Senior Payroll Consultant - MENA Payroll SME & Solutions

Darwinbox; Dubai; On-site; AED 260,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Darwinbox, based in DIFC, Dubai, is seeking a Senior Payroll Consultant to anchor end-to-end payroll solutions for GCC clients. You will lead discovery, define blueprints, drive testing, and own go-live across UAE, KSA, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait and Egypt.

This is a pure individual contributor role with heavy client interaction and product feedback. Fluent Arabic is required to engage effectively with stakeholders across the region.

Qualifications

• Arabic fluency is required for the role.
• Strong payroll domain knowledge needed across GCC/MENA contexts.

Responsibilities

• Lead client discovery, workshops and solution design with senior payroll, HR, and Finance stakeholders.
• Own the Blueprint end-to-end and secure client sign-off before configuration.
• Set client expectations on what is doable and what requires effort with clear reasoning.
• Walk the client through registers, outputs, and statutory reports at each validation checkpoint to enable client validation.
• Partner with the Central Delivery Team on configuration; review and validate before it reaches the client.
• Run internal test cycles, drive UAT, and lead parallel payroll; troubleshoot calculation deltas and coordinate resolution.
• Own cutover, YTD loads, and go-live for each engagement; deliver payroll functional training to client power users.
• Build deep payroll product knowledge in 3-6 months and provide practitioner voice into Product & Engineering on localization and gaps.
• Drive engagements to closure and ensure clients go-live and stabilize their payroll processes.

Skills

Arabic fluency

Payroll expertise

Client-facing consulting

Job description

Darwinbox, based in DIFC, Dubai, is seeking a Senior Payroll Consultant to anchor end-to-end payroll solutions for GCC clients. You will lead discovery, define blueprints, drive testing, and own go-live across UAE, KSA, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait and Egypt.

This is a pure individual contributor role with heavy client interaction and product feedback. Fluent Arabic is required to engage effectively with stakeholders across the region.