The Role
Directs the strategy, roadmap, reliability, modernization, and operational support of payroll and workforce management applications. Leads integrations, production incidents, implementations, releases, cutovers, controls, security, audit readiness, vendors, budgets, and technical teams. Partners with Payroll, HR, Finance, Security, Audit, and integration stakeholders to ensure accurate, secure, and supportable U.S. and Canadian payroll technology.
Summary Generated by Built In
City: Culver City, CA
Onsite/ Hybrid/ Remote: Hybrid (3-4 days a week onsite) - No Flex in this
Duration: 5 Months (End date: 03/26/2027)
Rate Range: Upto $100/hr on W2
Work Authorization: GC, USC, All valid EADs except H1B, OPT, CPT
Must Have:- 10+ years of experience in payroll systems, HRIS, workforce management, payroll technology, or related enterprise applications.
- Hands-on experience configuring, administering, troubleshooting, or implementing enterprise payroll or workforce management platforms.
- Strong end-to-end payroll knowledge, including Hours-to-Gross, Gross-to-Net, payroll controls, integrations, and U.S. and Canadian payroll requirements.
- Experience leading complex production incidents, root-cause analysis, and technical resolution across applications, integrations, and data.
- Experience with integrations, APIs, secure file transfers, SQL, data validation, testing, releases, cutovers, and stabilization.
- Experience leading technical teams, contractors, managed service providers, and vendors.
- Experience managing technology budgets, vendor performance, and business-critical application environments.
- Own the strategy, technical health, operating model, and roadmap for payroll and workforce management applications.
- Lead modernization efforts focused on reliability, automation, observability, analytics, security, and user experience.
- Establish standards for application configuration, integrations, reporting, automation, security, and controls.
- Ensure payroll-related integrations and data flows are reliable, documented, monitored, and supportable.
- Lead technical investigation and resolution of complex payroll, timekeeping, integration, data, calculation, access, and financial posting issues.
- Drive critical incidents through containment, root-cause analysis, permanent resolution, validation, and preventive action.
- Lead payroll technology implementations, releases, cutovers, go-lives, and stabilization activities.
- Build and develop a strong payroll technology team through coaching, cross-training, documentation, and succession planning.
- Manage vendors, contracts, statements of work, service levels, budgets, and delivery commitments.
- Partner with Payroll, HR, Finance, Security, Audit, integration teams, and other business stakeholders.
- Maintain technical documentation, testing evidence, support procedures, runbooks, change controls, and audit-ready materials.
- Ensure payroll technology solutions meet payroll, tax, security, privacy, SOX, and audit requirements.
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent professional experience.
- Strong experience supporting business-critical payroll or workforce management applications.
- Proven experience leading technical teams and complex enterprise application environments.
- Strong knowledge of payroll integrations, application support, troubleshooting, testing, and production operations.
- Ability to communicate technical issues, risks, priorities, and decisions to senior leadership.
- Hands-on experience with Infor WFM.
- Hands-on experience with UKG Payroll.
- Experience with both Infor WFM and UKG Payroll.
- Workday Core HCM and Compensation experience.
- SAP Finance experience.
- Cognos, Power BI, SQL, advanced Excel, or similar reporting and analytics tools.
- Experience supporting complex U.S. and Canadian payroll environments.
- Experience with union and non-union payroll populations.
- Knowledge of entertainment-industry collective bargaining agreements.
- Experience with payroll technology migrations, implementations, and large-scale go-lives.
- Experience using automation, scripting, monitoring, analytics, or AI-enabled tools.
- Agile, Scrum, ITIL, project management, payroll, or relevant platform certifications.
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent professional experience
- 10+ years of experience in payroll systems, HRIS, workforce management, payroll technology, or related enterprise applications
- Hands-on experience configuring, administering, troubleshooting, or implementing enterprise payroll or workforce management platforms
- Strong end-to-end payroll knowledge, including Hours-to-Gross, Gross-to-Net, payroll controls, integrations, and U.S. and Canadian payroll requirements
- Experience leading complex production incidents, root-cause analysis, and technical resolution across applications, integrations, and data
- Experience with integrations, APIs, secure file transfers, SQL, data validation, testing, releases, cutovers, and stabilization
- Experience leading technical teams, contractors, managed service providers, and vendors
- Experience managing technology budgets, vendor performance, and business-critical application environments
- Strong experience supporting business-critical payroll or workforce management applications
- Proven experience leading technical teams and complex enterprise application environments
- Strong knowledge of payroll integrations, application support, troubleshooting, testing, and production operations
- Ability to communicate technical issues, risks, priorities, and decisions to senior leadership
- Hands-on experience with Infor WFM
- Hands-on experience with UKG Payroll
- Experience with both Infor WFM and UKG Payroll
- Workday Core HCM and Compensation experience
- SAP Finance experience
- Experience with Cognos, Power BI, SQL, advanced Excel, or similar reporting and analytics tools
- Experience supporting complex U.S. and Canadian payroll environments
- Experience with union and non-union payroll populations
- Knowledge of entertainment-industry collective bargaining agreements
- Experience with payroll technology migrations, implementations, and large-scale go-lives
- Experience using automation, scripting, monitoring, analytics, or AI-enabled tools
- Agile, Scrum, ITIL, project management, payroll, or relevant platform certifications
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Often, the biggest barrier between setting business objectives and achieving them is talent. Finding technically qualified people when you need them is hard enough. Finding technically qualified people who are the best fit for your organization is tougher. You need a staffing partner with the right expertise who can find the right talent in the right time frame, because your project can’t wait. That’s where we come in. aKube Inc is committed to leveraging its corporate values and operating model to achieve the highest level of performance and respect within the industry. We have developed a highly efficient delivery model for supporting a wide array of clients with expertise in supporting high-volume contingent worker programs.
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