PARA CONSULTING

Lead and oversee multiple HCM implementation projects, ensuring quality, compliance, and client satisfaction. | Requires 5+ years in HCM consulting or HR systems, leadership experience, and knowledge of compliance frameworks, which your profile does not match. | About the Role PARA Consulting is seeking an experienced HCM Principal Consultant to join our implementation team and lead our HCM practice delivery. This role expands beyond a traditional HCM Lead position. In addition to serving as the Lead Consultant on complex client implementations, you will oversee all HCM projects across PARA Consulting, ensuring consistency, quality, and successful delivery at scale. You will be responsible for driving functional excellence, guiding implementation teams, and acting as the senior functional authority across HCM engagements. This role combines hands-on consulting, project oversight, client advisory, and team leadership. You will partner closely with technical leads, project managers, and leadership while serving as the highest-level functional expert for HCM clients. What You’ll Do Serve as the Lead Consultant on HCM implementations from discovery through go-live Oversee all active HCM projects, ensuring alignment with delivery standards, timelines, and quality expectations Lead and review functional configurations across HCM modules Create, review, and approve functional documentation, workflows, and UAT test scripts Ensure compliance with SOC/SOX requirements and client-facing audit controls Facilitate executive-level client workshops and business requirement sessions Act as the escalation point for complex functional, compliance, or delivery issues Partner with Project Management to monitor project health, risks, and success metrics Mentor, coach, and provide functional guidance to HCM consultants across projects Ensure consistency in implementation approach, documentation, and best practices Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align business requirements with system capabilities Minimum Requirements Bachelor’s degree in HR, IT, Business Administration, or a related field 5+ years of experience in HCM consulting or HR systems implementations (Rippling, Workday, NetSuite SuitePeople, ADP, UKG, or similar) 2+ years of experience in a lead, senior, or supervisory role Proven experience leading end-to-end HCM implementations Strong experience creating and reviewing functional documentation and UAT test scripts Solid knowledge of SOC/SOX compliance or internal control frameworks Excellent stakeholder management and client-facing communication skills Ability to translate business needs into scalable HCM system configurations Strong understanding of end-to-end HR processes and optimized HCM workflows Preferred Qualifications (Not required, but will make you stand out) Relevant HCM certifications (e.g., Workday HCM, Rippling, ADP, UKG) Experience overseeing multiple concurrent HCM implementations Experience in multi-country or global HCM deployments Knowledge of regional compliance requirements (GDPR, SOX, labor regulations) Familiarity with payroll, tax, benefits administration, and open enrollment workflows Experience with HR data migration and system integrations A Day in the Life You begin your day reviewing dashboards across all active HCM projects, quickly identifying risks, dependencies, and areas requiring attention. During your morning standup, you align with project managers and consultants, providing guidance on complex configurations and unblocking critical issues. Mid-morning, you step into a high-priority client escalation call as the Lead Consultant, translating business concerns into clear functional solutions and ensuring delivery stays on track. You review a go-live readiness checklist for one client while advising another team on a challenging payroll or benefits configuration. In the afternoon, you lead a cross-functional workshop to align technical and business teams, review implementation quality across projects, and mentor consultants on best practices. You close your day confident that all HCM projects under your oversight are progressing with clarity, consistency, and high delivery standards.

Support day-to-day HR and payroll operations, manage employee lifecycle activities, and ensure HR compliance across multiple states. | Bachelor's degree in HR or related field, 3-5 years of HR operations and payroll experience, proficiency with HRIS/payroll systems, and understanding of payroll cycles and compliance. | About the Role We are seeking an HR Generalist / Payroll Specialist to support our clients in day-to-day HR operations, employee lifecycle management, and payroll processing. This role is part of PARA Consulting’s BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) service delivery team, where you will act as the primary HR and payroll point of contact for assigned clients. The ideal candidate has strong HR operations experience, understands end-to-end payroll workflows, and can confidently handle multi-state employee support. You will manage onboarding, offboarding, employee documentation, payroll submissions, and HR compliance tasks while delivering an exceptional customer experience. This role is perfect for someone who is proactive, detail-oriented, organized, and comfortable working directly with clients in a fast-paced environment. What You’ll Do Serve as the main HR and payroll point of contact for client accounts. Process payroll for hourly and salaried employees, including variable pay or adjustments. Manage employee lifecycle activities: onboarding, offboarding, changes in compensation, and status changes. Maintain employee records and ensure HR compliance across local/state regulations. Support benefits administration (open enrollment, new hires, terminations, status updates). Create and update HR documentation including SOPs, checklists, and templates. Respond to employee HR/payroll inquiries and provide issue resolution. Track time and attendance to ensure payroll accuracy. Coordinate with finance, management, and external vendors as needed. Minimum Qualifications (Required) Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field. 3–5 years of experience in HR operations and payroll processing. Experience working with HRIS or payroll systems (Rippling, ADP, Paychex, Gusto, etc.). Understanding of payroll cycles, time tracking, deductions, garnishments, and final pay. Strong organizational and communication skills. Ability to interpret and apply HR and payroll policies accurately. Ability to work effectively in a remote environment and manage multiple clients. Preferred Qualifications (Not required, but will make you stand out.) Experience supporting multi-state payroll in the U.S. Experience working in a BPO or consulting environment. Knowledge of benefits admin processes (open enrollment, qualifying life events). Strong problem-solving skills and ability to manage competing priorities. Comfort working with checklists, documentation libraries, and SOPs. A Day in the Life You start your day reviewing payroll status, employee tickets, and client requests. You join a client check-in to review onboarding needs, compensation changes, and weekly payroll updates. After the call, you process new hires in the HRIS, collect required documents, and ensure everything is compliant and ready for payroll. Midday, you finalize payroll entries, validate hours submitted, reconcile any discrepancies, and submit payroll for approval , double-checking tax withholdings, benefits deductions, and garnishments. In the afternoon, you update HR documentation, respond to employee questions, and assist managers with HR actions or compliance inquiries. Before wrapping up, you review any pending employee changes and update the HRIS to keep all records accurate. You end the day knowing you’ve kept operations flowing, payroll accurate, and employees supported.

Support day-to-day HR and payroll operations for clients, managing onboarding, offboarding, employee documentation, and compliance. | 3-5 years of HR operations and payroll experience, familiarity with HRIS/payroll systems, and understanding of payroll cycles and HR policies. | About PARA Consulting PARA Consulting is a people-centric consulting firm dedicated to helping businesses optimize technology, people, and processes. We provide strategic and tactical services across HR, ERP, and business operations—delivering high-impact outcomes through tailored digital ecosystem solutions. From full HR outsourcing and NetSuite ERP support to workforce planning and business process automation, PARA brings integrity, agility, and community into everything we do. As a remote organization, we prioritize flexibility, outcomes, and sustainable growth for our clients and team members alike. Why Choose PARA? • Growth Opportunities – Build expertise across domains, work on high-visibility projects, and shape scalable delivery processes. • True Strategic Impact – Be part of our clients’ long-term transformations—not just one-off projects. • Mentorship & Leadership Development – Opportunities to coach junior resources and help grow PARA. • Autonomy & Flexibility – We trust our team to deliver results • Remote-First Culture – Work from anywhere and connect meaningfully with global teammates. • Lean, Agile Operations – Skip corporate red tape—just make it happen. About the Role We are seeking an HR Generalist / Payroll Specialist to support our clients in day-to-day HR operations, employee lifecycle management, and payroll processing. This role is part of PARA Consulting’s BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) service delivery team, where you will act as the primary HR and payroll point of contact for assigned clients. The ideal candidate has strong HR operations experience, understands end-to-end payroll workflows, and can confidently handle multi-state employee support. You will manage onboarding, offboarding, employee documentation, payroll submissions, and HR compliance tasks while delivering an exceptional customer experience. This role is perfect for someone who is proactive, detail-oriented, organized, and comfortable working directly with clients in a fast-paced environment. What You’ll Do • Serve as the main HR and payroll point of contact for client accounts. • Process payroll for hourly and salaried employees, including variable pay or adjustments. • Manage employee lifecycle activities: onboarding, offboarding, changes in compensation, and status changes. • Maintain employee records and ensure HR compliance across local/state regulations. • Support benefits administration (open enrollment, new hires, terminations, status updates). • Create and update HR documentation including SOPs, checklists, and templates. • Respond to employee HR/payroll inquiries and provide issue resolution. • Track time and attendance to ensure payroll accuracy. • Coordinate with finance, management, and external vendors as needed. Minimum Qualifications (Required) • Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field. • 3–5 years of experience in HR operations and payroll processing. • Experience working with HRIS or payroll systems (Rippling, ADP, Paychex, Gusto, etc.). • Understanding of payroll cycles, time tracking, deductions, garnishments, and final pay. • Strong organizational and communication skills. • Ability to interpret and apply HR and payroll policies accurately. • Ability to work effectively in a remote environment and manage multiple clients. Preferred Qualifications (Not required, but will make you stand out.) • Experience supporting multi-state payroll in the U.S. • Experience working in a BPO or consulting environment. • Knowledge of benefits admin processes (open enrollment, qualifying life events). • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to manage competing priorities. • Comfort working with checklists, documentation libraries, and SOPs. A Day in the Life You start your day reviewing payroll status, employee tickets, and client requests. You join a client check-in to review onboarding needs, compensation changes, and weekly payroll updates. After the call, you process new hires in the HRIS, collect required documents, and ensure everything is compliant and ready for payroll. Midday, you finalize payroll entries, validate hours submitted, reconcile any discrepancies, and submit payroll for approval , double-checking tax withholdings, benefits deductions, and garnishments. In the afternoon, you update HR documentation, respond to employee questions, and assist managers with HR actions or compliance inquiries. Before wrapping up, you review any pending employee changes and update the HRIS to keep all records accurate. You end the day knowing you’ve kept operations flowing, payroll accurate, and employees supported.

Manage multiple client projects from initiation to go-live, ensuring thorough documentation, stakeholder engagement, and quality assurance. | Bachelor's in Business, IT, or related field, 4-7 years of project management experience, strong documentation skills, proficiency with PM tools and documentation platforms, and ability to work remotely. | About PARA Consulting PARA Consulting is a people-centric consulting firm dedicated to helping businesses optimize technology, people, and processes. We provide strategic and tactical services across HR, ERP, and business operations—delivering high-impact outcomes through tailored digital ecosystem solutions. From full HR outsourcing and NetSuite ERP support to workforce planning and business process automation, PARA brings integrity, agility, and community into everything we do. As a remote organization, we prioritize flexibility, outcomes, and sustainable growth for our clients and team members alike. Why Choose PARA? • Growth Opportunities – Build expertise across domains, work on high-visibility projects, and shape scalable delivery processes. • True Strategic Impact – Be part of our clients’ long-term transformations—not just one-off projects. • Mentorship & Leadership Development – Opportunities to coach junior resources and help grow PARA. • Autonomy & Flexibility – We trust our team to deliver results • Remote-First Culture – Work from anywhere and connect meaningfully with global teammates. • Lean, Agile Operations – Skip corporate red tape—just make it happen. About the Role We are seeking a Mid-Level Project Manager to join PARA Consulting’s Delivery & Implementation team. You will manage multiple client projects simultaneously, ensuring smooth execution from kickoff to go-live. This role requires excellence in documentation, structured thinking, stakeholder management, and the ability to translate complex business needs into actionable project plans and deliverables. The ideal candidate is organized, detail-oriented, proactive, and thrives in a fast-paced consulting environment working closely with cross-functional teams and clients. A Day in the Life You log in and begin your day by reviewing dashboards across multiple active client projects, identifying priorities, deadlines, and potential risks. Your morning starts with a client status meeting where you present progress, align on blockers, and guide stakeholders through decisions that impact the critical path. After the call, you lead a requirements session, documenting business processes through detailed flowcharts, user stories, and functional specifications that set the foundation for the technical team’s configuration work. Midday, you facilitate a cross-functional workshop to map an end-to-end workflow, carefully documenting integrations, dependencies, and data flows in clear, structured artifacts. You update the project wiki with outcomes, refine the RACI matrix, and outline mitigation strategies for upcoming milestones. Between meetings, you review SOPs, refine playbooks, and tighten documentation to ensure clarity and consistency for the delivery team. In the afternoon, you coach a junior team member on project documentation standards while juggling updates across multiple client timelines. You conduct a gap analysis, log change requests with full impact assessments, and adjust the master project plan accordingly. Before wrapping up, you review and approve test plans and validation scripts to ensure they align with requirements and acceptance criteria. As a PARA PM, you understand that precise documentation, structured communication, and strong governance keep complex implementations on track. Whether you’re building project charters, maintaining risk logs, updating status reports, or preparing milestone readouts, your leadership ensures successful delivery and clear knowledge transfer. You end your day knowing you moved multiple initiatives forward smoothly and strategically. What You’ll Do Responsibilities • Lead and manage multiple concurrent client projects from initiation through go-live. • Develop comprehensive project documentation: project charters, plans, timelines, status reports, decision logs, and risk registers. • Conduct business analysis and document current-state and future-state processes. • Create and maintain functional requirements, user stories, workflow diagrams, and acceptance criteria. • Facilitate steering committees, stakeholder workshops, and decision-making sessions. • Maintain project wikis, SOPs, internal process documentation, and knowledge bases. • Manage timelines, budgets, scope, resources, and deliverables across multiple clients. • Coordinate with consultants, developers, and client stakeholders to ensure alignment. • Establish and uphold quality assurance processes for documentation and deliverables. • Build test plans, review test scripts, and coordinate UAT activities. • Mentor junior analysts and support their documentation and delivery skills. Minimum Qualifications (Required) • Bachelor’s degree in Business, IT, HR, Operations, or a related field. • 4–7 years of experience in project management, program management, or business analysis. • Demonstrated excellence in documentation: process flows, requirements, project plans, SOPs, functional specs. • Proven experience managing multiple simultaneous projects in fast-paced environments. • Strong business analysis skills: gap analysis, process mapping, requirements gathering. • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; ability to present to senior leadership. • Experience with PM tools such as Asana, ClickUp, Monday, MS Project. • Proficiency with documentation tools like Confluence, SharePoint, Miro, Visio. • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with high attention to detail. • Ability to lead cross-functional teams without direct authority. • Ability to work effectively in a fully remote environment. Preferred Qualifications (Not required, but will set you apart.) • Experience implementing or working with enterprise systems (ERP, CRM, HCM). • Professional certifications (PMP, CAPM, CBAP, Agile/Scrum). • Consulting or professional services experience. • Understanding of financial, HR, or operational business processes. • Experience with Agile/Scrum frameworks. • High ownership mindset and ability to drive clarity in ambiguous environments. The pay range for this role is: 90,000 - 130,000 USD per year(Remote (United States))