Description
Payroll Consultant -Payroll Services - Workday - SAP HR - Sunbury/Remote - 12 months
Our client, a market leading multi-national technology company are looking for a Payroll Consultant, to join them in Sunbury/Remote. The assignment is an initial 12 month contract and can offer a competitive daily rate
Role Overview:
Our client is an internal global shared services organisation, responsible for delivering centralised and standardised HR services from several geographical delivery centres as appropriate for the footprint. They are are the first point of contact for HR related matters; the team are policy and process experts, dedicated to delivering the best customer experience.
This purpose of the Solution Lead (SL) is to own and drive a portion of the People & Culture (P&C) solution, encompassing both process and technology, ensuring that we deliver a great and efficient service for our people. The SL will build strong partnerships across P&C - with the relevant centre(s) of expertise, integrators, services teams and within the solutions teams. The SL will apply their technical expertise (process and technology) to deliver stable operations alongside projects and innovation.
Key skills needed:
Technical Capability
- Managing a part of the P&C solution - maintaining the health and operational integrity of your solutions/products, working with others to deliver stable operations
- Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and business needs, for example data privacy and digital security requirements
- Working closely with colleagues to ensure solutions/products co-exist seamlessly across P&C
- Managing a prioritised backlog of changes, covering maintenance, fixes (non-urgent) and improvements
- Planning, organising, and leading the design, configuration, testing, and deployment of features/solutions for your part of the P&C solution
- Supporting and executing aspects of change projects, delivering to time; cost; and quality, managing risks - organize and execute activities, under limited supervision, by facilitating design sessions, leading configuration, coordinating testing, and executing cutover
- Ability to seamlessly work with numerous stakeholders - with the relevant centre(s) of expertise, integrators, services teams, within the solutions teams, and with teams outside P&C such as colleagues in I&E or finance
- Evaluate, communicate, and coordinate the functional and technical impacts of configuration and other decisions to stakeholder groups
- Research and resolve process and technical problems, unexpected results or process flaws and recommend solutions or alternate methods to meet requirements
Business Capability
- People & business focus - all decisions clearly aligned to end user/business and strategy
- Verbal and written communication skills to interact with functional and technical colleagues, and end users, with a passion for customer service
- Business analysis skills: timeline planning, requirements definition and documentation, test planning, deployment approaches
- Ability to accurately collect information to understand and assess the clients' needs and situation. Adept documentation abilities, with experience in preparing business requirements, configuration documentation, test scripts and meeting notes. Experience of contributing to great employee/user experiences
- Ability to prioritize workload and execute tasks independently, providing timely follow-up and resolution
- Exhibit strong security and confidentiality practices
- Strong problem solving, troubleshooting and analytical skills - curiosity to get to the root cause and continuously learning
What do I need?
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and handle daily planned and unplanned operational activities
- Strong team synergy skills and ability to work collaboratively with others whom you have no direct authority over
- Effective communication skills, flexible style able to communicate effectively at all levels
- Is self-aware and skilled at managing impact on others
- Applies judgement and common sense at scale - demonstrates understanding of the wider business in support of cross segment/border working and ability to apply sound judgement/wise counsel
- Collaborates with payroll services, delivery service center leads and supports governance meetings with external vendors for both payroll and time solutions
Desirable Criteria
- Outsourced Payroll implementation experience with SAP HR
- Hands-on experience with Workday payroll integrations or SAP HR payroll integrations
- Experience working within a global organisation, including using social media style tools to support communications and engagement across time zones
- Workday Foundational training and Time & Absence certifications are advantageous
- Experience managing vendors supporting an outsourced payroll solution like ADP, BDO, and outsourced time solution like Kronos
Payroll Consultant -Payroll Services - Workday - SAP HR - Sunbury/Remote - 12 months