HR Business Product Manager - Payroll

Overview

The HR Business Product Manager (People Operations Wave Lead) is a core member of Microsoft’s Pay Transformation program — a global initiative to modernize the payroll operating model by establishing Employee Central (EC) as the single source of truth for pay data and enabling automated, standardized pay-data transfer from EC to payroll providers (ADP and EY). The role owns the HR side of operational readiness for assigned country deployment waves, translating program strategy into standardized, compliant, and automated pay-data collection and transfer processes that improve payroll accuracy, timeliness, and scalability across countries.

Responsibilities

• Wave leadership: Serve as People Operations Wave Lead for assigned country deployment waves, accountable for end-to-end HR-side operational readiness through blueprinting, build, testing, go-live, and hypercare.
• Process & controls design: Design the Pay Transformation “To-Be” process, including controls and Detailed Task Procedures (DTPs); define and uphold the program’s pay-data principles and standards.
• Data analysis for integrations: Lead data analysis for EC-to-payroll integration requirements (Infotypes IT14/IT15, master data, and country-specific fields) to ensure accurate, complete inputs to payroll providers.
• Wage type mastery & automation: Own wage type (WT) mastery and automation — confirm wage types are correctly configured and keyed in Employee Central, coordinate EC Extractor configuration so inputs replicate cleanly to payroll, prevent duplicate inputs, and align replication “as-of” dates with providers.
• Operational readiness: Lead operational readiness for HR Service Delivery Centres and OnePayroll, equipping teams to run new integration processes effectively.
• Change & adoption: Determine and execute the adoption, change management, and readiness strategy for each implementation, including stakeholder engagement and communications.
• Testing & quality: Support UAT strategy and test-scenario sign-off, and coordinate SIT, replication and payroll testing, parallel runs, cutover, and hypercare.
• Compliance & privacy: Complete required privacy reviews (SuccessFactors, DRM, Mashup, associated manual processes, and Works Council) and ensure payroll compliance across in-scope countries.
• Cross-functional coordination: Partner across One-Microsoft stakeholders — HR Service Delivery (Employee Data), FinOps/Payroll & OnePayroll, Employee Experience (Engineering), CoE Architects, and payroll providers (ADP, EY) — and route issues through the program triage path.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications: 

• Proven experience in HR operations, payroll operations, or HR business-process management.
• Experience supporting global or multi-country payroll in a complex, matrixed organization.
• Working knowledge of HCM platforms, ideally SAP SuccessFactors / Employee Central and ADP Global View and associated reporting/integrations
• Demonstrated ability to design business processes and controls (e.g., DTPs) and drive standardization.
• Experience delivering cross-functional programs or projects on schedule with multiple stakeholders.
• Strong data-analysis skills with high attention to accuracy and data integrity.
• Familiarity with the testing lifecycle (SIT/UAT), cutover, and hypercare in system implementations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and stakeholder-management skills.

Business Program Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Czechia is Kč 1,093,000.00 - Kč 1,957,000.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/corporate-pay/czech-republic-corporate-pay.html

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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