Payroll Implementation Lead

SAGE GROUP PLC; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Sage Group plc in the UK is seeking a confident Payroll Consultant to lead payroll implementations and optimise processes across large organisations. You’ll guide customers, partners and internal teams through the implementation journey, ensuring high-quality delivery and compliance with UK payroll legislation.

You’ll manage projects from planning to go-live, configure solutions, test data, and resolve complex payroll issues, while building strong stakeholder relationships.

Qualifications

• Proven experience implementing payroll solutions within large or complex organisations.
• Strong understanding of UK payroll legislation, compliance requirements and payroll operations.
• Experience managing payroll or HR systems projects from requirements gathering through implementation.
• Strong project planning, organisation and stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent analytical skills with experience interpreting payroll and operational data.
• Experience working with payroll systems, integrations and data flows.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support Sage People Payroll implementations, ensuring successful, high-quality delivery.
• Act as a payroll subject matter expert, providing guidance to customers, implementation partners and internal teams.
• Manage payroll projects from planning through to deployment, taking ownership of timelines, risks, dependencies and deliverables.
• Support pre-sales activities by providing expert input on payroll-related customer requirements.
• Configure payroll solutions, perform testing, validate data and support go-live activities.
• Investigate and resolve complex payroll, system and data-related issues.
• Analyse payroll data to identify risks, trends and opportunities for optimisation.
• Ensure payroll processes remain fully compliant with UK payroll legislation and regulatory requirements.
• Drive improvements in payroll efficiency, controls, automation and employee experience.
• Create implementation guides, process documentation and training materials, including video content.
• Build strong relationships with customers, partners and key internal stakeholders.
• Provide commercially focused recommendations that deliver measurable business value.

Skills

Payroll implementations

UK payroll legislation

Project management

Stakeholder management

Data analysis

Communication

Excel

Education

CIPP qualification or equivalent payroll accreditation

Tools

Sage People Payroll

Sage 50 Payroll

Job description

Sage Group plc in the UK is seeking a confident Payroll Consultant to lead payroll implementations and optimise processes across large organisations. You’ll guide customers, partners and internal teams through the implementation journey, ensuring high-quality delivery and compliance with UK payroll legislation.

You’ll manage projects from planning to go-live, configure solutions, test data, and resolve complex payroll issues, while building strong stakeholder relationships.