Payroll Transformation Specialist – UK & Europe (24 month Fixed Term)
The Payroll Transformation Specialist, based in London, will play a critical role in delivering payroll change initiatives across the UK and Europe (specifically France and Germany). The role complements the existing Payroll Operations team, who manage business‑as‑usual payroll delivery and act as subject‑matter experts for country‑specific payroll requirements and implementations. The Specialist will focus on project execution, systems enablement, and change delivery, ensuring solutions are practical, compliant, and successfully embedded into BAU operations.
This role requires payroll expertise combined with strong systems and project delivery experience across France, Germany and the UK. The successful candidate will partner closely with HR, Finance, IT, and external vendors to lead and support payroll implementations, optimisations, and transformation projects, with a strong focus on ADP GlobalView / Celergo.
Ideal for a payroll professional who enjoys working in complex environments, leading change, and improving payroll processes through technology and standardisation.
Responsibilities
- Act as the Payroll subject‑matter lead within transformation and implementation projects, working alongside the central Project Management Office and EMEA Payroll Team.
- Work closely with the Payroll Operations (BAU) teams, ensuring payroll requirements, country nuances, statutory obligations, and operational processes are fully understood, designed, tested, and embedded within project solutions.
- Represent payroll interests across project forums, ensuring payroll impacts are visible, understood, and addressed throughout the project lifecycle.
- Provide governance and challenge to ensure payroll solutions are operationally viable and sustainable post‑go‑live.
- Coordinate payroll team inputs into projects, ensuring timely and high‑quality delivery of payroll activities, including requirements validation, testing, and readiness.
- Ensure effective handover of new processes, systems, and changes into BAU payroll operations, including documentation, controls, and knowledge transfer.
- Ensure all payroll scenarios, exceptions, statutory calculations, and country‑specific nuances are thoroughly tested and signed off.
- Review payroll outputs, reconciliations, and reports to confirm accuracy, compliance, and operational feasibility prior to go‑live.
- Provide hands‑on payroll systems expertise across ADP GlobalView and ADP Celergo, ensuring payroll configuration and integrations meet business and statutory requirements.
- Validate payroll data flows, interfaces, and downstream impacts between Workday, payroll providers, and other systems.
- Support issue resolution related to payroll design, configuration, or data during and after implementations.
- Partner with external payroll vendors to ensure payroll design and delivery meets agreed standards and country requirements.
- Identify and escalat(e) payroll risks, gaps, or readiness concerns early and pragmatically to support mitigation planning.
- Ensure payroll controls, audit requirements, and compliance considerations are built into new solutions.
- Contribute to standardisation, documentation, and continuous improvement of global payroll practices.
Qualifications
- Minimum of 6 years of experience working in international teams with specifically France, Germany and UK hands‑on knowledge of payroll processing and country‑specific statutory requirements.
- Demonstrated experience supporting payroll transformation, system implementation, or change projects, acting as a payroll subject‑matter expert with ADP GlobalView / Celergo.
- Ability to translate payroll requirements into clear guidance for non‑payroll stakeholders and project teams.
- Strong experience validating payroll configurations, integrations, and data flows between HR, payroll, and finance systems.
- Experience coordinating payroll inputs and deliverables to ensure payroll teams meet project timelines and quality expectations.
- Proven ability to raise risks, challenge solutions constructively, and safeguard payroll outcomes.
- Confidence engaging with vendors (e.g. ADP) to validate solutions and resolve payroll‑related issues.
- Strong experience in stakeholder management within complex payroll and transformation environments, ensuring the right people are engaged at the right time.
- Ability to keep key stakeholders informed through clear, timely, and structured communication, escalating risks or gaps appropriately.
- Proven ability to operate within and uphold RACI frameworks, clearly understanding and reinforcing accountability across Payroll, HR, Finance, IT, vendors, and project teams.
Benefits
A&M provides a supportive employee experience with recognition of professional and personal development, training, and a culture that rewards contribution and supports work‑life balance.
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