Payroll Transformation Specialist - UK & Europe - 24 months Fixed Term Employment

Position Overview

The Payroll Transformation Specialist (London) will deliver payroll change initiatives across the UK, France and Germany.

This role complements the existing Payroll Operations team that manages day‑to‑day payroll delivery and serves as subject‑matter experts for country‑specific payroll requirements and implementations.

The specialist focuses on project execution, systems enablement and change delivery, ensuring solutions are practical, compliant and embedded into BAU operations.

Key focus on ADP Global View / Celergo.

The successful candidate will partner with HR, Finance, IT and external vendors to lead and support payroll implementations, optimisations and transformation projects.

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, who retain ownership of day‑to‑day payroll delivery to ensure 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 Global View 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 elevate 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, specifically with hands‑on knowledge of payroll processing and country‑specific statutory requirements in France, Germany and the UK.
• Demonstrated experience supporting payroll transformation, system implementation or change projects, acting as a payroll subject‑matter expert with ADP Global View / 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.
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