Payroll Strategy and Operate Senior Manager – HCaaS Job Description 5-20-25
Are you a detail-oriented individual seeking a new opportunity to leverage your skills with a great organization? Are you passionate about delivering goals to your client that goes above and beyond their expectations? Does the opportunity to work with the world’s leading businesses excite you? If so, we are looking for an accomplished, energetic Payroll professional to lead our Payroll teams that serve our large and complex clients.
Deloitte’s Human Capital Offering Portfolio
Our Human Capital practice is at the forefront of transforming the nature of work. As converging forces reshape industries, our team uniquely addresses the complexities of work, workforce, and workplace dynamics. We leverage sector-specific insights and cross-domain perspectives to help organizations tackle their most challenging workforce issues and align talent strategies with their strategic visions. Our practice is renowned for making work better for humans and humans better at work. Be part of this exciting era of change and join us on this transformative journey.
The Payroll Operations Team
In Deloitte’s Human Capital practice, we help our clients exploit new technologies, reduce costs and improve operating effectiveness through process improvements, shared services, outsourcing and employee self-service, by helping them drive the value this delivers and help the business achieve its strategic objectives in performance and growth. Our Payroll Operations Team helps align the needs and priorities of the client organization with those of its workforce, while ensuring the long-term success of the organization.
Recruiting for this role ends on September 21, 2025
Work you’ll do:
As a Payroll Strategy and Operate Senior Manager, you should expect to be involved in the following:
- Guiding clients to analyze the current state of the payroll processes, while helping them identify pain points and offering possible solutions
- Advising clients on technology options that can help them improve their overall Payroll function while leveraging available automation and GenAI tools and capabilities
- Demonstrating your leadership experience, being self-accountable to the outputs of the team
- Taking responsibility for leading teams, delivering work and designing the work effort
- Emerging business advisor, Project/Workstream Manager, Leader of others, sales support.
- You will be a key member of our leadership team which means you will be required to help with the strategic planning and growth of our practice by actively participating in the sales process.
- You will also provide input into how to best select, develop and grow our people.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree
- 8+ years of related experience in Payroll operations and sales
- 8+ years of Consulting experience
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience leading requirements gathering workshops or facilitating meetings
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience participating in the vendor selection process (client and supplier sides) including RFPs, RFIs, scoring and evaluating products and services
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience leading teams in the full lifecycle of projects including Business Analysis, Functional Specification, System Configuration, Design, Testing
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience with payroll software products such as ADP, UKG (formerly UltiPro), Workday, Oracle Cloud, or SAP/SuccessFactors and system infrastructure
- Ability to travel up to 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectorsyou serve
- Limited immigration sponsorship may be available
Preferred Qualifications:
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience working with global fortune 500 firms
- Minimum of 8 years of experience working with HR and/or Workforce Management (WFM) payroll functions and processes, with a strong understanding of business needs and challenges while demonstrating strong analytical skills and attention to detail
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience developing and mentoring junior staff members
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience interacting at all levels within a client organization
- Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Visio and PowerPoint, with at least 2 years’ experience creating advanced Excel models (e.g., pivot tables, VLOOKUP, data analysis) and developing client-ready PowerPoint presentations for executive-level audiences.
The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $158,900 - $292,900.
You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.
Possible Locations: Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Birmingham, Boca Raton, Boise, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Costa Mesa, Dallas, Davenport, Dayton, Denver, Des Moines, Detroit, Fort Worth, Fresno, Grand Rapids, Harrisburg, Hartford, Houston, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Jersey City, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Louisville, McLean, Memphis, Miami, Midland, Minneapolis, Morristown, Nashville, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, Pleasanton, Pittsburgh, Portland, Princeton, Raleigh, Richmond, Rochester, Rosslyn, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, St. Louis, Stamford, Tampa, Tempe, Tulsa, Washington DC
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