ADP Lyric Implementation Consultant; Payroll​/Core HR

ADP Lyric Implementation Consultant (Payroll/Core HR)

Job Openings ADP Lyric Implementation Consultant (Payroll/Core HR)

Role

Summary:

Safebox LLC is seeking an experienced ADP Lyric Implementation Lead (hybrid, Redwood Shores, CA) to lead delivery work streams for an ADP Lyric implementation. This is a build and launch role – not a maintenance assignment. This person will own configuration, data readiness, testing, and go‑live support, operating with minimal direction, while driving tasks to closure.

Key Responsibilities:

• Run discovery workshops and translate business requirements into ADP Lyric configuration decisions.
• Configure ADP Lyric modules including multi‑state Payroll and Core HR.
• Coordinate integrations with Benefits, Time & Attendance, Talent, GL/ERP systems, vendor platforms, and API connections.
• Own data readiness including data mapping, validation, conversion reconciliation, and issue resolution.
• Develop and execute testing strategies including unit testing, integration testing, UAT, and parallel payroll runs and reconciliation (must have prior ownership experience).
• Manage defect triage and resolution with ADP professional services and internal stakeholders; track issues to closure with documented resolution and retest evidence.
• Support cutover, go‑live, and hypercare, to include cutover checklist, cutover timing, and rollback planning, as well as hypercare support for two full pay periods post go‑live.
• Produce implementation documentation with audit‑grade traceability of: configuration decision log, change log with approvals, test scripts and test evidence, integration specs and file layouts, access/role notes and control considerations, and handoff notes for steady‑state operations.
• Proactively surface risks, dependencies, and scope changes. Propose options and a recommendation.

Required Qualifications:

• Recent, hands‑on ADP Lyric implementation experience
• Payroll implementation experience with multi‑state requirements.
• Proven experience owning parallel payroll testing and reconciliation.
• Strong data mapping and conversion validation experience (earnings, deductions, taxes, jurisdictions, org structures).
• Integration coordination experience (SFTP/file‑based feeds; working knowledge of APIs is a plus).
• Ability to explain how you handled Lyric configuration for org structures, workflows, and business rules (clear examples required).
• Strong written communication. You maintain decision logs, issue logs, and weekly status updates.
• Self‑motivated – ability to drive work to closure without being managed day to day.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Pre‑IPO, high‑change environments (requirements shift; timelines compress).
• SOX readiness exposure (controls mindset, evidence, approvals, traceability).
• Experience working through prime vendors / MSP programs.
• Experience supporting Lyric‑related touchpoints to Time & Attendance, Benefits, GL mapping, or downstream vendor feeds.
• ADP certification, PMP, SHRM (nice to have).

Location: Redwood Shores, CA (Hybrid, 3-4 days per week onsite, with remote flexibility during steady configuration periods). Only local Bay Area candidates will be considered.