Product Owner (ERP Functional Payroll)

Position Description:

We are seeking a Product Owner (ERP Functional Payroll) to join our team!

This career opportunity is located in our Sacramento, CA office.

This career opportunity is 50% Functional and 50% Technical.

Are you looking for a career with social impact? Do you want to use your technical talents to improve not only how people work, but also enable people to have better lives?
Stepping in as our Product Owner (ERP Functional Payroll) will align you with an opportunity to both streamline and improve business systems that improve workflow, as well as ensure swift and accurate payments to end users. Come join a team that has delivered solutions to address large and complex IT challenges through a collaborative approach based on shared values with our client.

You will be supporting Advantage Payroll daily operations and Payroll customizations.

Seeking those who enjoy leveraging their analytical Payroll and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) knowledge as a consultant assisting our clients to not only successfully implement ERP solutions, but to help them gain the most benefit from their ERP investment.

The individual would be a great contributor, but relish working as a team player in a highly collaborative, modern agile implementation environment.

Leverage your payroll experience but is unafraid to learn new tools and solutions to hone their craft and improve how they can make our clients successful.

This is an exciting full-time career opportunity to work in a fast-paced team environment on technology systems. We are adopting a new way to support our clients working side-by-side in a collaborative environment modernizing existing technology.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

How you'll make an impact

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

What you'll bring

5+ years of Product Owner experience involved with ERP implementation projects focused on the Payroll area (e.g., SAP, Workday, PeopleSoft, Advantage). Strongly prefer experience with "CGI Advantage".

Agile certification, such as SAFe certification, with related agile implementation experience.

We are seeking candidates who have established backgrounds in Payroll functional areas and can support other areas such as change management and business process re-engineering.

Seeking someone who is self-motivated, able to adapt to changing project environments, be a standout colleague, be able to travel throughout the US West region and quickly ramp up to gain proficiency in CGI’s built for government ERP solution.

• Lead, coordinate and perform the functional task related to the System Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

• Provide support for conversion, interfaces, reports and forms analysis

• Translate the business case analysis and client requirements into design documents

• Document user stories, test plans, and test execution

• Coordinate and lead peer review sessions

• Consult with client about root causes of payroll issues, and provide organized and systematic methods of solution implementation

• Mentor, influence, facilitate, present, communicate, develop, analyze, and problem solve

• Highly self-motivated

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Work in a virtual team environment

• Ability to work under deadline pressure

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS/NON-ESSENTIAL SKILLS:

• Experience with User Centered Design would be useful

Minimum Education Required: Bachelor's degree