Senior Solutions Consultant - Payroll and Time
2 Days Old
Our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. For over 100 years, bp has focused on discovering, developing, and producing oil and gas in the nations where we operate. We are one of the few companies globally that can provide governments and customers with an integrated energy offering. Delivering our strategy sustainably is fundamental to achieving our ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner!
At bp, our people are our most valuable asset. The People, Culture & Communications (PC&C) function fosters a diverse, inclusive culture where everybody can thrive. As we transition from an oil company to an integrated energy company, PC&C is embarking on a major transformation to be more competitive, responsive, and customer focused.
We're looking for driven, high-reaching enthusiasts who thrive in fast-paced environments and are passionate about people. If you're ready to build something transformative, this is the place for you.
Role Synopsis
The purpose of this role is to own and drive product, encompassing both process and technology, ensuring that we deliver a phenomenal and efficient service for our people.
The Successful candidate will build strong partnerships across PC&C - with the centre(s) of expertise, integrators, services teams and within the solutions teams. They will apply their technical expertise to deliver stable operations alongside projects and innovation.
Support the Global payroll and time strategy for the region supporting new country rollouts, M&A, new entity setup. For deployed solutions you will monitor the integrity, support systemic changes and retrofits impacting the team globally.
Own and run the technical architecture including the interfaces between the HR systems of records, the wider team solutions, other 3rd party solutions impacting payroll and time (like benefits, statutory interfaces).
What you will do:
- Deploy the payroll and time solutions for the new country/entity thereby providing necessary governance, risk management and delivery assurance to relevant partners
- Lead project implementations from Blueprinting through to Go live/Hypercare. Serve as the interface point between the global vendors and the business on requirements.
- Analyse, prioritize, and deploy product changes in tandem with business priorities.
- Lead the operational integrity (functionality, performance, security, availability) of deployed solutions globally
- Responsible for compliance with statutory bodies and works with relevant internal teams (tax; policy; pensions et al.), independent auditors to drive and sustain bp's compliance to the law of the land
- Maintaining the health and operational integrity of your solutions / products, working with others to deliver stable operations
- Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and business needs, for example data privacy and digital security requirements
- Ensures compliance to relevant cyber security regulations, standards, and contractual requirements.
- Accountable for gathering requirements from country SME's, advising, and developing solutions.
- Capture and document functional requirements. Define Testing strategy and scripts. Perform appropriate level of testing as required and review test results.
- Support the requirements from finance and collaborate with vendors to support the payroll accounting, provisions, etc.
- Prioritize backlog, covering maintenance, fixes (non-urgent) and improvements, with a horizon typically up to one year ahead
- Planning, organising and leading the design, configuration, testing, and deployment of changes for your part of the solution
- Planning and driving substantial aspects of change projects, including acting as product owner, delivering through others, delivering to time, cost and quality, handling risks - organize and implement projects, under limited supervision, by facilitating design sessions, leading configuration, coordinating testing, and completing cutover
- Building strong partnerships with numerous bp partners - with the relevant collaborators and with teams outside P&C such as colleagues in Technology
- Building external relations including vendor management and partnership
- Truly understanding the business requirements and acting as a trusted advisor to develop solutions to complex problems, driving the required outcomes - actively elicit, analyse and document business and functional requirements through requirements workshops, interviews or meeting sessions with Project Sponsors, SMEs and other Stakeholders to diagnose and resolve complex technical, process, and business issues related to your part of the PC&C solution
- Evaluate, communicate, and coordinate the functional and technical impacts of configuration and other decisions to partner groups
- Research and resolve process and technical problems, unexpected results or process flaws and recommend solutions or alternate methods to meet requirements
- Supporting bp to be a thought-leader in the relevant technology space through ongoing external networking and tech landscape analysis
What you will need:
- Significant experience in building digital strategies and roadmaps
- Substantial experience in systems development and implementation
- Solid experience in corporate-wide implementation of global systems and processes
- Advanced project management methodologies experience with ability to create/handle comprehensive project plans
- Possesses/applies advanced HR systems experience/judgment
- Expert knowledge of technology trends
- Advanced leadership qualities
- Experience working in both consulting/corporate environments would be a differentiator
- Experience working in different industries especially in both Energy/Financial Services is beneficial.
- HR certifications like GPHR, SPHR, CIPD level 7 are advantageous
- Quality certifications like Six Sigma are desired but not mandatory
Skills:
Technical Capability
- Strong functional knowledge in core solution, SAP Payroll (specifically in ADP products), Workday, Time applications, including business process framework, security, and reporting
- SAP Payroll Implementation experience
- Payroll service delivery experience is an added advantage.
- Breadth and depth across the HR functional areas and able to provide professional advice and act as a coach to others in most of the areas
- Ability to effectively partner with the Services and Solution teams and successfully influence leaders
- Digital fluency - not only comfortable and competent using technology to enable and enhance ways of working and thinking, also comfortable in the wider digital environment and the interface with business transformation including people, processes and data driven actions.
Business Capability
- Demonstrable record of getting results from your field of expertise to develop processes and products
- Good eye for business and able to show where solutions can make valuable contributions to / enable the business at the leadership level
- Customer focus - Puts the customer and business strategy at the heart of decision making. Ability to guide leaders through choices to best suit business requirements
- Drives value-adding solutions - driven to create solutions to business problems. Track record of improving/making valuable contributions
- Externally orientated - actively working on developing external connections, aware of best practice and actively learns from others
Leadership & EQ Capability
- Acts as a coach develop your expertise for all Services and Solutions colleagues
- Continually enhancing capability in line with HR Capability Framework with an equal balance of EQ, IQ and Drive
- Group mind-set - demonstrates an understanding of the value of, and ability to develop, high quality, trust-based relationships with HR colleagues & with the wider organisation - leaders & employees
- Is self-aware and actively seeks input from others on impact and effectiveness
- Effective team player able to work successfully across organisational boundaries
- Applies judgement and common sense - demonstrates good understanding of client's business and is able to apply sound judgement / wise counsel
- Acts with integrity; role model of BP V&Bs to others in the function and business
- Cultural fluency - able to operate successfully across cultural boundaries with sensitivity
Technical:
- Skilled at using data and analytics to identify outcomes and improve decision-making
- Validated experience in multiple organizational change management roles
- Expertise in development/delivery of SAAS/Cloud-based products including integrations
- Demonstrable track record of project/programme leadership skills including partner management/change expertise
Behavioural:
- Ability to structure and convey complex messages and insights
- Leadership with vision and ambition
- Collaborative working style
- Be responsible for your success
- Think big
- Be curious
- Effortless customer experiences
- Digital first
Additional Information
At bp, we provide the following environment and benefits to you:
• A company culture where we respect our diverse and unified teams, where we are proud of our achievements and where fun and the attitude of giving back to our environment are highly valued
• Possibility to join our social communities and networks
• Learning opportunities and other development opportunities to craft your career path
• Life and health insurance, medical care package
• And many other benefits.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform crucial job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Don't hesitate to get in touch with us to request any accommodations.
Travel Requirement
Up to 10% travel should be expected with this role
Relocation Assistance:
This role is not eligible for relocation
Remote Type:
This position is a hybrid of office/remote working
Skills:
Analytical Thinking, Change Management, Communication, Configuration management and release, Conflict Management, Decision Making, Digital fluency, Digital innovation, Driving Changes, Leading transformation, Managing strategic partnerships, Organizational knowledge, Payroll System Implementation, Payroll Systems, Product Ownership, Project and programme management, Project Systems, SAP Infrastructure, SAP Products, SAP Upgrades, Stakeholder Partnerships, Testing and quality assurance, Workday Projects, Workday Software
Legal Disclaimer:
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp's recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us.
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- Location:
- Greater London, England, United Kingdom
- Salary:
- £125,000 - £150,000
- Category:
- Consulting
