Main duties and responsibilities

• Responsible for supporting the successful delivery of transition and integration activities associated with this project.
• Implementing a detailed framework to facilitate a service transition between entities.
• Ensuring the service transition is planned, communicated, and executed to schedule.
• Being a single point of contact for activities, incorporating any actions into the overall project plan and following through to ensure completion of those actions.
• Liaising with all functions within the affiliates to build a detailed integration plan with clear accountabilities, phases, and timelines to ensure a successful handover.
• Supporting the various integration work streams to ensure they are delivering against the key project milestones.
• Taking responsibility for the payroll workstream (including UK and modified expatriate payrolls) ensuring that processes are documented, handover is professionally managed, and support given to the Payroll Teams to achieve a successful handover.
• Supporting smooth handover of UK benefits and expatriation activity.
• Working with relevant workstreams to ensure that all relevant files and documents are appropriately transferred and accessible to the receiving entity in accordance with any regulations such as GDPR.
• Liaising closely with IT to ensure systems readiness.
• Liaising with Contracts and Procurement and Finance to ensure that handover activities in those areas are captured in overall plan.
• Providing daily reports to line manager and weekly/ad hoc reports to other stakeholders.
• Responsible for highlighting any potential issues and risks to line manager.
• Ensuring documentation of transition of knowledge, competencies and operating rhythm are taking place ensuring a thorough and auditable management of change process for the project.

Applicants to this role require

• A background in Human Resources and Change Management.
• Reward/Payroll background desirable (specific experience of payroll transition would be an advantage).
• Excellent interpersonal communication and organisational skills.
• Knowledge of service transition and associated methodology, tools, and templates.

Additional information

• In line with government guidelines, this assignment will initially be fulfilled remotely (working from home), with an office return likely once restrictions ease.