HR Operations and Payroll Implementation Manager
Job Description
Job title: HR Operations and Payroll Implementation Manager
Company: Informa
Job description: Company Description
Informa is a leading international events, intelligence and scholarly research group.
We’re the specialist’s specialist. Through hundreds of powerful brands, we work with businesses and professionals in specialist markets, providing the connections, intelligence and opportunities that help customers grow, do business, make breakthroughs and take better informed decisions.
Informa is listed on London Stock Exchange and a member of FTSE 100, with over 10,000 colleagues working in more than 30 countries.
Job Description
Reporting to the Global Head of HR Shared Services, this is a strategic role that will own and lead the effective implementation and change of Informa payroll & Global HR Operations services. This will be done against a strong environment of Mergers & Acquisitions and will work alongside the current landscape which has multiple external payroll providers and HR operations platforms. In the EMEA region alone there are currently 3,500 employees in 10 countries with 32 separate payrolls and multiple operations platforms.
- Lead project(s) throughout the full life cycle including definition, management and reporting, business change impact assessments, and transition to business-as-usual operations.
- Manage project business cases on behalf of the sponsor, including budget and benefits realisation.
- Perform business and systems process mapping and gap analysis.
- Document system and interface requirements and, where necessary, associated specifications
- Setup new entity payrolls including PAYE registrations, system selection and payroll set up
- Manage transition of payroll off-boarding during divestitures, including data migration and other requirements during TSA periods
- Ensure ongoing data integrity, defining mapping tables, carrying out data migration, testing, parallel runs and reconciliations.
- Document operational processes in desk procedures and training guides for operational teams
- Ensure stakeholder engagement is centric to overall delivery, maintaining proactive communications with internal and external parties, including Payroll, HR operations, Pensions, Benefits, Finance, Technology, and payroll bureaus.
Qualifications
- Proficient in payroll management and ideally IPPM qualified, with a sound knowledge of payroll rules and regulations, pension schemes and auto enrolment, financial control principles and accounting practices.
- Strong project and change management experience, preferably with relevant professional qualification(s).
- Excellent senior and steerco stakeholder management experience.
- Experienced in working in complex global organisations, and in M&A situations.
- Well organised, practised in maintaining professional standards whilst meeting tight deadlines.
- Excellent relationship management, communication, and negotiation skills.
- Experienced in leading teams of both direct and indirect reports.
- Flexible, adaptable and a role model to others.
Additional Information
Why work at Informa?
Employee experience is very important to us at Informa. On top of joining a supportive, diverse and ambitious team that welcomes all types of candidates. We are also flexible with different working patterns and prioritize promotions internally.
Our benefits include:
- Tailored development opportunities and on-demand access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn
- Balance time in the office with time working remotely, feeling fully supported wherever you are
- 25 days annual leave, 4 days for volunteering and a day off for your birthday!
- The chance to work from (almost!) anywhere across the globe, four weeks a year
- Competitive and rewarding benefits, tailored to each of our regions
- Work with high quality specialist products
- Bright and friendly staff who are all “expert’s experts” and additional training and development for helping you achieve your career aspiration
- The chance to become an Informa shareholder, with extra rewards just for colleagues
- Regular social events and networking opportunities
We know that sometimes the ‘perfect candidate’ doesn’t exist, and that people can be put off applying for a job if they don’t fit all the requirements. If you’re excited about working for us and have most of the skills or experience we’re looking for, please go ahead and apply. You could be just what we need! We believe strongly in the value of diversity and creating supportive, inclusive environments where our colleagues can succeed.
As such, Informa is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other protected characteristics under federal, state or local law.
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Location: London
