HR Data Analyst — SAP Payroll Implementation

Northern Europe; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 41,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave increase

Life assurance

Pension scheme

Benefits app

Food events

Job summary

Aramark is seeking an experienced HR Data Analyst for SAP Payroll implementation in Horsforth. You will ensure accuracy and integrity of payroll data, migrate data, and support testing to enable a successful go-live.

You will work closely with Payroll, HR and IT, applying strong data analytics to identify issues, produce dashboards, and drive governance across the transformation programme. This is a 12 month hybrid role with a recommended start end of October.

Qualifications

• Significant experience working with payroll data, payroll systems and payroll processes.
• Previous experience supporting a payroll implementation, migration or transformation project.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify, investigate and resolve complex data issues.
• Advanced Excel skills, including Pivot Tables, Power Query and complex formulas, with intermediate SQL capability.
• Experience conducting data validation, reconciliation and payroll testing activities (SIT, UAT and parallel runs).
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and organisational skills, with a strong attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Analyse, cleanse and validate payroll and employee data to ensure accuracy and integrity throughout the SAP Payroll implementation.
• Support data migration activities, including data extraction, transformation, loading (ETL), mapping and reconciliation between legacy and SAP systems.
• Develop and execute data validation processes, identifying and resolving data quality issues, discrepancies and anomalies.
• Support System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Parallel Payroll Testing, ensuring payroll calculations and outputs are accurate.
• Produce and maintain project dashboards, data quality reports and management information to support programme governance.
• Collaborate with Payroll, HR, Finance, IT and external implementation partners to deliver project milestones and resolve data-related issues.
• Ensure payroll data is managed in line with GDPR, payroll legislation, HMRC requirements and company governance standards.
• Provide analytical insights, recommendations and risk assessments to support decision-making and ensure successful project delivery.

Skills

Payroll data

Payroll systems

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Tools

Excel

Power Query

SQL

Job description

Aramark is seeking an experienced HR Data Analyst for SAP Payroll implementation in Horsforth. You will ensure accuracy and integrity of payroll data, migrate data, and support testing to enable a successful go-live.

You will work closely with Payroll, HR and IT, applying strong data analytics to identify issues, produce dashboards, and drive governance across the transformation programme. This is a 12 month hybrid role with a recommended start end of October.