Oracle Payroll Implementation Lead

Alexander Lloyd Limited; Greater London; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Alexander Lloyd Limited is seeking a Senior Oracle Payroll Implementation & Transition Lead. This home-based role involves occasional travel to London and demands leadership of payroll readiness, parallel runs, reconciliations, and an efficient operational transition for a high-profile project.

You will own the end-to-end implementation lifecycle, collaborate with IT and external providers, and manage stakeholder expectations while guiding a small team to delivery within timescales.

Qualifications

• Payroll background with experience in large-scale system implementations.
• Experience with Oracle is highly preferred for this role.
• Experience handling payrolls of 20k+ employees is required.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership across payroll readiness, parallel running, reconciliation, service acceptance and operational transition.
• Work closely with the IT support team.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and challenge where necessary.
• Act as Payroll Subject Matter Expert.
• Lead a small team and work with a larger team to deliver on time and accurately.
• Own the full implementation lifecycle with strong stakeholder and external provider engagement.

Skills

Payroll expertise

Oracle experience

Large-scale impl

Stakeholder mgmt

Job description

SENIOR ORACLE PAYROLL IMPLEMENTATION & TRANSITION LEAD

HOME BASED, WITH OCCASIONAL TRAVEL TO LONDON

This is a large scale, highly critical position, employed by a global service provider to be a key member in the team to design, integrate and deliver this high profile project.

Responsibilities

• You will provide leadership across payroll readiness, parallel running, reconciliation, service acceptance and operational transition.
• You will work closely with the I.T support team.
• You will manage stakeholder expectations and challenge where necessary.
• You will be the Payroll Subject Matter Expert.
• You will manage a small team and work as part of a larger team to ensure the project is delivered accurately and within projected timescales.
• You will be able to demonstrate ownership of a full implementation lifecycle including strong engagement with stakeholders and external providers.

Required Skills

• Your background will be Payroll focused with significant experience of large scale system implementations, preferably ORACLE in this case and exceeding payroll sizes of 20k employees.

Preferred Skills

• Experience of ORACLE is highly advantageous, however similar would be considered.

About the Company

Alexander Lloyd is the leading recruiter across a range of roles within the Finance and Accountancy space. From part to fully qualified accountants within Financial Reporting, Management Accounts, FP&A, commercial finance up to Director level throughout Surrey, Sussex, London & Kent.