Senior Global Payroll Strategy Consultant

Senior Global Payroll Strategy Consultant £80k to £90k + package - City

A true global leader in their field currently seek an experienced Global Payroll Strategy Consultant on a permanent basis.

This is a key hire for my client as they look to build out their Global Payroll Offering.

Agile working is also on offer for the right individual.

Responsibilities:

• Ability to lead a team
• Proactively manage stakeholder relationships with payroll providers and clients
• Experience of full payroll lifecycle from project management, requirements gathering and implementation
• Ability to solve complex payroll issues
• Strong understanding of the main global payroll providers
• Experience of drafting payroll solution RFPs for clients
• Ability to draft a global payroll strategy for a client demonstrating our breadth of knowledge of the global payroll marketplace
• A good understanding of potential payroll models - in house, outsourced, fully managed and the advantages and disadvantages of each
• Up to date knowledge of payroll compliance and legislation issues
• Ability to lead an RFP response from a client working under tight deadlines
• Ensuring any risks to the BAU payroll cycle are identified and mitigated, including additional controls and lessons learnt.

Key Skills:

• Experience of working with and managing relationships with a broad range of payroll providers: ADP, Workday, Oracle, SAP to name a few
• Experience of working with large/complex payrolls
• Strong relationship management skills
• Resilient under pressure, able to deliver under tight deadlines and manage a varied workload
• Self-starter, happy to work without supervision as well as part of a team
• Skilled in evaluating and analysing payroll activities
• Comfortable with complexity and able to explain complex issues/concepts in a simple way
• Able to communicate effectively with a variety of people across all levels of seniority and technical experience
• Payroll management certification
• Excellent presentation skills
• Advanced PowerPoint skills