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Product Owner (ERP Functional Payroll)

Category: ERP/CRM/Tools

Main location: United States, California, Sacramento

Alternate Location(s): United States, Texas, Belton

Position ID: J1124-2409

Employment Type: Full Time

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Position Description:

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

This career oppportunity is located in our Sacramento, CA office with work performed in either Sacramento or Belton, TX.

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 CGI 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

You will serve as a "Functional" leader and SME on an ERP project in support of our Sacramento, CA client by:

• Serving as the Payroll Product Owner: confidently researching, writing requirements, performing analysis, testing, triaging defects, writing user documentation, and mentoring colleagues in the following areas:

o US Tax regulations & laws, W-2, etc

o Household Employer Tax Laws - Federal & State

o Garnishments and Levies

o Understanding of Automated Pay Cycles

o Payroll

o Payroll Production Support

• Leading Test and Release Management in the following areas as needed:

o Payroll Testing

o Functional validation of GTN

o Problem solving and troubleshooting

o Understanding of interfaces in XML (webservices and batch processes)

o Defects – analysis, troubleshooting, logging, tracking, resolution, and post-mortem

o Knowledge of Container processes – code freeze, testing, implementation

o Familiarity with JIRA, Confluence and ALM

• Additional Responsibilities:

o Actively look for ways to maximize team value

o Manage Agile Teams Backlog

o Oversee Product development

o Continuously build presentation / demo skills

o Be flexible to help with any work as SME role permits. Some examples include helping team to refine stories, conduct testing, add documentation for release, etc.

• Leading sessions to analyze business requirements to determine functional solutions

• Planning and managing resources to create functional design documents and other functional project deliverables

• Planning and leading fit-gap of current processes to future designed processes

• Developing business concept/designs for functionality to support client’s business requirements

• Resolving functional issues and providing functional support to the project team

• Collaborating with clients independently to prepare participants for meeting sessions and to answer questions regarding their business functions as it relates to Advantage Payroll ERP for meeting sessions and to answer questions regarding their business functions as it relates to Advantage Payroll ERP

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

“CGI is required by law in some jurisdictions to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. The determination of this range includes various factors not limited to skill set, level, experience, relevant training, and licensure and certifications. To support the ability to reward for merit-based performance, CGI typically does not hire individuals at or near the top of the range for their role. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range for this role in the U.S. is $83,900 - $160,200."

At CGI we call our professionals “CGI Partners” to reinforce that all who join our team are, as owners, empowered to participate in the challenges and rewards that come from building a world-class company.

CGI’s benefits include:

Competitive base salaries. Eligibility to participate in an attractive Share Purchase Plan (SPP) in which the company matches dollar-for-dollar contributions made by eligible employees, up to a maximum, for their job category, 401(k) Plan and Profit Participation for eligible CGI Partners, Generous holidays, vacation, and sick leave plans, Comprehensive insurance plans that include, among other benefits, medical, dental, vision, life, disability, out-of-county emergency coverage in all countries of employment;Back-up child care, Pet insurance, a CGI Partner Assistance Program, a 529 college savings program, a personal financial management tool, lifestyle management programs and more!

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Skills:

• Payroll

• Release Management

• Software Testing

• Test Management

What you can expect from us:

Together, as owners, let’s turn meaningful insights into action.

Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…

You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

Come join our team—one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, sex, religion, creed, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability, pregnancy, medical condition, military and veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation or perceived sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, and gender expression, familial status or responsibilities, reproductive health decisions, political affiliation, genetic information, height, weight, or any other legally protected status or characteristics.

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CGI will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with CGI’s legal duty to furnish information.