# UK Payroll Renewal Manager **Company**: Ford **Location**: Dunton, Essex **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: temporary **Category**: Finance **Industry**: Automotive **Apply**: https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/72611?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_631cb388-a4c ## Description We are seeking a UK Payroll Renewal Manager to lead the delivery of a major transformation programme to replace our existing payroll application. As a UK Payroll Renewal Manager, you will be part of a collaborative team leading the delivery of a high-profile project, gaining valuable experience, developing new skills, and making a tangible impact on the future of UK Payroll. The role will act as a key interface between Payroll, HR, Finance, IT, third-party system integrators, and other internal and external stakeholders. **Responsibilities:** - Lead, prioritise, and coordinate team activities across payroll transformation and business-as-usual change. - Provide day-to-day leadership, coaching, and support, ensuring clear ownership and delivery expectations. - Review team outputs, develop capability, and act as an escalation point for complex issues and risks. - Lead Payroll activities supporting implementation of the new payroll system. - Manage requirements with internal stakeholders and third-party system integrators. - Review and challenge system designs to ensure payroll, control, statutory, and end-user requirements are met. - Develop strong system knowledge to support effective decision-making and delivery. - Lead payroll changes through requirements, design, testing, approval, and deployment. - Review and approve key project documentation and ensure appropriate governance and controls. - Assess risks, establish mitigation actions, and support go/no-go decisions. - Escalate significant risks, issues, and control concerns appropriately. - Lead and coordinate Payroll testing and User Acceptance Testing. - Ensure UAT provides appropriate coverage of payroll requirements and controls. - Review testing evidence and oversee defect identification, prioritisation, and resolution. - Assess significant defects and their potential payroll, financial, employee, and compliance impact. - Coordinate project plans, priorities, resources, milestones, and dependencies across multiple change initiatives. - Monitor progress, identify risks, and drive issues through to resolution. - Ensure accurate project documentation and provide clear status reporting to management and stakeholders. - Build strong relationships across Payroll, HR, Finance, IT, and external partners. - Represent Payroll in project, design, and governance forums. - Communicate complex payroll and technical requirements clearly to different audiences. - Manage expectations and constructively challenge suppliers and project teams where required. - Lead payroll process changes and identify opportunities for simplification, standardisation, and automation. - Ensure changes maintain appropriate payroll and financial controls. - Coordinate end-user engagement, deployment readiness, training, and supporting documentation. - Oversee post-implementation support and lessons learned. **Qualifications:** - Experience of supervising, coaching, or providing day-to-day leadership to team members, project resources, or cross-functional workstreams. - Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities, dependencies, and tight deadlines. - Strong analytical and problem-solving capability. - Advanced Excel skills with the ability to analyse, reconcile, and interpret complex data. - Strong logical and process-orientated mindset. - Strong control mindset with the ability to identify and manage financial, operational, and compliance risks. - Ability to review and challenge requirements, system designs, testing outcomes, and proposed solutions. - Experience of working effectively with cross-functional teams and external partners or suppliers. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate confidently at all levels of the organisation. - Strong stakeholder management skills with the confidence to challenge, influence, and escalate where appropriate. - Ability to work autonomously, make informed decisions, and take accountability for delivery. - Ability to maintain accuracy, judgement, and effective control while working under significant time pressure. - Knowledge of UK payroll processes, statutory requirements, and payroll controls. - Experience with enterprise Payroll/HR systems including SAP/Global View. - Knowledge of Hourly Blue Book and Salary Handbook provisions would be advantageous. ## Skills ### Required - project management - analytical and problem-solving - Excel - payroll processes - statutory requirements - payroll controls - SAP/Global View - stakeholder management - communication - leadership ### Nice to have - Hourly Blue Book - Salary Handbook --- Source: [Apply at efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com](https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/72611?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)