Payroll Implementation Analyst

Management Level

Equiniti is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation, and credit technology. With over 6000 employees, it supports 37 million people in 120 countries.

EQ’s vision is to be the leading global share registrar, offering complementary services to its client base and our values set the core foundations to our success. We are TRUSTED to deliver on our commitments, COMMERCIAL in building long term value, COLLABORATIVE in our approach and we IMPROVE by continually enhancing our skills and services. There has never been a better time to join EQ.

Role Summary

The Payroll Implementation Analyst will work closely with our Payroll Analysts, Consultants, Developers, Testers and Business subject matter experts to provide solutions to improve/development and support of the “PenServer and Compendia” Pensions payroll software. Ensuring pension and annuity payments are made accurately and on time for internal customers, hosted and own site clients.

The role also involves new projects and client implementations, development and support of both core and client specific processes.

This role will be subject to advanced screening / security clearance.

Core Duties/Responsibilities

To play an effective, efficient and proactive role within the Equiniti Payroll Delivery Team. Specific areas of responsibility include:

• Produce or contribute to requirements, technical and functional specifications.
• Participate in the formal agreement and sign-off of requirement and other specifications.
• Develop an understanding of how to design and produce low cost, simple and effective, user friendly solutions based on both Microsoft and proprietary programming tools, ensuring the design incorporates low level post implementation incidents. Include data considerations in any design work.
• Produce and agree system prototypes to ensure user acceptance of major design work.
• Configure systems according to company standards.
• Ensure successful development and delivery of all configuration and programming activities to meet the technical design and provide post implementation support.
• Ensure that code is re-used or enhanced instead of bespoke function creation.
• Undertake unit and link testing.
• Produce user and system documentation to company standards ensuring easy to use and maintainable processes.
• Exercise project administration/control on small projects in accordance with Prince2 standards.
• Provide support for existing installed systems to agreed SLA.
• Maintain helpdesk entries throughout the lifecycle of reported incidents.
• Produce accurate estimates before undertaking work, ensuring that unknowns are published.
• Analyse changes and enhancements to client’s payrolls, taking a view of their impact on the software as installed for the client.

Skills, Capabilities and Attributes

• Experience working with a product development company (ideally in payroll).
• Familiarity with consulting and/or the administration and/or the implementation of systems in the pensions arena.
• Excellent verbal, written and presentational skills.
• Ability to develop working relationships at all levels.
• Excellent analytical skills and innovative approach to problem solving.
• An ability to investigate and interpret client needs and business requirements and translate them into specifications.
• Excellent communications skills and able to liaise confidently with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Wide knowledge of software delivery methodologies and best practice.

What We Offer

• Save For Your Future - Equiniti Pension Plan; Equiniti matches your pension contributions up to 10%
• All Employee Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) – Gives all EQ Colleagues the opportunity to benefit if the current owners successfully sell the company for a profit.
• Health and Wellbeing – Employee Assistance Programme: counselling, legal & wellbeing support for colleagues and their households. Life assurance cover at 4x salary with the ability to purchase enhance cover.
• Employee discounts – Discounts and cashback at your favourite high street stores through our EQ Wins Platform.
• Flexible Benefits – The ability to purchase a wide variety of benefits through our flex plan; gadgets, travel insurance, will writing, holiday trading and more.
• Time Off – Typically 29 days holiday + bank holidays. 2 volunteer days to get involved with a charity of your choosing.
• Winning together – Equiniti ICON award vouchers; recognising the individuals going above and beyond to help the business succeed.
• Learning & Development – Investment in LinkedIn Learning for all colleagues. 

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks. These consist of 5 year activity & GAP verification, DBS or Access NI, Credit, Sanctions & CIFAS checks.