Vallum Associates
Reading, Oxfordshire
The Role: Solution Architect - Global Payroll and EUPT Location: Reading, UK Position Type: Contract Inside IR35 Remote work option Available: 3- Days Work from Office Job Description: Essential Experience Proven experience (5yrs +) designing and delivering enterprise-scale technology solutions across platforms, products, or domains. Excellent collaboration skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical peers and stakeholders alike. Payroll Domain Expertise Proven experience designing and delivering global payroll solutions across multiple countries, payroll providers and legislative jurisdictions. Deep understanding of end-to-end payroll processes including gross-to-net calculations, taxation, statutory deductions, pensions, benefits, payroll controls and reconciliation. Experience defining global payroll templates, common payroll operating models and management of country-specific deviations. Experience with payroll transformation programmes involving payroll vendor consolidation, platform replacement or country migrations. Experience designing payroll finance integrations including payroll journals, costing, accruals, reconciliation and General Ledger posting. EU Pay Transparency & Reward Expertise Strong understanding of EU Pay Transparency Directive requirements, including pay gap reporting, employee right-to-information requests and regulatory disclosure obligations. Experience designing solutions supporting pay equity analysis, compensation reporting and transparency reporting across multiple European markets. Ability to model and govern reward, compensation, payroll, benefits and workforce data required for EUPT reporting. Experience supporting complex reporting requirements spanning multiple countries, legal entities and regulatory frameworks. Workday & P&C Technology Expertise Experience architecting solutions using Workday HCM, Workday Compensation and Workday reporting capabilities. Experience with Workday Prism and enterprise data hub patterns for consolidating payroll, HCM, reward and workforce data. Experience designing solutions integrating Workday with multiple external payroll providers and non-Workday HR platforms. Integration & Data Architecture Experience designing secure payroll integration architectures using SFTP, encryption, managed file transfer and batch processing patterns. Strong knowledge of payroll file ingestion, transformation, standardization and harmonization processes across multiple payroll vendors. Security, Compliance & Governance Strong understanding of GDPR, payroll data security, data retention and audit requirements. Experience designing solutions handling highly sensitive colleague payroll and compensation information with appropriate security controls and segregation of duties. Experience establishing data quality, governance and traceability controls for regulatory reporting solutions. Preferred Payroll Experience Delivered enterprise Cloud Pay payroll transformations within a large multinational retailer. Experience working with multiple European payroll providers and payroll outsourcing partners.
The Role: Solution Architect - Global Payroll and EUPT Location: Reading, UK Position Type: Contract Inside IR35 Remote work option Available: 3- Days Work from Office Job Description: Essential Experience Proven experience (5yrs +) designing and delivering enterprise-scale technology solutions across platforms, products, or domains. Excellent collaboration skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical peers and stakeholders alike. Payroll Domain Expertise Proven experience designing and delivering global payroll solutions across multiple countries, payroll providers and legislative jurisdictions. Deep understanding of end-to-end payroll processes including gross-to-net calculations, taxation, statutory deductions, pensions, benefits, payroll controls and reconciliation. Experience defining global payroll templates, common payroll operating models and management of country-specific deviations. Experience with payroll transformation programmes involving payroll vendor consolidation, platform replacement or country migrations. Experience designing payroll finance integrations including payroll journals, costing, accruals, reconciliation and General Ledger posting. EU Pay Transparency & Reward Expertise Strong understanding of EU Pay Transparency Directive requirements, including pay gap reporting, employee right-to-information requests and regulatory disclosure obligations. Experience designing solutions supporting pay equity analysis, compensation reporting and transparency reporting across multiple European markets. Ability to model and govern reward, compensation, payroll, benefits and workforce data required for EUPT reporting. Experience supporting complex reporting requirements spanning multiple countries, legal entities and regulatory frameworks. Workday & P&C Technology Expertise Experience architecting solutions using Workday HCM, Workday Compensation and Workday reporting capabilities. Experience with Workday Prism and enterprise data hub patterns for consolidating payroll, HCM, reward and workforce data. Experience designing solutions integrating Workday with multiple external payroll providers and non-Workday HR platforms. Integration & Data Architecture Experience designing secure payroll integration architectures using SFTP, encryption, managed file transfer and batch processing patterns. Strong knowledge of payroll file ingestion, transformation, standardization and harmonization processes across multiple payroll vendors. Security, Compliance & Governance Strong understanding of GDPR, payroll data security, data retention and audit requirements. Experience designing solutions handling highly sensitive colleague payroll and compensation information with appropriate security controls and segregation of duties. Experience establishing data quality, governance and traceability controls for regulatory reporting solutions. Preferred Payroll Experience Delivered enterprise Cloud Pay payroll transformations within a large multinational retailer. Experience working with multiple European payroll providers and payroll outsourcing partners.
