Description
My client an Energy Trading Company based in Sunbury requires a Workday Payroll Landscape Testing Lead who will be responsible for the strategy, developing the detailed plan, understanding resource needs both from a central team and a country operations team, and managing the entire testing activity needed to make the payroll workstream successful.
Key accountabilities
- Acts as an SME to advise on Payroll-related configuration/integration/data requirements during the Testing Phases
- Responsible for managing and facilitating the Payroll Test approach
- Responsible for managing the development of the Payroll Test strategy in conjunction and through liaising with the functional, integration and data workstreams
- Responsible for oversite and management to ensure the effective delivery of Integrated Testing
- Responsible for oversite and management to ensure the effective delivery of Parallel Payroll Testing
- Responsible for doing impact assessment with the changing requirements and approach.
- Responsible for highlighting and documenting payroll testing related risks and issues to the payroll workstream lead, or wider programme team, as appropriate
- Responsible for development of Payroll-related test scenarios
- Responsible for coordinating between the programme team, 3rd party vendors and business users.
Essential Education
BA/BS in associated field (Degree Level Education)
Experience and job requirements
- Experience of managing test activities as part of a Global, complex, Workday implementation into ADP GlobalView and Streamline environments (and ideally BDO)
- Experience of managing a Payroll Test strategy and timelines
- Experience of managing test activities in a multi-country environment
- Experience of managing test teams in a multi-location, Matrix environment
- Experience of managing the relationship with 3rd party payroll providers to ensure tasks and activities reliant on them are successfully achieved
- Knowledge of Workday Business Process and Integrations
- Knowledge of SAP environments
- Knowledge of Time and Attendance systems/functionality would be useful (Kronos in particular)
Desirable criteria & qualifications
- A detailed understanding of holistic payroll testing - SIT, E2E and parallel approaches
- Experience with Workday, SAP and ADP payrolls
- Experience in working in a HR operational/payroll team environment
- Experience in working with HR, Time and payroll data, including analysis and report creation and conscious of the sensitivity of data
Candidate Profile
- Delivery focused
- Proactive in identifying and raising risks and issues
- Team player
- Confident and dynamic
- Intellectually bright and curious, with strong analytical skills
- Always looking for improvements in process and system quality and consistency
- Excellent verbal and communication skills
- Well-developed attention to detail
- Flexible and facilitative
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