Global Payroll Delivery Lead (Hybrid)

Altum Consulting; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Altum Consulting is seeking an experienced Payroll Project Manager to join our fast-growing technology client in London. You will lead multiple payroll projects end-to-end, coordinating cross-functional teams and external partners to ensure successful go-lives across jurisdictions.

The role emphasizes project delivery over BAU payroll work, with a hybrid London pattern and immediate start. You will own plans, governance and risk management to keep workstreams on track.

Qualifications

• Strong project management with payroll delivery experience.
• Experience delivering payroll implementations across multiple countries.
• Proven experience guiding payroll projects through testing and go-live.
• Solid understanding of payroll processes, systems and data.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate multiple payroll projects from planning through delivery.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, timelines and milestones.
• Drive actions to keep deliverables on track and manage dependencies.
• Coordinate stakeholders across Payroll, Finance, Technology and partners.
• Own governance and risk/issue/action tracking.
• Support data validation, testing, reconciliation and go-live readiness.
• Manage data flows and integrations across payroll and finance systems.
• Provide updates and reporting to senior stakeholders.
• Maintain delivery focus across concurrent workstreams.

Skills

Project management

Payroll experience

Cross-country payroll

Stakeholder management

Planning & scheduling

Data reconciliation

Vendor/partner management

Workday/CloudPay/NetSuite familiarity

Finance background beneficial

Job description

Altum Consulting is seeking an experienced Payroll Project Manager to join our fast-growing technology client in London. You will lead multiple payroll projects end-to-end, coordinating cross-functional teams and external partners to ensure successful go-lives across jurisdictions.

The role emphasizes project delivery over BAU payroll work, with a hybrid London pattern and immediate start. You will own plans, governance and risk management to keep workstreams on track.