Payroll Specialist

SearchWorks; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

SearchWorks is seeking a Payroll Integrations Specialist to lead data integration and ETL across payroll platforms. You will work directly with clients and implementation teams to extract, map, and validate payroll data from systems like SAP, Oracle, Workday and SuccessFactors.

The role is hybrid with two in-office days per week and involves ensuring accuracy for large-scale payroll environments. Ideal candidates will have hands-on experience in payroll data integration, data transformation, and

Qualifications

• Experience in payroll data integration and ETL.
• Strong understanding of payroll data and its impact on payroll processing.
• Experience with data mapping, transformation and validation.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving mindset.
• Experience identifying and resolving data gaps/integration issues.
• Strong client-facing and stakeholder management experience.
• Experience supporting large or complex payroll environments.
• Experience with SAP, Oracle, Workday or SuccessFactors is beneficial but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Work on payroll data integration and ETL processes.
• Extract, transform and map data between payroll/HR systems.
• Work with clients to understand data requirements and identify gaps.
• Troubleshoot integration and data issues.
• Support data validation, testing and reconciliation.
• Work with implementation teams to resolve client requirements.
• Ensure data is accurate and suitable for payroll processing.
• Work with data from systems such as SAP, Oracle, Workday and SuccessFactors.

Skills

Payroll data integration

ETL processes

Data mapping and transformation

Troubleshooting

Data gaps/integration issues

Client-facing & stakeholder mgmt

Large/complex payroll environments

Tools

SAP

Oracle

Workday

SuccessFactors

Job description

Locations: Newcastle, Manchester, Belfast, Glasgow, Leeds

Hybrid: 2 days in office per week

Payroll Data | ETL | Data Integration | Payroll Technology | Transformation

Our client is a globally recognized professional services organization with a market-leading Payroll Operate team. The team has 72 people across the UK supporting payroll for clients across 159 countries, including UK payrolls of up to 20,000 employees.

They are looking for Payroll Integrations Specialists to focus on payroll data integration and ETL, working directly with clients and implementation teams.

What You'll Be Doing

• Work on payroll data integration and ETL processes
• Extract, transform and map data between payroll/HR systems
• Work with clients to understand data requirements and identify gaps
• Troubleshoot integration and data issues
• Support data validation, testing and reconciliation
• Work with implementation teams to resolve client requirements
• Ensure data is accurate and suitable for payroll processing
• Work with data from systems such as SAP, Oracle, Workday and SuccessFactors

What We're Looking For

• Experience in payroll data integration and ETL
• Strong understanding of payroll data and its impact on payroll processing
• Experience with data mapping, transformation and validation
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving mindset
• Experience identifying and resolving data gaps/integration issues
• Strong client-facing and stakeholder management experience
• Experience supporting large or complex payroll environments

Experience with SAP, Oracle, Workday or SuccessFactors is beneficial but not essential. What matters is experience working with data from different systems and integrating it into a payroll environment.

Payroll data experience is crucial. Candidates with mainly traditional payroll processing or general payroll implementation experience, without strong integration/ETL exposure, are unlikely to be suitable.

Why This Role?

• Work with clients across 159 countries
• AI & automation-focused organization with 40 hours of training per year to support continuous development.
• Exposure to large and complex payrolls
• 100% client-facing role
• Work across payroll, data, technology and transformation
• Hybrid working – 2 days in office
• Develop your career at Assistant Manager level

If you have experience across payroll integration working on data, ETL, integration and troubleshooting, this is a rare opportunity to join a market-leading Payroll Operate team, work on large-scale international payroll projects and build your career across payroll, technology, data and transformation. We’d be keen to hear from you.