Associate Director, Payroll Consulting, Global Employer Services

Deloitte LLP; Newmarket; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A global consulting firm is seeking an Associate Director for Payroll & Workforce Management based in Ontario. You will drive client advisory projects, manage relationships, and ensure effective payroll solutions. Ideal candidates have strong payroll expertise, excellent communication skills, and the ability to lead teams effectively in a hybrid environment. This role offers career progression and a supportive team culture.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Career development opportunities

Supportive team culture

Qualifications

• Experience with the full annual payroll cycle.
• Client-facing delivery of payroll advisory projects.
• Experience with multiple client stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support clients with payroll operational reviews.
• Lead advisory projects on payroll processes.
• Work with payroll vendors and third parties.

Skills

CIPP or similar qualified

Understanding of operational payroll

Knowledge of payroll processes

Experience leading payroll advisory projects

Strong technical drafting skills

Excellent attention to detail

Effective prioritization management

Analytical skills

Excellent verbal communication skills

Education

CIPP qualification

Tools

Workday

Dayforce

UKG

Job description

Overview

Payroll & Workforce Management at Deloitte is all about solving our clients’ challenges. Joining our team, you will work with a diverse range of clients from large UK employers to global organisations. You will work with client stakeholders from HR and payroll, focusing on how we make the complex simple, supporting your clients across the breadth of payroll and workforce management, including supporting key alliance relationships.

You will join a highly experienced, driven, diverse and welcoming team who are experiencing exceptional growth and are looking for a high calibre Associate Director. You will have real career progression opportunity, and the chance drive your own career with full support.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

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Payroll & Workforce Management

Payroll & Workforce Management is a growth area for Deloitte focussed on supporting clients with the design and delivery of market leading payroll functions. The team support clients across key areas such as payroll operational reviews (UK and global), development of payroll strategies (UK and global), vendor and/or system selection and implementation support.

Examples of recent projects our Payroll & Workforce Management team have supported include reviewing a pharmaceutical organisation’s payroll function, system selection for a European retailer, project management of a European outsourced Payroll for a global manufacturer and development of a global payroll strategy for a global manufacturer.

Our team are system and vendor agnostic which enables us to build relationships and work with the major payroll vendors providing UK and global services.

We encourage consideration of flexible ways of working, both formal and informal arrangements that allow for the best outcomes for our people and our clients. If this opportunity is of interest to you with some flexibility, please do discuss with us.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

• CIPP or similar qualified or equivalent experience, including experience of the full annual payroll cycle
• Understanding of operational payroll within a large organisation or payroll vendor
• Knowledge and understanding of payroll business processes
• Experience of leading the delivery of payroll advisory projects (or managing the payroll workstream within a HR transformation projects) (client-facing or internal)
• Experience of full life cycle payroll advisory projects including scoping, contracting, billing and cash collection
• Experience of working with multiple client stakeholders across industry sectors on a UK and global basis
• Strong technical drafting skills and verbal communication skills
• Effective prioritisation management and organisational skills, including the ability to lead and manage multiple client projects
• Strong team-player and experience of developing and coaching high performance teams across multiple geographies
• Working with 3rd parties, including payroll vendors
• Knowledge and implementation experience of 3rd party HR and payroll solutions including Workday, Dayforce and UKG
• Analytical skills used to derive insight from complex and varied information sources and preparation of project recommendations
• Excellent attention to detail
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including business report writing, preparation and delivery of presentations, workshop participation and leadership
• Experience in preparing and delivering client proposals, including pro-active engagement in seeking and securing new client projects
• Involvement in client seminars and the production of marketing materials

Connect to your business – Tax

Innovation and tax consultancy may not seem to go together, but that’s exactly what you’ll find at Deloitte. We’re constantly seeking the new and working together to push the limits of what’s possible. Discover a new kind of tax career that you can make your own.

Global Employer Services (GES)

Global Employer Services is a 1,000-strong award-winning, relationship-focussed business. We focus on the risk and regulatory agenda, delivering long-term value to our clients. Our clients range from high-net-worth individuals and highly ambitious start-ups to a large number of FTSE 100 and 250 companies, with significant global footprints.

Personal independence

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Connect with your colleagues

“We advise some of the largest, most prestigious clients in the world, so the work is really challenging and exciting. We also have a fantastic team of smart, driven people, and a supportive, entrepreneurial culture where everyone’s encouraged to be bold, creative, and ambitious” - Oliver, Tax

Our hybrid working policy

You’ll be based in London, Reading or Bristol with hybrid working.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers