# UK Payroll Renewal Analyst

**Company**: Ford
**Location**: Dunton, Essex
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Job type**: temporary
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Automotive

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## Description

We are seeking a motivated and talented individual to join our Business Development team as a UK Payroll Renewal Analyst. This is a temporary project position for a fixed period of 18 months, with the opportunity to play a meaningful role in transforming how payroll is delivered to thousands of employees.

The UK Payroll team is responsible for the timely, accurate, and compliant payment of salaries and wages to approximately 7,000 UK employees, together with all associated statutory deductions, reporting, and filings.

**Responsibilities:**

- Support team activities across payroll transformation

- Take ownership of assigned activities, ensuring delivery to agreed timelines and quality standards

- Collaborate with team members, sharing knowledge and escalating issues or risks where appropriate

- Support Payroll activities associated with implementation of the new payroll system

- Participate in requirements gathering with internal stakeholders and third-party system integrators

- Review system designs and requirements to identify potential payroll, control, and end-user impacts

- Develop strong knowledge of the new payroll system and its functionality to support successful delivery

- Support payroll changes through requirements, design, testing, and deployment

- Prepare and maintain project documentation in line with governance and control requirements

- Provide analysis and evidence to support project decisions and implementation readiness

- Develop and execute Payroll testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

- Ensure testing provides appropriate coverage of payroll requirements, processes, and controls

- Analyse test results, maintain supporting evidence, and identify and track defects through to resolution

- Assess the potential payroll, financial, employee, and compliance impact of identified issues

- Maintain accurate project documentation and provide progress updates to the project team and management

- Build effective working relationships across Payroll, HR, Finance, IT, and external partners

- Participate in project meetings, design workshops, and change discussions

- Support end-user engagement, deployment readiness, training, and documentation

- Participate in post-implementation support and lessons-learned activities

**Qualifications:**

- Experience in project management and test planning, including delivering to tight deadlines and working autonomously

- Ability to work with large data sets, including complex analysis and problem-solving

- Strong Excel skill set required

- Logical, process-orientated mindset

- Ability to work with others as part of a team, including cross-functional and external partners

- Excellent communication skills with proven ability to communicate at all levels of the organisation and with stakeholders with both technical and non-technical backgrounds

- Ability to work accurately and efficiently under acute time pressure

- Adaptable yet with a strong control mindset

- Timekeeping, Payroll, or HR experience

- Knowledge of Hourly Blue Book and Salary Handbook would be an advantage

- Experience with Payroll Applications SAP/Global View

## Skills

### Required
- project management
- test planning
- Excel
- problem-solving
- communication skills
- Payroll
- SAP/Global View

### Nice to have
- Hourly Blue Book
- Salary Handbook

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