Compensation Implementation ADP Workforce Now Project Manager
About The Position
TURN Behavioral Health Services is seeking an experienced ADP Compensation Implementation Project Manager to lead implementation and rollout of ADP Workforce Now compensation management through April 30, 2027. TURN is a San Diego–based nonprofit with more than 80 programs and roughly 740 employees. Its People Operations team is modernizing compensation practices to make pay decisions consistent, transparent, and easier for managers to administer. The project will replace anniversary-date reviews and spreadsheet-based processes with a centralized, common-date annual review and merit cycle in ADP. The system will include salary structures, salary bands, and approximately 90 program-level compensation budgets tied to employee evaluations. This is a hands-on, player-coach role. The project manager will own the implementation plan and manage HR, Payroll, Finance, IT, operational leaders, and the ADP implementation team while personally performing detailed system work, including data cleanup, bulk uploads, salary-structure loads, validation, testing, and reconciliation. The role also includes training and documentation, preparation for go-live, and knowledge transfer to HR and Payroll.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of HRIS, compensation, payroll, or HR technology implementation experience.
- Experience leading multiple compensation-system implementations from planning through go-live.
- Hands-on ADP experience; ADP Workforce Now compensation functionality is preferred.
- Strong working knowledge of salary structures and ranges, merit increases, compensation budgets, eligibility, manager worksheets, approval workflows, effective dating, job and position data, and payroll impacts.
- Advanced Excel skills, including lookups, pivot tables, conditional logic, filters, and reconciliation of large employee datasets.
- Proven accuracy in detailed data-entry and data-validation work.
- Strong project management skills across multiple workstreams and deadlines.
- Excellent communication skills with executives, HR, Payroll, managers, and external vendors.
Nice To Haves
- Three or more successful compensation-management implementations, ideally in ADP.
- Personal experience configuring, testing, or administering ADP, rather than only managing an implementation team.
- Experience moving an organization from anniversary-date or spreadsheet-based reviews to a common-date, centralized HRIS compensation workflow.
- Experience integrating compensation with payroll and performance-management cycles.
- Experience building salary structures, salary bands, and compensation budgets.
- Nonprofit, healthcare, or multi-program organization experience.
- PMP, SHRM-CP/SCP, PHR/SPHR, CCP, or similar credentials.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end implementation plan, including schedule, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and decision log.
- Drive the project to the April 30, 2027 completion date and hold internal stakeholders and ADP accountable for deliverables and timelines.
- Lead implementation meetings with clear owners and deadlines.
- Identify risks, develop mitigation plans, and escalate issues requiring executive or vendor intervention.
- Configure the ADP Workforce Now compensation module, including compensation structures, salary ranges, eligibility rules, budgets, review cycles, and approval workflows.
- Translate TURN's compensation practices into workable system configuration.
- Validate employee, job, position, compensation, reporting-hierarchy, and organizational data.
- Support integration between compensation processes and payroll, and troubleshoot configuration and data issues with ADP and internal users.
- Enter and update employee and compensation data; load and validate salary ranges, salary bands, and compensation budgets, using bulk uploads where appropriate.
- Review employee and job mappings; clean, correct, and de-duplicate source data.
- Compare source records to ADP and reconcile compensation against Payroll and HR records.
- Maintain implementation spreadsheets and data-conversion files, and perform quality checks before and after each data load.
- Build a structured testing and validation plan and coordinate and perform user acceptance testing.
- Test compensation cycles end to end, including manager access, employee populations, salary ranges, budgets, calculations, approvals, and workflow routing.
- Perform payroll-impact reconciliation before production rollout.
- Document defects, drive resolution with ADP, and conduct a final go-live readiness assessment.
- Develop administrator and manager procedures, job aids, process documentation, and training materials, and support manager training before launch.
- Ensure HR and Payroll can administer the system independently, with clear post-launch ownership and escalation paths.
- Confirm successful implementation, complete final data reconciliation, document open issues and recommended follow-up actions, deliver configuration and process documentation, complete knowledge transfer to HR and Payroll, and provide a final summary with lessons learned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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