Product Owner - Payroll and Time & Attendance

For more than 80 years, our client’s engineers and product specialists have partnered with customers to produce highly engineered connectivity and sensing solutions that make a connected world possible. Their focus on reliability, durability, and sustainability exemplifies their commitment to progress. The unmatched range of their product portfolio enables companies, large and small, to turn ideas into technology that can transform how the world works and lives tomorrow.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage the relationship with business leaders for Payroll-related applications and Time & Attendance systems, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and priorities
• Collaborate closely with HR and Payroll teams to gather business requirements and translate them into detailed technical specifications for Payroll and Time & Attendance modules.
• Prioritize and oversee the customization and configuration of Time & Attendance modules, including designing and implementing time and leave policies, accruals, carryovers, and other business rules, ensuring they meet organizational needs.
• Drive the delivery of system testing, integration testing, and user acceptance testing for Time & Attendance modules, ensuring accurate functionality and successful deployment.
• Provide hands-on technical support, troubleshooting and resolving issues related to Time & Attendance modules, and ensuring timely solutions for end-users.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration to ensure seamless integration between Payroll, Time & Attendance, and HR systems, driving efficiency and data consistency across platforms.
• Stay hands-on and up-to-date with the latest trends and best practices in SAP EC Payroll, SAP WorkForce Software, and related technologies, ensuring that the team leverages cutting-edge solutions.
• Experience building reports using Tableau, SAP WorkForce Software or related reporting tools

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent); advanced degree preferred. 
• 7+ years of experience configuring and implementing Payroll and Time & Attendance modules
• Has experience playing a lead role in implementation and support projects
• Strong Techno functional knowledge of the payroll processing and Time & Attendance modules
• Proficiency in payroll processes, payroll clusters, off-cycle payments, 3rd party remittance, benefits, and process models. 
• Experience in time recording, management & evaluation desired (Workforce Software, Kronos, or equivalent.) 
• Ability to communicate recommendations and solutions to non-technical clients and end users. 
• Experience building and executing test scripts for HR information system upgrades and enhancements. 
• Advanced proficiency in MS Office, especially Excel.