Workday Payroll Advisor - 6 Months FTC

As a Project Payroll Advisor, you ll play a key role in ensuring every detail of our payroll process is accurate, compliant, and delivered on time. You ll be part of a collaborative team that values precision, customer service, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Provide a high-quality end to end payroll service to the business in an accurate and timely manner

• Support Payroll department through Payroll Transition and Group Alignment, supporting project and change activities when required

• liaise with sites to fact find and identify pain points, working on resolutions, automating and streamlining processes where possible

• create process documentation in collaboration with the payroll team and business analyst

• creation of SOP s, in conjunction with the BAU payroll team

• training the payroll team on new ways of working & updated processes

• support testing and parallel runs

Capabilities

• Relevant Payroll qualification is essential, ideally CIPP qualified or relevant experience

• Subject matter expert in relation to current UK payroll and pension legislation with a passion for payroll controls and governance

• Good organisational awareness and an effective approach to problem solving

• Excellent communicator with the ability to build constructive and collaborative working relationships

• Excellent level of IT skills and analytical ability - including Excel

• Team player with the ability to work under pressure with a focus on attention to detail

• Experience of supporting on Payroll Transition

• Experience of Workday Payroll

• Payroll Project Management experience

• Proven expertise in payroll reconciliations

• Experience in payroll system migration