Payroll Project Manager

Hybrid Working - Local - 1 day a month on site.

Financial Services

Lorien's leading Pensions and Investment is looking for an experienced Payroll Project Manager to lead the payroll workstream within a major transformation programme, migrating from Workday and associated payroll systems to Oracle HCM Cloud.

The successful candidate will combine strong project delivery experience with extensive payroll knowledge, ensuring successful implementation, data migration, testing, reconciliation and go-live.

A key focus will be payroll comparison and parallel payroll testing, ensuring accurate payroll calculations, variance resolution and robust controls before go-live.

The Ideal candidate is a hands-on Payroll Project Manager with deep payroll subject matter expertise, proven Oracle HCM Cloud implementation experience and a strong track record of delivering parallel payroll testing, reconciliation and successful payroll migrations.

This role is based UK Wide.

This role will be Via Umbrella.

Working in a Hybrid Model of 1 day a month on site.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end payroll workstream, covering design, configuration, data migration, testing, cutover, go-live and hypercare.
• Manage project plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues and governance.
• Own payroll comparison and parallel payroll testing, ensuring Oracle HCM outputs are accurately reconciled against existing payroll systems.
• Investigate and resolve payroll variances relating to calculations, data, configuration and integrations.
• Ensure accurate reconciliation of gross-to-net pay, PAYE, National Insurance, pensions, statutory payments and deductions.
• Oversee payroll data migration from Workday and associated systems, including payroll balances and historical data.
• Coordinate SIT, UAT, regression and end-to-end testing, covering complex payroll scenarios.
• Manage payroll cutover, production readiness, go-live and hypercare activities.
• Collaborate with Payroll, HR, Finance, Technology, Data Migration teams and Oracle implementation partners.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Proven experience as a Payroll Project Manager or Payroll Implementation Lead within large-scale HR/payroll transformation programmes.
• Strong Oracle HCM Cloud Payroll implementation experience - essential.
• Experience migrating from Workday or another enterprise HCM platform to Oracle HCM Cloud.
• Extensive experience leading payroll comparison and parallel payroll testing - essential.
• Strong knowledge of end-to-end UK payroll, including gross-to-net calculations, PAYE, National Insurance, statutory payments and pensions.
• Experience in payroll reconciliation, variance analysis, controls and payroll data migration.
• Understanding of complex payroll scenarios, payroll balances, effective-dated data and payroll interfaces.
• Experience managing SIT, UAT, regression testing, cutover, go-live and hypercare.
• Strong project management skills, including planning, RAID management, governance and stakeholder engagement.
• Experience managing Oracle implementation partners and third-party suppliers.

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Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Vertage Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.