- Comfortable operating at both strategic and detailed execution levels.
Skills:
Skill
Required/
Desired
| Project Management experience (per the target profile). | Required | 8+ | Years |
| Project Management leading large-scale enterprise software implementations. | Required | Years | |
| UKG/Kronos Time & Attendance subject matter expertise. | Required | Years | |
| Multiple UKG/Kronos implementations delivered. | Required | Years | |
| Payroll processes subject matter expertise. | Required | Years |