Payroll Business Analyst

Job Title: Business Analyst - Payroll
Location: Hybrid 3 days per week (Birmingham City Centre)
Contract: 2-year Fixed Term Salaried Contract
Salary: Competitive

About the Role:
We are currently recruiting on behalf of a well-known UK company for an exciting Business Analyst - Payroll position. This is a unique opportunity for an experienced professional to join a leading organisation and contribute to a major HR transformation programme. You will be responsible for gathering, analysing, and documenting payroll business and technical requirements while working closely with product owners, consultants, and other stakeholders. This is a fantastic opportunity for a Business Analyst with strong payroll expertise to play a key role in a high-profile transformation project.

Key Responsibilities:

• Analyse existing payroll processes to understand the end-to-end workflows and their interdependencies with other workstreams.
• Lead payroll requirement-gathering workshops and ensure requirements are fully documented.
• Take ownership of payroll-related business change and technical design within the HCM programme.
• Collaborate with workstream leads to align payroll with data integration, migration, testing, and reporting outputs.
• Participate in vendor workshops to agree on product design decisions.
• Support the planning, coordination, and reporting of the payroll workstream.
• Perform testing, including user acceptance testing, to ensure requirements are met before implementation.
• Assist with the implementation, including training, communication, and post-implementation support.

What We’re Looking For:

• Proven experience managing business change projects.
• Must have experience capturing Payroll processes.
• 5+ years of experience implementing software and process change projects with external vendors.
• Strong understanding of payroll systems and processes, particularly within the hospitality or retail sectors.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to simplify complex challenges.
• Experience working within Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid methodologies.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience in process management techniques (e.g., Six Sigma/Lean).
• BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis or similar.

What’s on Offer:

• Competitive salary and benefits, including discounts across the company’s brands.
• Generous pension scheme.
• Private healthcare, dental plan, and fitness schemes.
• Generous annual leave, plus bank holidays.
• Flexible working hours and a hybrid work environment.

This is an excellent opportunity to be part of a high-impact transformation programme at a well-known UK company. If you have the expertise and drive to succeed in this role, apply today!