Senior Payroll Implementation Lead

apply; France; Sur place; EUR 90 000 - 125 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

ADP Global Payroll is seeking a Sr. Lead Consultant to drive client projects, align with Client Product Owner, and guide functional design from blueprint to testing. The role emphasizes coaching, multi-project coordination, and strong payroll domain expertise across country payrolls.

The position requires solid blueprinting knowledge, SAP Payroll experience, and excellent client-facing communication. Travel may be required as part of engagement delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or its equivalent in education and experience.
• Must have solid functional / blueprinting knowledge.
• Fluent English.

Responsabilités

• Act as primary functional point of contact between business stakeholders and the delivery team (Configuration, data conversion and testing teams).
• Lead the requirements during the BBP workshops.
• Translate business needs into clear, structured functional requirements.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and provide functional guidance and recommendations.
• Own the end-to-end functional solution design.
• Validate solution feasibility with technical and integration leads.
• Ensure solutions meet business objectives.
• Review and approve functional specifications and design documents.
• Conduct functional reviews of configurations, custom developments, and integrations.
• Proactively identify functional risks and dependencies, proposing mitigation actions.
• Support project planning inputs (effort estimates, milestones, dependencies).
• Define functional test strategy, review and approve functional test cases and test data.
• Collaborate closely with technical, integration, data and testing teams and coordinate activities and tasks across these teams in conjunction with Project manager.
• Support cutover planning and readiness activities.
• Participate in go‑live decision making from a functional standpoint.
• Provide functional leadership during go‑live and hypercare phases.
• Ensure all functional documentation is complete, accurate, and up to date
• Lead knowledge transfer sessions for business users and support teams
• Identify opportunities for process optimization and continuous improvement
• Mentor and coach junior functional consultants
• Demonstrate strong ownership, accountability, and decision‑making
• Lead Implementation Team forums, contribute and participate in knowledge sharing and team development sessions.
• Liaise with the ADP Project Manager/Team Manager assigned to the project and Line Manager, providing regular status updates and early warning of any slippage/ problems that may occur.
• Support pre-sales process, including analysis of client needs, and attend any workshops where specialist knowledge of payroll is required.
• Provide functional feedback on the template and help with definition of future product direction/ changes in cooperation with technical team.

Connaissances

Fluent English

Client-facing skills

Analytical thinking

Team leadership

Documentation skills

Formation

Bachelor's Degree or its equivalent

Outils

SAP Payroll

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Visio

Word

Description du poste

ADP Global Payroll is seeking a Sr. Lead Consultant to drive client projects, align with Client Product Owner, and guide functional design from blueprint to testing. The role emphasizes coaching, multi-project coordination, and strong payroll domain expertise across country payrolls.

The position requires solid blueprinting knowledge, SAP Payroll experience, and excellent client-facing communication. Travel may be required as part of engagement delivery.