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Payroll Implementation Consultant

Executive Talent
Contract
On-site
Newbridge, Caerphilly County Borough, United Kingdom
Payroll Analyst Jobs
Job Profile
Payroll Operations - Payroll Support
Title
Implementation Consultant

About the role
Key Responsibilities:
  • Use your excellent understanding of UK payroll procedures to fully understand how your client is currently operating & adapt this to our standard model. 
  • Understand & be able to articulate all the information that must be stored against an employee in order to successfully operate a payroll.
  • Analyse client requirements & develop appropriate solutions, identifying areas for improvement in conjunction with the client.
  • Document client processes & payroll rules for a clear handover to the Service Delivery Teams.
  • Demonstrate an ability to solve problems in an efficient, new &  innovative way but also recognise when to seek assistance from colleagues.
  • Identify where standard solutions could be used rather than bespoke solutions.
  • Complete Process Instructions and perform full hand-overs of to Service Delivery Teams.
  • Be comfortable & professional working with senior internal / external stakeholders up to board level.
  • To act as the central point of contact between clients & internal teams ensuring that build data documents are completed and acted upon in an accurate and timely fashion.
  • Produce clear project plans with schedules and milestones so that your clients and internal colleagues are fully aware of their requirements & associated timeframes.
  • Deal with client queries and ensure that clients adhere to their pre-agreed implementation schedule.
  • Deal with internal / external customer contacts to progress incidents to resolution.
  • Provide excellent client care and build a working relationship with your clients by demonstrating knowledge and experience.
  • Identify issues & instigate corrective action.
  • Show commercial awareness in order to maximise the revenue & profitability of the business.
  • Attend client service review meetings & other meetings as required.
  • Change and Project Management.
  • Operate project management techniques to ensure that your portfolio of clients follow the standard process & complete on time.
  • Uses knowledge & experience to complete change in as efficient and cost-effective way as possible.
  • Understand what the client has paid for & generate additional charges as necessary to maximise revenue.
  • Maintain & update documentation as required.
  • If standard solutions aren’t available, design, where possible, bespoke solutions that can be re-used as a standard solution.
  • Provide advice & guidance where necessary to other team members.
  • Act as a Mentor to colleagues, particularly to Implementation Support Consultants.
  • Identify areas for improvement & produce clear documentation on how to do this.
  • Perform effective hand-over of client implementations to Service Delivery Teams.
  • Identify & plan the training requirements of the client based on their products and services, and current levels of knowledge.
  • Provide documentation & training where required.
  • Challenge methods and seek to improve upon them in order to proactively impact working practices and the client experience. 
Skills and experience
  • Excellent payroll knowledge and previous experience of implementing payrolls with various levels of complexity.
  • Report writing skills.
  • Business Awareness.
  • Presentation skills.
  • Customer Care Training.
  • Client Focus and stakeholder management.
  • Basic Project Management skills.
  • Meticulous eye for detail and ability to reconcile and balance parallel runs.
  • Used to working to deadlines.
  • Can do attitude.
  • Proven ability in building & managing a change team to deliver value to the business - that maybe working both onshore & offshore.
  • Proven commercial ability to manage and control budgets.
  • Excellent interpersonal & communication skills.
About You:
  • Demonstrable experience in stakeholder management.
  • Demonstrable experience in team building and engagement.
  • Experience of working in a project role within a similar Finance or HR environment.
  • Experience and the ability to use improvement techniques such as Lean/Six Sigma.
  • Excellent planning, organisational skills and methodical approach.
  • Ability to influence and build robust business rationale that may affect a change in direction of a project or program.
  • Experience of working within a customer focused service environment.
  • Able to present complex information in a way that can be understood.
  • Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Confident nature with the ability to hold workshops, demonstrations and deliver presentations.