Payroll-HRIS - Consultant

Payroll Systems Implementation Consultant

Location:

San Antonio, TX / Remote with Travel

Employment Type:

Consulting Start: ASAP Project Duration:
Through July 2027 go-live, with potential 2-month hypercare extension

Travel:
Onsite in San Antonio during Week 1, then approximately 2–3 days monthly, with the potential for increased onsite support during training and go-live

The Opportunity Vaco is partnering with a rapidly growing organization to identify an experienced Payroll Systems Implementation Consultant to support a major HR and payroll technology transformation.

The organization is transitioning from ADP to Paycor across payroll, onboarding, performance management, and other components of the employee lifecycle. This is a highly visible consulting engagement supporting a lean HR/payroll team during a period of significant anticipated growth.

The consultant will initially focus on understanding the current payroll environment, cleaning and structuring data, documenting processes, and preparing the organization for conversion. As the Paycor implementation progresses, this individual will serve as the internal HR/payroll team's primary representative in the project, partnering closely with Paycor's technical and project management resources.

This is not simply a payroll processing role. The ideal consultant is a hands-on payroll professional who understands system conversions and can independently drive projects forward.

What You'll DoSupport the migration from ADP to Paycor, representing the internal HR/payroll team throughout the implementation

Assess and learn the existing payroll environment, processes, data structure, and integrations

Clean, organize, validate, and structure payroll and employee data in preparation for conversion

Help coordinate data movement and validation between ADP, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and Paycor Gather information from multiple stakeholders and sources and translate it into clear documentation and implementation requirements

Partner with Paycor technical resources and project management teams throughout the conversion

Manage timelines, dependencies, issues, testing, and follow-up activities to keep the project moving toward completion

Lead or support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and document results and required corrections

Validate payroll data and processes throughout the conversion process

Support multi-state payroll compliance across states including Texas, New Jersey, New York, Florida, Idaho, and Washington, D.C.Develop training materials and train HR and operations teams on new processes and system functionality

Provide additional onsite support during training, implementation, go-live, and potentially hypercare

Balance multiple priorities and shift between hands-on payroll work, data cleanup, testing, documentation, and project management as needed

What We're Looking For4 years of progressive payroll experience

Bachelor's degree

Strong hands-on experience with ADP Experience with Paycor, ideally including an ADP-to-Paycor implementation or conversion

Previous payroll or HRIS system conversion/implementation experience

Strong understanding of multi-state payroll and compliance

Experience with data conversion, validation, cleanup, and reconciliation

Hands-on UAT/testing experience

Experience developing documentation and training end users

Strong Excel skills

Proven project management skills, including the ability to coordinate multiple stakeholders and drive deliverables through completion

Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Highly detail-oriented and organized

Comfortable gathering information from different sources and creating structure where processes or documentation may not yet exist

Ability to work independently in a lean environment with limited hand holding

Flexible, agile, and comfortable shifting priorities as implementation needs evolve

Preferred Qualifications Previous ADP-to-Paycor conversion experience

Experience supporting payroll system implementations in a rapidly growing organization

Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365

Experience supporting payroll system go-live and post-implementation hypercare

Experience training HR, payroll, or operational teams

Why This Project?

This consultant will have the opportunity to play a significant role in a major payroll and HR technology transformation. With a lean internal team and substantial organizational growth expected, this individual will have meaningful ownership of the project and serve as a key partner to leadership throughout the…