Hybrid Payroll Systems Implementation Specialist

Adaptable Recruitment; Chorley; Hybrid; GBP 36,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Hybrid working

Group Personal Pension Plan

Additional benefits

Job summary

Adaptable Recruitment is seeking a Payroll Software Implementation Specialist to join our Chorley-based team on a 6-month fixed-term contract. You will support the payroll transformation initiative across a complex UK payroll environment, working with the Payroll Project Lead and external vendors.

Hands-on experience with UK payroll software implementations (Zellis) and data migration is highly valued. The role requires strong analytical skills, documentation, testing cycles, and stakeholder

Qualifications

• Strong technical knowledge of UK payroll legislation and payroll best practice.
• Hands on experience with UK payroll systems, ideally with Zellis Technology.
• Proven experience and strong understanding of payroll interfaces with HRIS, Finance ERP, Time & Attendance, and pension and other benefit and third‑party providers.
• Proven experience in data migration, including cleansing, mapping, and validation.
• Significant experience of complex payroll models including multiple payroll frequencies, multiple legal entities, TUPE transfers, harmonisation programmes, and complex pay calculations.
• Confident working with large datasets and Excel.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical details into clear guidance.
• Significant experience supporting UK system implementations and/or payroll transformation projects.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate workshops and develop training materials and user guidance documentation to define requirements, business processes, and future‑state operating models, and manage stakeholder expectations and provide regular project updates.
• Process documentation: create clear "as‑is" and "to‑be" process maps, workflows, and procedural documentation.
• Data analysis & preparation: define, review, audit, and prepare payroll data and datasets for migration, ensuring accuracy and completeness.
• Testing & UAT: coordinate and execute payroll testing, cycles, parallel runs, defect resolution, and statutory calculation checks.
• Stakeholder engagement: working closely with HR, Finance, IT, Operations, and external vendors to ensure project alignment and smooth delivery throughout implementation.
• System configuration: support system configuration of complex and varied payroll rules, pay elements, GL mapping, and integrations with HRIS/ERP systems.
• Compliance & Controls: ensure payroll processes meet HMRC, GDPR and data protection legislative requirements, RTI and PAYE/NIC's requirements, pensions regulations, and internal governance standards.
• Change management: assist with training, communication, and handover to BAU payroll teams at go-live stage.

Skills

UK payroll

Data migration

Excel

Stakeholder engagement

System configuration

Test & UAT

Payroll modelling

Communication

Problem solving

Tools

Zellis Technology

Excel

Job description

Adaptable Recruitment is seeking a Payroll Software Implementation Specialist to join our Chorley-based team on a 6-month fixed-term contract. You will support the payroll transformation initiative across a complex UK payroll environment, working with the Payroll Project Lead and external vendors.

Hands-on experience with UK payroll software implementations (Zellis) and data migration is highly valued. The role requires strong analytical skills, documentation, testing cycles, and stakeholder