Workforce Compliance & Employment Tax Integration Lead

Sky; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free Sky TV or NOW package

Pension up to 9%

Private healthcare

Aviva Digital GP and dental

Sky product discounts

Sharesave and Tech schemes

Sky VIP rewards

Job summary

Sky is seeking a senior HR governance professional to lead employment tax, payroll and workforce compliance across mergers, acquisitions and transformations. You will manage data integrity across Workday, payroll, procurement and contracts, and partner with Legal, Finance and external advisers to mitigate risks.

You will design scalable governance controls, conduct evidence-based reviews and deliver clear recommendations to senior leaders.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in workforce compliance, employment tax, payroll compliance, internal audit, risk and controls, workforce advisory or a closely related field.
• Experience gained in a large in-house function, professional services firm or specialist consultancy.
• Strong understanding of contingent workforce and worker engagement models, with sufficient employment tax and payroll knowledge to identify risks and work effectively with technical specialists.
• Proven experience leading complex, data-driven compliance, governance or transformation reviews.
• Strong data analysis and reconciliation capability, with confidence working across fragmented HR, finance, payroll, procurement and contract data.
• Ability to design and execute risk-based sampling, evidence gathering, controls testing and remediation activity.
• Excellent project management, stakeholder engagement and influencing skills.
• Ability to operate independently, structure ambiguous problems and deliver at pace with a high degree of technical credibility and practical judgement.
• Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to explain complex issues simply and make actions and decisions explicit.

Responsibilities

• Lead M&A integration and due diligence activities and drive governance alignment.
• Lead employment tax, payroll and workforce compliance workstreams supporting acquisitions, integrations and separations.
• Assess risks identified through due diligence and translate findings into integration, remediation and assurance plans.
• Develop practical and scalable approaches for bringing acquired businesses into Sky governance frameworks, controls and operating processes.
• Partner with Legal, Finance, People, Payroll, Procurement and external advisers to manage dependencies, decisions and risk mitigation.
• Provide clear, evidence-based recommendations to programme leaders and senior governance forums.
• Establish complete and accurate populations across employee and non-employee worker categories, including self-employed workers and contractors.
• Lead data gathering and reconciliation across Workday, Accounts Payable, payroll, procurement and contract records.
• Build a reliable view of worker identity, engagement route, payment history and hiring manager ownership.
• Undertake payment profiling, ranking and risk segmentation to support sampling and review.
• Validate data completeness and accuracy, maintain audit trail of sources and assumptions.
• Escalate previously unidentified populations or gross payments outside expected processes.
• Lead reviews of engagement and onboarding arrangements for off-payroll workers and conduct proportional sampling.
• Coordinate collection and review of contracts to confirm alignment with engagement basis and pay.
• Work with specialists to assess compliance with employment status, off-payroll working and HMRC requirements.
• Bring understanding of TV/production or media workforce models or quickly develop this sector knowledge.

Skills

Workforce compliance

Employment tax

Payroll compliance

Internal audit

Risk and controls

Data analysis

Stakeholder engagement

Project management

Tools

Workday

HRIS

Job description

Sky is seeking a senior HR governance professional to lead employment tax, payroll and workforce compliance across mergers, acquisitions and transformations. You will manage data integrity across Workday, payroll, procurement and contracts, and partner with Legal, Finance and external advisers to mitigate risks.

You will design scalable governance controls, conduct evidence-based reviews and deliver clear recommendations to senior leaders.