Hiring: Manager, Payroll Projects & Portfolio Management Company: Sony Pictures Entertainment Location: Culver City, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 12:52:39 Target Skills & Keywords : Agile, Business Analysis, Change Management, Jira, Portfolio Management, Program Management, Project Management, SAP, Stakeholder Management, Systems Integration, Workday About the job Experience: •5+ years of project or program management, including 3+ years managing concurrent payroll, HCM, enterprise-system, or operational projects. •Demonstrated experience developing plans, governance routines, RAID logs, status reports, executive updates, and recovery plans. Required Skills: •Portfolio & Project Management (35%) •Own a portfolio of payroll projects from intake and prioritization through implementation, stabilization, and closeout. •Develop integrated plans defining scope, deliverables, milestones, dependencies, resources, timelines, critical paths, and success measures. •Drive execution through RAID and decision logs, change control, action tracking, escalation management, and recovery plans. •Maintain the portfolio roadmap and recommend priorities based on value, risk, operational impact, capacity, and readiness. •Lead discovery and gather, analyze, validate, document, and prioritize business, functional, data, integration, reporting, and control requirements. •Translate payroll needs into scope, process maps, use cases, acceptance criteria, implementation requirements, and workstream deliverables. •Establish charters, governance, RACI matrices, meeting cadences, documentation standards, and decision protocols. Qualifications: •Demonstrated capacity to manage concurrent payroll or HCM projects using strong planning, scheduling, dependency, resource, risk, and change-control practices. •Strong requirements gathering, business analysis, process mapping, documentation, and acceptance-criteria skills. •Exceptional facilitation, negotiation, conflict resolution, stakeholder management, and influence without direct authority. •Demonstrated capacity to establish governance and communicate complex project information clearly to executives and delivery teams. •Solid functional working knowledge of payroll operations and HCM platforms (especially UKG Pro, Workday and Infor WFM). •Proficiency with Smartsheet, Jira, Teams, SharePoint, or comparable project tools. •7+ years of project or program management experience, including payroll or HCM transformation and implementation projects. •PMP, Agile, Prosci, or comparable project or change management certification. •Project experience with UKG Pro and/or Workday, Infor WFM, Dayforce, or SAP experience is beneficial. •Entertainment industry experience and familiarity with union environments, collective bargaining agreements, and specialized pay practices. Compensation: •$127,200 - $159,000 / year •Competitive benefits and rewards package Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!