Position Payroll Project Support - 12 Month FTC
Location Working from home with Excess to travel to Chippenham.
Salary £45k plus benefits
Ref 73544
My client is looking for an experienced Payroll Project SME to join the Merlin Project team, within the Payroll and T&A workstream. Project Merlin is a change program engaged to replace the current back-office solutions for HR, Payroll and Finance. The successful candidate will work with the project team to take the second implementation phase of payroll through complete testing, parallel running and into a live environment.
Remote working will be supported but attendance to their Chippenham Office will be required particularly for the design playbacks and UAT
Duties and responsibilities:
Understand my client's business requirements, Payroll processes, approvals & workflows, work patterns and rules-based calculations. With the ability to assess the impact of adopting the relevant Oracle standard processes.
Build strong working relationships between the Payroll and Project Merlin Team. Collaborating with key stakeholders, providing dedicated technical guidance and support.
Support all Payroll testing activities, including UAT, continually reviewing Payroll test scenarios to ensure all eventualities are covered and within scope.
Support on all data migration activities, cut over planning and all aspects of implementation.
Support with Payroll parallel run activities, ensuring all Payroll operational tasks are delivered within the agreed project timelines. Working in collaboration with the Payroll and Project team to effectively manage all risks and issues.
Support the live running of Payroll as it moves from implementation to business as usual. Identifying any issues and addressing accordingly, providing post go live support.
Support on a full handover to the Payroll team to ensure payroll runs smoothly within the live environment.
Help define Best Practice Payroll Processes and Reporting requirements from Payroll Production through to general ledger.
Identify change impacts and work with the business to understand the changes required to working practises and behaviour.
Input into the design of any Payroll training material and delivery planning.
Experience, skills, and attributes:
Extensive Payroll Knowledge and understanding of UK payroll legislation
Experience of Payroll Project Support
Experience of Oracle Cloud
Future thinking with and curious and open mind
High degrees of initiative, accuracy, efficiency and attention to detail
Able to work at pace and be pragmatic
Problem Solving
Ability to take a logical and practical approach
Clear customer focus
Team player
Concern for deadline and quality requirements
Influencing skills and engagement with differing client groups
Ability to multitask, work to deadlines, prioritise under pressure
Excellent organisational skills
Understanding of process improvement and business change
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