Workday Payroll Landscape Testing Lead - Sunbury - 9 months - 382-499.84 per day - Sunbury-on-thames

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My client an Energy Trading Company based in Sunbury requires a Workday Payroll Landscape Testing Lead who will be responsible for the strategy, developing the detailed plan, understanding resource needs both from a central team and a country operations team, and managing the entire testing activity needed to make the payroll workstream successful.

Key accountabilities

Acts as an SME to advise on Payroll-related configuration/integration/data requirements during the Testing Phases

Responsible for managing and facilitating the Payroll Test approach

Responsible for managing the development of the Payroll Test strategy in conjunction and through liasing with the functional, integration and data workstreams

Responsible for oversite and management to ensure the effective delivery of Integrated Testing

Responsible for oversite and management to ensure the effective delivery of Parallel Payroll Testing

Responsible for doing impact assessment with the changing requirements and approach.

Responsible for highlighting and documenting payroll testing related risks and issues to the payroll workstream lead, or wider programme team, as appropriate

Responsible for development of Payroll-related test scenarios

Responsible for coordinating between the programme team, 3rd party vendors and business users.

Essential Education

BA/BS in associated field (Degree Level Education)

Experience and job requirements

Experience of managing test activities as part of a Global, complex, Workday implementation into ADP GlobalView and Streamline environments (and ideally BDO)

Experience of managing a Payroll Test strategy and timelines

Experience of managing test activities in a multi-country environment

Experience of managing test teams in a multi-location, matrix environment

Experience of managing the relationship with 3rd party payroll providers to ensure tasks and activities reliant on them are successfully achieved

Knowledge of Workday Business Process and Integrations

Knowledge of SAP environments

Knowledge of Time and Attendance systems/functionality would be useful (Kronos in particular)

Desirable criteria & qualifications

A detailed understanding of holistic payroll testing SIT, E2E and parallel approaches

Experience with Workday, SAP and ADP payrolls

Experience in working in a HR operational/payroll team environment

Experience in working with HR, Time and payroll data, including analysis and report creation and conscious of the sensitivity of data