Introduction
A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You’ll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.
Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your Role and Responsibilities
We are seeking an experienced Payroll Operations Manager to lead payroll operations within a federal consulting environment. This role will manage complex payroll processes, ensure compliance with federal regulations, and drive continuous improvements to enhance service delivery. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of federal payroll systems, operational excellence, and team leadership, with a proven ability to work in a consulting environment. As a Payroll Operations Manager you will be responsible for the implementation, delivery and direct all aspects of Payroll Operations for federal agencies . This role will include oversight over implementation, testing and our O&M support team, aligning to industry best practices for Payroll processes and procedures, and the enforcement of the overall governance model for payroll operations. You will design short term and long-term strategies for continuous improvement in supporting operations for our agencies.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Proven leadership experience managing teams in a consulting or service-oriented environment.
• Experience leading medium to large sized projects of moderate or greater complexity, involving multiple customer stakeholders and a distributed, cross-functional team
• Demonstrated experience managing large-scale HR or shared services projects
• Excellent customer relationship management skills including effective oral and written communications
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Engage with client stakeholders and customers to determine appropriate process improvements, 10+ years
• Capacity and willingness to learn complex business rules and apply them to system processes and support, 10+ years
• Lead payroll operations center
• Agile management experience
• Federal HR and talent transformation expertise
• Development of business case and multi-year strategy improvement roadmaps
• Experience in implementing large scale payroll transformation projects from end-to-end (requirements gathering to post implementation)

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
• Knowledge of compliance and regulatory requirements, particularly in government or public sector environments.
• Familiarity with standards like Section 508 accessibility compliance and data privacy regulations
• Expertise in payroll systems like Workday, PeopleSoft, or SAP, and experience with cloud-based technologies.
• Experience working in a matrixed organization, handling complex client engagements.