Payroll Lead Consultant (Unit4)

Payroll Lead Consultant (Unit4)
Location: Home Based
Salary: £65,000 - £75,000 (+ bonus, benefits)

Skills: Unit4 HCM / Payroll implementation experience, excellent communication skills, CIPD or similar HR / Payroll qualifications

We are looking to recruit a Payroll Lead Consultant for a leading software Consultancy. The Payroll Lead Consultant will have experience of implementing Unit4 HCM / Payroll solutions. As a Payroll Lead Consultant, you will play a pivotal role in leading implementation work with clients, ensuring they achieve optimal solutions to meet their business objectives.

This is a fully remote role with limited travel.

Key Responsibilities:

• Client Engagement: Work closely with clients through all stages of the Unit4 HCM / Payroll implementation process, from leading system design workshops to providing application consultancy and training.
• Scope Management: Ensure solutions remain within the agreed scope of the project, providing advice and guidance on best practice configured solutions and business processes.
• Solution Design: Lead and participate in client workshops to analyse requirements and proposed business processes, translating these into documented Solution Designs.
• Configuration: Configure the Unit4 ERP solution in line with documented and approved design specifications, alignment workbooks, build plans, and other supporting documentation.
• Implementation Leadership: Lead implementations, providing business sector and application design expertise, and collaborating with other workstream consultants as required.
• Pre-Sales Support: Assist with the pre-sales process, contributing to new business proposals, demonstrations, and client meetings.
• Technology Awareness: Keep up-to-date with technology, especially in relation to Unit4, and facilitate sharing of the latest product news and direction within the team.
• Promoting Best Practice: Promote best practice by assisting colleagues to provide best-in-class solutions to clients, through advice, guidance, and best practice templates and standards.

Essential Skills:

• Customer Relationship Building: Ability to develop and maintain excellent customer relationships, ensuring client satisfaction.
• Deadline Management: Ability to work to deadlines and tight timescales, ensuring project milestones are met.
• Unit4 Implementation Experience: Demonstrable experience of implementing Unit4 HCM / payroll software solutions, delivering high-quality outcomes.
• Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to deliver presentations to all levels, including senior stakeholders and C-level audience.
• Organisational Skills: Highly organised with excellent attention to detail, ensuring thorough project management.
• Initiative and Flexibility: Ability to work under own initiative as well as part of a team, adaptable with a can-do attitude.
• Commercial Awareness: Good commercial awareness, understanding the business context and implications of solutions.

Desirable Skills:

• Sector Experience: Knowledge and experience implementing Unit4 in Private and Public Sectors, understanding diverse client environments.
• HR / Payroll Qualifications: CIPD or similar HR / payroll qualifications
• Project Delivery Experience: Experience working as part of a multi-disciplined project delivery team, ensuring collaboration and synergy.
• Methodology Understanding: Understanding of implementation methodologies such as Prince2, PMI, enhancing project management capabilities.