Project Manager (Manager), Payroll & Workforce Management

Deloitte
Birmingham
Job description

Connect to your Industry

Payroll & Workforce Management at Deloitte is all about solving our clients' challenges. Joining our team, you will work with a diverse range of clients from large UK employers to global organisations. You will work with client stakeholders from HR and payroll, focusing on how we make the complex simple, supporting your clients across the breadth of payroll and workforce management, including supporting key alliance relationships.

The team support clients across key areas such as end-to-end technology implementation services across HCM, payroll and workforce management through market leading platforms, as well as payroll operational reviews (UK and global), development of payroll strategies (UK and global), vendor and/or system selection and payroll implementation support. Examples of recent projects our Payroll & Workforce Management team have supported include project management of a complex payroll review and development of a technology solution to implement payroll remediation required across a significant population; the implementation of full-suite Dayforce modules for multiple clients; and the implementation of global payroll services across Deloitte and 3rd party vendors.

You will join a highly experienced, driven, diverse and welcoming team who are experiencing exceptional growth and are looking for a high caliber Manager to Project Manage large scale and complex global projects and technology implementations. You will have real career progression opportunity, and the chance drive your own career with full support.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, 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

As a member of our Payroll & Workforce Management team, you will drive and lead teams in the delivery of programmes and projects.

Responsibilities include:
  • Work with colleagues and stakeholders to define project scope, objectives, deliverables, timelines and resource allocation for complex, multi-jurisdictional implementations
  • Lead and manage day-to-day project activities for successful delivery.
  • Proactively create, own and maintain project planning, proactively managing and communicating upcoming actions and deadlines to relevant project teams in a timely and effective manner.
  • Design and management of communication plans, including the preparation of stakeholder reporting and leading key stakeholder communication forums, as well as team level stand ups, workshops, status meetings and other forums.
  • Ensures appropriate project governance in place such as tracking notes, accurately documenting discussions, decisions, and actions, and circulating minutes as appropriate.
  • Engage effectively with client teams (finance, IT, legal, operations), external advisors and third-party service providers
  • Manage project budgets, tracking expenses and ensuring cost-effectiveness providing comprehensive analysis to leadership for review and strategic direction.
  • Performing key project management tasks including but not limited to, recording of actions, risks, issues and progress updates, keeping teams and organisations through changes in processes, systems and compliance requirements
  • Keep informed of payroll and workforce management technology trends and leading practices around program/project management, contributing to the continuous process improvement
  • Work closely with colleagues in other parts of the firm, and other Deloitte offices, to develop and pursue opportunities
  • Work as part of a diverse team within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution
Connect to your skills and professional experience

Essential:
  • Experience project managing large-scale, global transformation programmes and implementations
  • An understanding of payroll, workforce management and/or HR technologies
  • Understanding of the flow of payroll, payroll systems and payroll terminology
  • Experience working with a blend of onshore/offshore teams
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex technical problems into actions to be taken
  • Ability to build and maintain strong client relationships, understanding their needs and delivering tailored solutions
  • High level knowledge and understanding of payroll business processes
  • Experience of full life cycle advisory projects including scoping, contracting, billing and cash collection
  • Experience of working with multiple client stakeholders across industry sectors on a UK and global basis
  • Effective prioritisation management and organisational skills, including the ability to lead and manage multiple workstreams and multiple client projects
  • Strong team-player and experience of developing and coaching high performance teams across multiple geographies
  • Working with 3rd parties, including payroll vendors
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills including business report writing, preparation and delivery of presentations, workshop participation and leadership
  • Experience in preparing and delivering client proposals, including proactive engagement in seeking and securing new client projects
Desirable:
  • Prince2 qualification
  • Experience with Dayforce/UKG
  • Involvement in business development activity and the production of marketing materials
Connect to your business - 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.

Global Employer Services (GES)

Global Employer Services is a 1,000-strong award-winning, relationship-focussed business. We focus on the risk and regulatory agenda, delivering long-term value to our clients. Our clients range from high-net-worth individuals and highly ambitious start-ups to a large number of FTSE 100 and 250 companies, with significant global footprints.

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 (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). 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, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further details as you progress through the recruitment process, or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

Connect with your colleagues

"We advise some of the largest, most prestigious clients in the world, so the work is really challenging and exciting. We also have a fantastic team of smart, driven people, and a supportive, entrepreneurial culture where everyone's encouraged to be bold, creative, and ambitious" - Oliver, Tax

Our hybrid working policy

You'll be based in London, Reading or Birmingham with hybrid working.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That's why we'll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you'll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You'll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter about the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

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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Posted 2026-05-11

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