Overview
This contract position for a Payroll Analyst focuses on payroll operational data analysis to support a client’s independent review of its payroll service. The consultant will work closely with the Lead Payroll Subject Matter Expert (SME) to identify and address issues within complex, high-volume payroll environments through hands-on analysis and root cause investigations. The role primarily involves data manipulation, trend analysis, and the documentation of findings to support future operational improvements.
Responsibilities
- Gather, structure, and interrogate payroll data and supporting evidence.
- Analyze trends, anomalies, and error types in payroll data.
- Trace issues through the end-to-end payroll lifecycle to identify failure points.
- Test hypotheses and root causes against payroll data and stakeholder feedback.
- Support payroll-cycle observation, reconciliations, and control testing.
- Document findings, data limitations, and unresolved questions for review.
- Assist in current-state process and control mapping, prioritizing improvements.
- Provide analytical support to the Lead Payroll SME for future-state design.
Requirements
- Significant hands-on experience analyzing payroll operations data in a complex environment.
- Demonstrable experience investigating errors and establishing evidence-based root causes.
- Strong data manipulation and reconciliation skills with advanced Excel proficiency.
- Practical understanding of payroll processes, reconciliations, and control management.
- Ability to investigate issues arising across data, process, system, and controls.
- Strong analytical judgement with a focus on producing clear, traceable evidence.
- Experience collaborating within structured delivery teams across various departments.
- Familiarity with Oracle Fusion Payroll or tools like Power Query, Power BI, or SQL is advantageous.