Key Skills

Job Description

The Payroll Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) are responsible for overseeing and ensuring successful payroll outcomes on behalf of the client across their respective countries. This role involves close collaboration with Regional SMEs and ADP to support payroll operations, ensure accuracy and compliance, and facilitate effective payroll delivery across the UK, the Netherlands, and Thailand within the Celergo payroll framework. Responsibilities Lead the client's payroll workstream across the UK, Netherlands, and Thailand. Represent the client in Lyric Payroll design for the US and Canada: earnings, deductions, taxes, garnishments, GL mapping, pay calendars, and year-end. Define payroll requirements that depend on HR, Benefits, ACA, Leave Administration, and Workforce Suite (time-to-pay). Review payroll data conversion mapping, including year-to-date balances and history. Plan and lead payroll comparison (parallel) testing, variance analysis, and resolution with ADP. Set payroll go-live readiness criteria and support the final conversion. Support the first live payrolls and stabilization, including reconciliation and issue resolution. Coordinate Regional SMEs and the Celergo workstream so all countries follow one design and test approach.

Core Responsibilities

Lead the client payroll workstream across the UK, the Netherlands, and Thailand, coordinating regional teams and ADP to ensure consistent payroll design, testing, compliance, and delivery. Oversee payroll conversion, parallel testing, go-live readiness, and stabilization, including reconciliation and issue resolution.

Requirements

The role calls for expertise in payroll operations and design, including earnings, deductions, taxes, garnishments, general ledger mapping, pay calendars, and year-end processes. It also requires experience coordinating regional stakeholders, reviewing payroll data conversions, leading parallel testing and variance resolution, and supporting payroll go-live and stabilization.