Deloitte
Director, Payroll Advisory

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Director, Payroll Advisory
Location
Hybrid working with a requirement to be based on one of the following Deloitte offices (London, Bristol, or Reading). Occasional travel may also be required for client projects, and you may be required to spend time off-site with regional clients.
Work Pattern
This is a permanent opportunity.
Position Summary
Connect to your Industry
Payroll & Workforce Management at Deloitte is all about solving our clients’ challenges. The Director for PWFM Implementation Support is responsible for defining, building, and scaling a market-leading implementation support offering that enables successful client adoption and long-term value realisation. The role focuses on developing repeatable services, methodologies, and delivery capabilities, while aligning people, processes, and technology to create a differentiated and commercially successful proposition. Working across sales, delivery, and alliance partners, the Director ensures the offering evolves to meet market demand and supports sustainable business growth.
Connect to your career at Deloitte
Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.
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It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs, and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.
Connect to your opportunity
Deloitte is renowned in the marketplace for its innovative and collaborative culture, commitment to delivering an outstanding quality of client service, and enabling its own people to excel in everything they do. Deloitte's breadth and depth of services make it a leading force in its chosen areas of business and it works with clients who vary from owner-managed businesses to large multinational operations and publicly owned organisations.
Payroll & Workforce Management is a growth area for Deloitte focused on supporting clients with the design and delivery of market-leading payroll functions. The team support clients across key areas such as payroll operational reviews (UK and global), development of payroll strategies (UK and global), vendor and/or system selection and implementation support.
Examples of recent projects our Payroll & Workforce Management team have supported include reviewing a pharmaceutical organisation's payroll function, system selection for a European retailer, project management of a European outsourced Payroll for a global manufacturer, and development of a global payroll strategy for a global manufacturer.
Our team is system and vendor agnostic, which enables us to build relationships and work with the major payroll vendors providing UK and global services.
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We encourage consideration of flexible ways of working, both formal and informal arrangements that allow for the best outcomes for our people and our clients. If this opportunity is of interest to you with some flexibility, please do discuss with us.
Connect to your skills and professional experience
- CIPP or similar qualified or equivalent experience, including experience of the full annual payroll cycle
- Understanding of operational payroll within a large organisation or payroll vendor
- Knowledge and understanding of payroll business processes
- Experience of leading the delivery of payroll advisory projects (or managing the payroll workstream within an HR transformation project) (client-facing or internal)
- Experience of full life cycle payroll advisory projects including scoping, contracting, billing, and cash collection
- Experience of working with multiple client stakeholders across industry sectors on a UK and global basis
- Strong technical drafting skills and verbal communication skills
- Effective prioritisation management and organisational skills, including the ability to lead and manage multiple client projects
- Strong team-player and experience of developing and coaching high-performance teams across multiple geographies
- Working with 3rd parties, including payroll vendors
- Knowledge and implementation experience of 3rd party HR and payroll solutions including Workday, Dayforce, and UKG
- Analytical skills used to derive insight from complex and varied information sources and preparation of project recommendations
- Excellent attention to detail
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including business report writing, preparation, and delivery of presentations, workshop participation, and leadership
- Experience in preparing and delivering client proposals, including proactive engagement in seeking and securing new client projects
- Involvement in client seminars and the production of marketing materials
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Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry, and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds, etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.


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Our Hybrid Working Policy
You’ll be based in London, Reading, or Bristol with hybrid working.
At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites, and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.
Our Commitment to You
Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.
We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective, and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.
Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.
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A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.
Basic Information
- Location: London
- Business Line: Tax & Legal
- Job Type: Permanent / FTC
- Date Published: 18-Sep-2026
- Req #: 25200
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