Network Rail Jobs Near Me – Payroll Project In Milton Keynes

Overview

Position Title: Payroll Project

Company:  Network Rail

Location:  Milton Keynes, UK

Job Description

You will be supporting the business to transition an outsourced payroll for approx.16,500 employees onto our inhouse payroll platform. You’ll work with the current third-party supplier and the implementation partner to support the system requirements; system build and implementation of an effective payroll service. You’ll need to understand and review the current service, system, processes and T&C’s in order to make sure the internal system is built to requirements. You’ll be involved in parallel runs, user acceptance testing (UAT), risk mitigation activity as well as providing updates to key stakeholders. You’ll be responsible for ensuring the payroll teams are kept up to date; you’ll arrange work schedules, resource planning, system integration, and create standard operating procedures to deliver effective training programmes.

 

Responsibilities:

• You’ll need to ensure the project is on track to deliver to the agreed timescales/deadlines.
• You need to be methodical, have great attention to detail and be well organised to support the project.
• You will be responsible for ‘go live’ activities, and post ‘go live’ support
• You’ll need excellent written and verbal communication skills to deliver updates to key stakeholders and the payroll teams
• You’ll need to be a good communicator, build strong working relationships with external partners.
• You will highlight any risks, issues and opportunities for improvement

 

Requirements:

• Parallel runs and UAT testing experience
• Payroll systems experience (preferably Oracle or similar)
• Experience of leading and motivating a team through change
• Extensive payroll knowledge and experience, with some payroll implementation knowledge