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Business Analyst - Payroll - Waterfall - HR
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Business Analyst - Payroll Transformation (24-Month FTC)
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Location: London (4 days per week onsite)
Contract: Full-Time, 24-Month Fixed Term Contract
Salary: Up to £80,000 plus 10% bonus, Private Medical Insurance (PMI) and excellent pension scheme
About The Role
We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst to play a key role in a major payroll implementation and optimisation programme as part of a wider people systems and operational transformation initiative. Working across a complex, multi-entity organisation, you will partner with Payroll, Finance, HR, Reward, IT and operational stakeholders to understand current payroll processes, define future business requirements, and support the successful delivery of a new payroll solution.
This opportunity is ideal for a Business Analyst with strong payroll expertise who enjoys working in a collaborative environment and can translate complex operational requirements into clear, actionable deliverables.
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Key Responsibilities
- Lead Business Analysis activities for the payroll transformation programme.
- Elicit, document and validate payroll business requirements across multiple operating companies.
- Map end-to-end payroll processes, identifying risks, controls, gaps and opportunities for standardisation.
- Produce high-quality business requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Translate payroll process requirements into clear specifications for implementation partners and solution providers.
- Validate payroll outputs, ensuring accuracy, compliance, auditability and alignment with Finance requirements.
- Lead or support User Acceptance Testing (UAT), including test planning, scenario creation, execution, payroll reconciliation and defect management.
Skills & Experience Required
- Proven experience as a Business Analyst on payroll implementation, transformation or optimisation projects.
- Strong payroll process knowledge, including inputs, calculations, approvals, controls and outputs.
- Skilled in process mapping, gap analysis and impact assessment.
- Ability to write clear user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Strong understanding of payroll controls, compliance, reconciliation and audit requirements.
- Experience supporting payroll UAT and validating payroll outcomes.
- Knowledge of workforce data dependencies and payroll-related finance postings.
- Experience working within complex, federated or decentralised organisations.
- Exposure to payroll technology selection, implementation or optimisation programmes is desirable.
- Experience partnering with Finance stakeholders on payroll costing, reconciliation and financial impacts.
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