Consultant, Payroll Implementation, Tax & Legal Birmingham, England
Job description
Connect to your Industry
Payroll Consulting is a growth area for Deloitte within our Payroll and Workforce Management department. We help our clients with the end-to-end process of the implementation of their payroll. Over the past year, our Payroll Consulting team have been involved in a wide variety of projects working in the following business sectors including; Retail, Hospitality, Travel and Manufacturing. The Deloitte Payroll Consulting team are system and vendor agnostic which enables us to build relationships and work with all the major payroll vendors providing UK and global services.
Connect to your career at Deloitte
Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, that covers audit, risk advisory, and consulting services across tax, legal, business, technology and corporate finance, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.
What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.
Connect to your opportunity
Our consultants take the lead on supporting and delivering the end-to-end implementation process. As a consultant, you will use your training and professional expertise, to deliver the best possible experience and outcomes for our clients.
You will have an opportunity to work with and support a growing and dynamic team within the firm and will be expected to proactively identify innovative solutions for your clients and help them improve their payroll function.
You will be a team player and who enjoys learning new skills, while sharing your current knowledge and expertise with others, as well as continuing to build your own technical expertise or specialism.
Responsibilities include:
- Takes an active role in pre-sales and bid development
- Develops strong relationships with our clients
- Regularly attends Payroll User Groups and Events
- Ensures that all standards and processes are adhered to for any deliverables produced
- Facilitate client workshops throughout the implementation lifecycle
- To assist clients through the various phases of implementation, including, not limited to; User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Parallel testing through to Go Live
- Help clients understand their payroll function and identify potential improvement solutions
Connect to your skills and professional experience
You’re a natural communicator. Someone who has excellent written and verbal communication skills and can present technical concepts through presentations, meeting minutes, workshop participation and business and report writing, sharing your analytical insights in a clear and concise manner.
You’ll love project-work and have effective prioritisation management and organisation skills, with excellent attention to detail. Someone who is a strong-team player, brings out the best in others and is a brilliant listener. You’ll grow our business without compromising standards, integrity or culture.
- CIPP or similar qualified or equivalent experience
- Experience of being part of or managing a payroll work stream within a large project (client-facing or internal)
- Understanding of operational payroll within a large organisation or payroll vendor
- Experience of the full annual payroll cycle
- Experience of being part of a team to successfully delivered payroll work stream project deliverables including scoping, planning, reviewing and achieving sign-off
- Knowledge and understanding of payroll business processes
- Working with 3rd parties, including payroll vendors
- Analytical skills used to derive insight from complex and varied information sources and the ability to input into the creation of sound recommendations
- Involvement in client seminars and the production of marketing materials
Connect to your service line - Tax
Innovation and tax consultancy may not seem to go together, but that’s exactly what you’ll find at Deloitte. We’re constantly seeking the new and working together to push the limits of what’s possible. Discover a new kind of tax career that you can make your own.
Personal independence
Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints. This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm. The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process.
Connect with your colleagues
“You’ll get great experience across a wide range of clients and industries and have access to experts in every field and colleagues across the world who will support you when needed.”
- Erica, Tax Consulting
"I really appreciate the learning opportunities at Deloitte, from formal training to knowledge gathering from colleagues. "
- Montine, Tax Consulting
“It’s such an inspiring place to work; everyone you talk to is working on something interesting. There are always so many exciting things to get involved with that it is a challenge to prioritise where to spend your time. Everyone always says, “it’s the people,” and that’s true.”
Connect to your agile working options
Location: The home office of this role is Manchester or Birmingham preferably; however we will consider other locations such as Bristol, Cambridge, Leeds, Newcastle or Reading.
Your Work, Your Way: We call our hybrid working vision Deloitte Works. And it does. We trust you to make the right choices around where, when and how you work. You’ll be able to make decisions about how you work best, to be collaborative, learn from colleagues, share your experiences, build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Having great conversations with your team and your leadership paves the way for great collaborative ways of working.
Connect to your return to work opportunity
Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break?
For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills, and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of two years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application.
Our commitment to you
Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.
We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.
Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.
Connect to your next step
A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.
Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers
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