HRIS Data Consultant - Payroll & HR

Job description

Job requirements

• Consultancy experience within HR technology, payroll, HRIS or business transformation.
• Demonstrable experience supporting HR and/or payroll system projects.
• Strong understanding of HR and payroll processes and associated operational challenges.
• Experience with HRIS, payroll or workforce management solutions such as Dayforce, HiBob, Workday, SuccessFactors, Cezanne, UKG or similar.
• Experience supporting data migration, data cleansing, reconciliation or transformation activities.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with excellent attention to detail.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple client engagements and priorities simultaneously.
• Commercially aware, proactive and solution-oriented approach.
• Comfortable working in a flexible consulting environment.
• Building trusted relationships with HR, Payroll and business stakeholders, becoming a credible adviser throughout their technology and transformation journey.
• Delivering high-quality HRIS and payroll projects across system selection, implementation, optimisation and digital transformation.
• Helping clients understand the quality and readiness of their workforce data, clearly identifying gaps, risks and actions required before migration.
• Producing accurate and well-maintained data mapping, cleansing, validation and reconciliation outputs that support successful system implementations.
• Working effectively with clients, software vendors and implementation partners to ensure data requirements are understood, tracked and delivered.
• Proactively identifying and resolving data-related issues before they affect project timelines, testing or go-live readiness.
• Managing multiple client priorities while maintaining strong governance, clear communication and complete project documentation.
• Supporting successful testing, adoption and transition into business as usual, ensuring clients are confident in both their systems and their data.
• Contributing to the development of Silver Cloud’s data migration tools, templates and delivery methodologies.
• Identifying opportunities to add further value to clients and contributing to proposals, thought leadership and the continued growth of the Client Transformation practice.
• Demonstrating Silver Cloud’s values by being collaborative, adaptable, proactive and focused on delivering outcomes that genuinely make a difference.

Job responsibilities

• Lead and support HR and payroll technology projects, including system selection, implementation, optimisation and transformation engagements.
• Facilitate discovery workshops, requirements gathering sessions and process review activities.
• Work with clients to identify opportunities for process improvement and technology enablement.
• Support solution evaluation, vendor selection and implementation planning activities.
• Manage project governance including plans, RAID logs, status reporting and stakeholder communications.
• Build trusted relationships with clients, software vendors and delivery partners.
• Support testing, training, adoption and transition-to-business-as-usual activities.
• Support data migration and transformation workstreams across HRIS and payroll projects.
• Conduct data quality and readiness assessments.
• Assist clients in cleansing, validating and preparing data for migration.
• Develop and maintain data mapping documentation between legacy and target systems.
• Support migration testing, validation and reconciliation activities.
• Work with implementation partners to ensure data requirements are understood and delivered successfully.
• Help identify and mitigate data-related risks and issues throughout the project lifecycle.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of Silver Cloud's consulting methodologies, tools and templates.
• Support the development of data migration and implementation accelerators.
• Contribute to client proposals, webinars, thought leadership and case studies.
• Identify opportunities to add value and support clients beyond the immediate project scope.

Job benefits

• Holiday: 25 days plus BHs
• Day off for your birthday
• Volunteering day
• Enhanced family, sick, and bereavements leave (and counselling)
• Pension through salary sacrifice with the Pension People
• WeCare – 24/7 helpline and Second Medical Opinion
• Flexibility from day one
• Comfort from home – reimbursed for office chair and eye care
• Profit share bonus scheme in place
• Refer a friend bonus
• Life insurance x3 annual salary
• Income protection (critical illness)
• Private healthcare
• Finally, but most importantly – a truly wonderful, support team