Role: Peoplesoft Payroll Systems Consultant
Location: Oakland, CA (Hybrid)
Duration: 6+ months
Pay Rate: $80 to $90
Overview: We are looking for a senior consultant who can support a district-wide review of payroll and timekeeping systems (PeopleSoft, Hastus, Kronos) with a focus on FLSA compliance, travel-time premiums, and future-state process design.
Core Skills & Experience Needed:
- 10+ years in Payroll/HRIS consulting or Business Analysis.
- Deep knowledge of FLSA rules, especially overtime, premium pay, split shifts, and compliance in public-sector or union environments.
- Strong hands-on experience with PeopleSoft Time & Labor and Payroll (configuration, pay rules, retro logic, compliance rules).
- Working understanding of Kronos/UKG and ideally Hastus (or similar operator/transportation timekeeping systems).
- Experience analyzing end-to-end payroll flows between multiple systems.
- Proven ability to document current-state and future-state processes and translate findings into requirements.
- Strong workshop facilitation skills to work with Payroll, HR, Legal, Operations, and IT stakeholders.
- Excellent documentation abilities (requirements, design specs, process flows).
Nice to Have:
- Experience with transit agencies or transportation scheduling/timekeeping systems.
- Prior FLSA audit or compliance remediation project experience.
- Understanding of public-sector labor agreements.
High-Level Scope of Work:
(This will be expanded later, but candidates should be comfortable with…)
- Reviewing current payroll/timekeeping processes for FLSA compliance.
- Identifying gaps in how travel time premiums and related rules are applied.
- Creating future-state recommendations across processes and systems.
- Producing requirements and preliminary design documents for PeopleSoft/Kronos/Hastus changes.
- Estimating impacts on cost, staffing, and timelines.
