Overview

In this role you will lead Stage 3 of a major Business Improvement Programme to modernise HR, payroll, finance and rostering platforms. You will oversee phased go-lives across multiple domains, ensuring continuity of frontline services. Working with process owners, suppliers and an executive sponsor, you drive design decisions, data migration, testing and go-live readiness. This is a delivery-focused, hands-on role with a strong influence on adoption of new ways of working within a dispersed, multi-site workforce.

Responsibilities

Own the detailed implementation plan and cutover strategy across all phases
Manage the implementation partner and supplier against the statement of work, including change control and milestone acceptance
Run the design authority for configuration decisions
Lead data migration from extract through to reconciliation and sign-off
Own the test strategy including parallel payroll running
Manage go/no-go decisions and business continuity at each cutover
Drive adoption of new ways of working across a dispersed, multi-site workforce

Key requirements

Full lifecycle delivery of at least one finance or HR/payroll implementation through to live running and stabilisation
Direct experience of a payroll go-live, including parallel running and statutory reporting
Proven management of an implementation partner or software supplier against a statement of work
Hands-on experience of data migration, reconciliation and formal business sign-off
Experience of phased, multi-module deployments
Working knowledge of finance, payroll and HR processes
Confidence managing senior stakeholders and holding suppliers to account

Stakeholder management
Change management and adoption
Communication and collaboration
PRINCE2
APM
Agile

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