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
