Senior Business Analyst - Payroll Transformation
Posted Today by Jobserve
£520 Per day
Inside
Remote
Reading, Remote work
Summary: We are seeking a Senior Business Analyst to support a major Payroll Transformation programme, focusing on capturing and defining payroll requirements and implementing a new payroll platform. The role involves collaboration with global and local payroll teams, vendors, and technical partners to ensure compliance and business needs are met. This position reports to the Lead Business Analyst and requires direct experience in payroll transformation projects.
Key Responsibilities:
- Capture, analyse, and document end to end payroll requirements, including statutory, regulatory, functional, operational, and integration needs.
- Develop detailed as is and to be payroll process maps, identifying gaps, risks, and improvement opportunities.
- Support the implementation of a new payroll platform and provider, producing requirements, data definitions, validation rules, and acceptance criteria.
- Facilitate workshops and discussions with payroll SMEs, finance teams, and in market stakeholders.
- Ensure payroll requirements are traceable through design, configuration, testing, and deployment.
- Collaborate with the vendor/provider during configuration reviews, functional design walkthroughs, and solution validation.
- Support payroll data migration activities, including mapping, transformation requirements, and reconciliation needs.
- Prepare and maintain high quality analysis artefacts including process flows, user stories, test scenarios, and documentation.
- Identify and escalate risks and dependencies associated with payroll timelines, compliance, or solution design.
Key Skills:
- Direct experience capturing and defining payroll requirements for a payroll transformation or system implementation.
- Hands on involvement in implementing a new payroll platform and onboarding a new payroll provider (eg, ADP, SD Worx, Ceridian, NGA/Alight, Workday Payroll).
- Experience producing payroll process maps, data requirements, and acceptance criteria.
- Previous experience supporting payroll UAT, data migration, reconciliation, or cutover activities is advantageous.
- Experience working in global or multi country payroll environments is highly desirable.
- Strong capability in requirements engineering, process analysis, and documentation.
- Understanding of end to end payroll processes, compliance requirements, and payroll operating models.
- Ability to run workshops and engage with global and local payroll SMEs.
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively within a complex, multi market programme environment.
- Detail oriented with strong organisational discipline.
Salary (Rate): £520 per day
City: Reading
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: Other
Senior Business Analyst - Payroll Transformation - HIRING ASAP
Start date: ASAP
Duration: 12 Months
Location: Remote working with visits to the Reading office every so often
Rate: £400 - £520 per day inside IR35
Summary
We are seeking a Senior Business Analyst to support a major Payroll Transformation programme. This role is suited to someone with direct experience capturing and defining payroll requirements and supporting the implementation of a new payroll platform alongside a new payroll provider.
You will work closely with global and local payroll teams, vendors, and technical delivery partners to ensure requirements are well defined, processes are clearly mapped, and the solution meets business and compliance needs. This role reports into the Lead Business Analyst.
Key Skills:
- Direct experience capturing and defining payroll requirements for a payroll transformation or system implementation.
- Hands on involvement in implementing a new payroll platform and onboarding a new payroll provider (eg, ADP, SD Worx, Ceridian, NGA/Alight, Workday Payroll).
- Experience producing payroll process maps, data requirements, and acceptance criteria.
- Previous experience supporting payroll UAT, data migration, reconciliation, or cutover activities is advantageous.
- Experience working in global or multi country payroll environments is highly desirable.
- Strong capability in requirements engineering, process analysis, and documentation.
- Understanding of end to end payroll processes, compliance requirements, and payroll operating models.
- Ability to run workshops and engage with global and local payroll SMEs.
- Excellent problem'solving, analytical, and communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively within a complex, multi market programme environment.
- Detail oriented with strong organisational discipline.
- Capture, analyse, and document end to end payroll requirements, including statutory, regulatory, functional, operational, and integration needs.
- Develop detailed as is and to be payroll process maps, identifying gaps, risks, and improvement opportunities.
- Support the implementation of a new payroll platform and provider, producing requirements, data definitions, validation rules, and acceptance criteria.
- Facilitate workshops and discussions with payroll SMEs, finance teams, and in market stakeholders.
- Ensure payroll requirements are traceable through design, configuration, testing, and deployment.
- Collaborate with the vendor/provider during configuration reviews, functional design walkthroughs, and solution validation.
- Support payroll data migration activities, including mapping, transformation requirements, and reconciliation needs.
- Prepare and maintain high quality analysis artefacts including process flows, user stories, test scenarios, and documentation.
- Identify and escalate risks and dependencies associated with payroll timelines, compliance, or solution design.
