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Senior Payroll Project Manager

Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur 18000.00 - 23000.00 MYR / Month · Job Posted June 10, 2026
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The Senior Project Manager will lead a complex, multi-country HCM payroll project, ensuring successful delivery within budget and on schedule. The role brings together business, technology and vendor teams to move toward a single and consistent payroll system and operating model. The role is responsible for making sure the program is delivered within its schedule, quality and budget, while coordinating a broad stakeholder group across P&C, Finance, Technology, local country SMEs, Workday and third party vendors.

Job Responsibility

  • Manage project stakeholders, including executive sponsors, project team members, and external vendors
  • Facilitate effective communication and collaboration among project team members
  • Lead the end-to-end delivery of the project from mobilisation through design, build, testing, cutover, hypercare and country BAU handover
  • Develop and maintain the integrated project plan, milestones, critical path, dependencies, RAID log and decision register
  • Drive disciplined execution across workstreams and vendors so that scope, schedule, cost and quality remain visible, controlled and actively managed
  • Ensure delivery plans reflect phased rollout, country-specific requirements and agreed acceptance criteria
  • Drive closure of key decisions that materially affect schedule, cost, scope or operational readiness
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with senior executives, HR leaders, and IT stakeholders
  • Effectively communicate project status, risks, and issues to stakeholders at all levels
  • Manage expectations and resolve conflicts to ensure project success
  • Establish and run fit-for-purpose governance forums, reporting cadence, escalation paths and decision checkpoints across vendors
  • Coordinate senior stakeholders across People & Culture, Finance, Technology and project sponsors to secure timely decisions, approvals and issue resolution
  • Provide clear, concise and decision-oriented reporting to sponsors, steering forums and workstream leads
  • Maintain alignment between business priorities, technical delivery constraints and vendor commitments
  • Manage delivery relationships with vendors, tracking vendor deliverables, commercials, milestone readiness, change requests, risks and obligations under relevant SOWs
  • Ensure vendor-led outputs are complete, fit for purpose and aligned to the acceptance criteria before sign-off
  • Escalate delivery, quality or commercial concerns early and drive resolution through agreed governance channels
  • Orchestrate the work of cross-functional teams including business SMEs, payroll, HR systems, integration, security, finance, testing, change and data migration resources
  • Ensure functional design, technical solutioning, data migration, testing and operational readiness activities are sequenced and integrated effectively
  • Work closely with business and technical leads, recognising that SMEs and specialist leads own detailed solution content while the Project Manager owns delivery integration and outcome landing
  • Collaborate with payroll subject matter experts to ensure accurate and efficient payroll processing
  • Manage the transition to BAU teams, production and provide ongoing support during the hypercare phase
  • Monitor system performance, identify and resolve issues, and ensure compliance with service level agreements

Requirements

  • 8 years
  • Payroll Project
  • Experience delivering payroll, HRIS, ERP, SAAS or other enterprise platform transformations
  • Demonstrate knowledge of HCM payroll syste
  • Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration or related field

What we offer

  • insurance
  • Hybrid working arrangement
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