Payroll Transformation Director

At Capgemini Invent, we help our clients to drive business growth and transformation through innovative HR and payroll solutions.

As a Payroll Transformation Director, you will play a key role in shaping the future of our clients' HR and payroll functions, leveraging cutting-edge cloud technologies and data-driven insights to drive business outcomes.

With a strong background in HR and payroll transformation, you will lead the development of HR and payroll service delivery catalogues, service delivery models, and strategies, articulated through technology deployments.

You will also lead the delivery of HR and payroll functional designs, including requirements gathering, gap analysis, and process redesign, to drive innovation and efficiency in our clients' HR and payroll functions.

As a member of our Employee Experience & HR team, you will work closely with our clients to understand their business needs and develop tailored HR and payroll solutions that meet their unique requirements.

With a focus on employee experience, you will design and deploy employee experience strategies through technology, including Moments that Matter, Personas, and Employee Journeys.

As a strategic leader, you will also drive business development activities, pursuing new client opportunities in the HR Transformation space with a focus on payroll and related processes.

Key expectations of the role include:

• Develop and communicate a clear vision and strategy for payroll transformation services aligned with the broader Capgemini Invent's goals
• Lead, design, and deliver payroll transformation programmes with remit across the end solution including systems, processes, services, and organisation
• Act as Engagement Director in payroll or wider HR implementations underpinned by SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll (ECP) / SAP HCM, Workday Payroll, Oracle Payroll, or other Cloud solutions
• Lead multiple and complex engagements – concurrent ones at times
• Manage relationships with the clients, external parties, and vendors
• Lead business development activities and pursue new client opportunities in the HR Transformation space with focus on payroll and related processes
• Drive financial and commercial sides of client engagements including budgeting, forecasting, and cost control
• Lead and coach EX & HR Transformation team members, supporting personal development and driving team growth, fostering a culture that embraces inclusion and diversity
• Act as a strategic leader with in-depth understanding of payroll processes and technology, and focus on compliance, risk management, and continuous improvement

As part of your role, you will also have the opportunity to contribute to the business and your own personal growth, through activities that form part of the following categories:

• Business Development – Leading/contributing to proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development, client pitch contribution, client hosting at events
• Internal contribution – Campaign development, internal think-tanks, whitepapers, practice development (operations, recruitment, team events & activities), offering development
• Learning & development – Training to support your career development and the skills demand within the company, certifications, etc.

We'd love to meet someone with:

• Leading HR and Payroll transformations through cloud technologies (SAP HCM / SuccessFactors, Workday, and/or Oracle) and tools enabled by AI/RPA and Machine Learning
• Leading the development of HR and Payroll service delivery catalogue, service delivery model, and strategies articulated through technology deployments
• Leading the delivery of HR and Payroll functional designs including requirements gathering, gap analysis, and process redesign
• Leading the design of an HR strategy and holistic health check of the HR and Payroll function
• Lead the delivery of end-to-end HR Transformation building next gen target operating models for complex organisations including service delivery, process reengineering, and organisation design with focus on payroll
• Lead the design and deployment employee experience strategy through technology (including Moments that Matter, Personas, Employee Journeys)

Or/and, you will have expertise in relatable areas such as:

• Leading the supporting transformation and change management stream in a HR Cloud solution deployment in large scale organisations
• Proven ability to be successful in a matrixed organisation, and to enlist support and commitment from peers in selling and delivering consulting solutions
• Experience of proposition building and delivery
• Currently working in a major Consulting firm, and/or in industry but having a Consulting background

At Capgemini, we don't just believe in Diversity & Inclusion, we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Active Inclusion Campaign, we build environments where you can bring your whole self to work.

We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work-life balance. Through our New Normal campaign, we are looking to embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.

Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing, we have trained 'Mental Health Champions' across each of our business areas. We have also invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

We really believe in creating a partnership with our customers. Using our Accelerated Solutions Environment (ASE), you'll get to know the customer's needs and challenges, demo innovative solutions, and quickly solve problems. It'll help you discover unexpected answers together.

There's an endless amount to learn at Capgemini, and an endless number of ways to do so. So, you'll also have unique training opportunities to take advantage of. Some of our consultants even have the chance to go to Les Fontaine (near Paris, France), where we host a conference. Outside of dedicated training, everyone makes time to help and support one another - collaboration is encouraged across all our teams.

We're also focused on using tech to have a positive social impact. So, we're working to reduce our own carbon footprint and improve everyone's access to a digital world. It's something we're really serious about. In fact, we were even named as one of the world's most ethical companies by the Ethisphere Institute for the 10th year. When you join Capgemini, you'll join a team that does the right thing.

Whilst you will have London, Manchester, or Glasgow as an office base location, you must be fully flexible in terms of assignment location, as these roles may involve periods of time away from home at short notice.

We offer a remuneration package which includes flexible benefits options for you to choose to suit your own personal circumstances and a variable element dependent grade and on company and personal performance.

In order to commence a role with Capgemini UK plc, you will be required to provide documentary proof prior to joining the Company that you are entitled to live and work in the UK.