Role Overview

The Project Manager will lead a cross-functional transformation program to evaluate, select, and implement integrated solutions for human resources (HR), rostering, payroll, and employee expense refunds. This role is responsible for delivering a scalable, compliant, and user-friendly system landscape that can support multi-entity people operations and financial processes.

Key Responsibilities

Program Leadership

• Lead the end-to-end program lifecycle from initiation through vendor selection, implementation, and post-go-live support.
• Define program scope, objectives, success criteria, and governance structure.
• Develop and manage detailed project plans, timelines, budgets, and resource allocation.

Stakeholder Management

• Collaborate with senior stakeholders across HR, Finance, IT, and Procurement
• Facilitate workshops to gather business requirements and align priorities.
• Provide regular status updates to steering committees and executive sponsors.

Requirements & Solution Design

• Capture and document functional and technical requirements for payroll, HR, rostering, and employee expense management
• Ensure alignment with local compliance, tax regulations, and reporting requirements.
• Define future-state processes and identify opportunities for standardisation and automation.

Vendor Selection

• Working in collaboration with procurement, lead the RFP/RFI process including vendor evaluation, scoring, and selection.
• Coordinate product demonstrations, proof-of-concepts, and reference checks
• Support contract negotiations in collaboration with procurement and legal teams.

Implementation Oversight

• Manage system implementation in partnership with selected vendors, business leads and internal IT teams.
• Oversee data migration, integrations (e.g. finance systems), and testing phases.
• Ensure robust change management, training, and communication plans are executed.

Risk & Governance

• Identify, track, and mitigate program risks and issues.
• Ensure adherence to governance frameworks, timelines, and budget constraints.
• Maintain program documentation and audit readiness.

Key Deliverables:

• Business requirements documentation
• Vendor evaluation and selection assessments
• Implementation roadmap and project plan
• Configured and tested HR, payroll, rostering and employee expense management systems
• Training materials and user adoption strategy
• Post-implementation review and optimisation plan

Skills & Experience

Proven experience managing and delivering large-scale, complex system selection and implementation projects

• Knowledge of HRIS, payroll systems, and employee expense management platforms an advantage.
• Experience with RFP processes and vendor management.
• Ability to clearly articulate project plans, progress reports, and potential roadblocks.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Strong organisational and problem-solving abilities.
• Familiarity with Agile or hybrid project methodologies.
• Project management certification (e.g., PRINCE2, PMP).

HRI Core Values:

Empowerment

Ambition

Excellence

Pride & Passion

Integrity

Respect

HRI is an equal opportunities employer. Interview candidates will be provided with any necessary reasonable accommodations when called for interview.