Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. PARA Consulting is a people-centric consulting firm dedicated to helping businesses optimize technology, people, and processes. They are seeking an experienced HCM Principal Consultant to lead their HCM practice delivery, overseeing all HCM projects and ensuring quality and successful delivery at scale.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the Lead Consultant on HCM implementations from discovery through go-live
- Oversee all active HCM projects, ensuring alignment with delivery standards, timelines, and quality expectations
- Lead and review functional configurations across HCM modules
- Create, review, and approve functional documentation, workflows, and UAT test scripts
- Ensure compliance with SOC/SOX requirements and client-facing audit controls
- Facilitate executive-level client workshops and business requirement sessions
- Act as the escalation point for complex functional, compliance, or delivery issues
- Partner with Project Management to monitor project health, risks, and success metrics
- Mentor, coach, and provide functional guidance to HCM consultants across projects
- Ensure consistency in implementation approach, documentation, and best practices
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align business requirements with system capabilities
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in HR, IT, Business Administration, or a related field
- 5+ years of experience in HCM consulting or HR systems implementations (Rippling, Workday, NetSuite SuitePeople, ADP, UKG, or similar)
- 2+ years of experience in a lead, senior, or supervisory role
- Proven experience leading end-to-end HCM implementations
- Strong experience creating and reviewing functional documentation and UAT test scripts
- Solid knowledge of SOC/SOX compliance or internal control frameworks
- Excellent stakeholder management and client-facing communication skills
- Ability to translate business needs into scalable HCM system configurations
- Strong understanding of end-to-end HR processes and optimized HCM workflows
- Relevant HCM certifications (e.g., Workday HCM, Rippling, ADP, UKG)
- Experience overseeing multiple concurrent HCM implementations
- Experience in multi-country or global HCM deployments
- Knowledge of regional compliance requirements (GDPR, SOX, labor regulations)
- Familiarity with payroll, tax, benefits administration, and open enrollment workflows
- Experience with HR data migration and system integrations
Benefits
- Growth Opportunities – Build expertise across domains, work on high-visibility projects, and shape scalable delivery processes.
- True Strategic Impact – Be part of our clients’ long-term transformations, not just one-off projects.
- Mentorship & Leadership Development – Opportunities to coach junior resources and help grow PARA.
- Autonomy & Flexibility – We trust our team to deliver results
- Remote-First Culture – Work from anywhere and connect meaningfully with global teammates.
- Lean, Agile Operations – Skip corporate red tape, just make it happen.
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