Senior Payroll Transition Specialist
Posted Today by Jobserve
£600 Per day
Inside
Onsite
Basildon, Essex
Summary: The Senior Payroll Transition Specialist role involves leading payroll transitions across EMEA, specifically focusing on a migration from ADP Streamline to ADP Celergo in Germany. This hands-on position requires collaboration with payroll teams and vendors to ensure successful testing and implementation. The contract is for an initial period of six months and is based on-site in Basildon, UK. The role is classified as inside IR35.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead payroll vendor/platform transitions end-to-end
- Own payroll testing (strategy, scripts, execution, defect resolution)
- Support UAT, data validation, and parallel runs
- Drive accurate, reconciled payrolls through to go-live
- Create clear SOPs and ensure knowledge transfer
- Train teams on new systems and processes
- Act as payroll SME across Payroll, HR, Finance, and vendors
Key Skills:
- Proven experience delivering payroll transitions/implementations
- Strong ADP Celergo experience
- Germany payroll expertise (essential)
- Experience with payroll testing, parallel runs, and reconciliations
- Ability to operate hands-on in fast-paced environments
- Belgium/Netherlands payroll experience (desirable)
- Outsourced payroll/vendor management experience (desirable)
- German or Dutch language skills (desirable)
Salary (Rate): £600 daily
City: Basildon
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: Finance
Detailed Description From Employer:
Senior Payroll Transition Specialist
6 months initial contract
Basildon, UK (On-site, 5 days per week)
£550-600 per day (Inside IR35)
My client, in the Fintech industry are hiring a hands-on Payroll Transition Specialist to support major payroll transformation activity across EMEA.
In this role you'll lead end-to-end payroll transitions across Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands, including a key migration from ADP Streamline to ADP Celergo in Germany.
This is a delivery role - you'll be in the detail, working directly with payroll teams and vendors to ensure successful testing, transition, and go-live.
Key Responsibilities
Lead payroll vendor/platform transitions end-to-end
Own payroll testing (strategy, scripts, execution, defect resolution)
Support UAT, data validation, and parallel runs
Drive accurate, reconciled payrolls through to go-live
Create clear SOPs and ensure knowledge transfer
Train teams on new systems and processes
Act as payroll SME across Payroll, HR, Finance, and vendors
Key Requirements
Proven experience delivering payroll transitions/implementations
Strong ADP Celergo experience
Germany payroll expertise (essential)
Experience with payroll testing, parallel runs, and reconciliations
Ability to operate hands-on in fast-paced environments
Desirable:
Belgium/Netherlands payroll experience
Outsourced payroll/vendor management experience
German or Dutch language skills
Ideally you will have some of the below specific experience to be a suitable match for this engagement
High-impact transformation work across multiple countries
Full ownership of payroll transition delivery
Visible role working closely with key stakeholders
Disclaimer:
This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission. Where the role is marked as Outside IR35 in the advertisement this is subject to receipt of a final Status Determination Statement from the end Client and may be subject to change.