HR Transformation - Payroll - Managing Consultant

Capgemini Invent; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Flexible benefits

Job summary

Capgemini Invent leads payroll transformation initiatives, delivering global payroll projects and engaging clients with strategic payroll insights. Our teams drive change through AI, RPA, and machine learning while building capability and sharing knowledge across the organisation.

Join us to help shape end-to-end payroll transformations, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and contribute to the delivery of innovative solutions for complex client challenges across multiple countries.

Qualifications

• Experience across the full payroll transformation lifecycle from proposition to hyper care.
• Delivery of global HR and multi-country payroll projects using cloud technologies and payroll providers.
• Strong client relationship skills and ability to communicate complex concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Experience in a major consulting or matrixed organisation with ability to mobilise stakeholders.
• Knowledge of UK and multi-country payroll regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Payroll Project Delivery: leading global payroll transformations on time and within budget.
• Client Engagement: building trusted client relationships and providing payroll expertise across business cases and transformation.
• Change Enablement & Innovation: driving process re-engineering and leveraging AI, RPA and ML.
• Capability Building: coaching and developing junior team members to support growth.
• Knowledge Sharing: delivering workshops and training, applying industry trends to offerings.

Skills

Payroll transformation

Global payroll projects

Client engagement

Change enablement

Team development

Tools

SAP SuccessFactors

Workday

Oracle

ADP

Job description

At Capgemini Invent, we believe difference drives change. As inventive transformation consultants, we blend our strategic, creative and scientific capabilities, collaborating closely with clients to deliver cutting-edge solutions. Join us to drive transformation tailored to our clients' challenges of today and tomorrow. Informed and validated by science and data. Superpowered by creativity and design. All underpinned by technology created with purpose.

YOUR ROLE

In This Role You Will Have The Opportunity To

• Payroll Project Delivery. Leading global payroll transformations, ensuring delivery on time, within scope and budget.
• Client Engagement & Advisory. Building trusted client relationships and providing strategic and payroll expertise across business cases, vendor selection and transformation.
• Change Enablement & Innovation. Driving process re-engineering and change, leveraging AI, RPA and Machine Learning.
• Capability Building & Team Development. Managing, coaching and developing junior team members to support individual and team growth.
• Knowledge Sharing & Continuous Improvement. Delivering workshops and training, while applying industry trends to enhance our offerings.

Role

As part of your role, you will also have the opportunity to contribute to the business and your own personal growth, through activities that form part of the following categories:

• Business Development - Leading/contributing to proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development, client pitches, and hosting clients at events.
• Internal contribution - Campaign development, internal think-tanks, whitepapers, practice development (operations, recruitment, team events & activities), and offering development.
• Learning & development - Training to support your career development and the skills demand within the company, certifications etc.

YOUR PROFILE

• Transformation Expertise. Experience across the full payroll transformation lifecycle, from proposition and discovery through solution design, data migration, integrations, testing, change, go-live and hyper care.
• Payroll Project Delivery. Experience delivering global HR and multi-country payroll projects using cloud technologies such as SAP SuccessFactors, Workday and Oracle and/or payroll providers such as ADP, within plan, scope and budget.
• Client & Stakeholder Engagement. Strong client relationship skills, with the ability to communicate complex concepts clearly to non-technical audiences.
• Consulting Capability & Influence. Experience in a major consulting or matrixed organisation, with the ability to mobilise stakeholders and drive solution delivery.
• Domain Knowledge & Compliance. Strong understanding of UK and multi-country payroll and regulatory requirements.

What You'll Love About Working Here

You will be part of the Employee Experience & HR team, which has a collaborative culture. You will work with a diverse group of talented professionals who are passionate about HR, technology, Employee Experience, AI, and dedicated to delivering exceptional solutions to diverse clients. A team that thrives on creativity and innovation, constantly pushing the boundaries of what's possible.

We are delighted to have received the Glassdoor Best Places to work UK' accolade for 5 consecutive years, to see what it is like to work at Capgemini Invent, visit our Glassdoor page.

NEED TO KNOW

At Capgemini we don't just believe in Diversity & Inclusion, we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Active Inclusion Campaign, we build environments where you can bring you whole self to work.

We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work-life balance. We embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.

Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing we have trained 'Mental Health Champions' across each of our business areas. We have also invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

We are a Disability Confident Employer

Capgemini is proud to be aDisability Confident Employer (Level 2)under the UK Government's Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:

• Declare they have a disability, and
• Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.

Please opt in during the application process.

CSR

We're also focused on using tech to have a positive social impact. So, we're working to reduce our own carbon footprint and improve everyone's access to a digital world. It's something we're really serious about. In fact, we were even named as one of the world's most ethical companies by the Ethisphere Institute for the 10th year. When you join Capgemini, you'll join a team that does the right thing.

Whilst you will have London, Bristol, Manchester, Glasgow or Newcastle as an office base location, you must be fully flexible in terms of assignment location, as these roles may involve periods of time away from home at short notice.

We offer a remuneration package which includes flexible benefits options for you to choose to suit your own personal circumstances and a variable element dependent grade and on company and personal performance.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organisations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 350,000 team members in more than 55 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.