Payroll Data Migration Manager

Quick Facts

• Role: Payroll Data Migration Manager

• Work model: Remote

• Contract length: Minimum 6 months (possible extension)

• Start: January/February

• Workload: 1 FTE

• Language requirement: English (C1)

Description

Lead global payroll data migration activities across countries, enforcing the standardized migration methodology and ensuring complete, verifiable documentation before migrating to Workday. You will monitor ETL processes, define a data cleansing strategy, and establish reconciliation frameworks to guarantee consistency and accountability for employee and payroll data. Provide migration readiness assessments and recommendations to global leadership.

Responsibilities

• Ensure local country teams follow the global data migration methodology

• Consolidate and maintain complete, consistent, and auditable migration documentation and status by country

• Assess migration readiness and provide recommendations to the Global Project Manager and Programme Manager

• Define and oversee the data cleansing strategy

• Monitor ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) from source systems into the Workday target

• Set up a reconciliation framework to compare historical and migrated data

• Run or manage reconciliation activities, including headcount checks, total payroll amounts, and tax configuration verification

Requirements

• Practical experience working with the Workday ecosystem

• C1 business English

• Proven experience delivering complex data migration projects

• Solid understanding of HR/payroll data

• Experience with data mapping, data cleansing, reconciliation, and ETL processes

• Project and stakeholder management experience with confidence working with international country-level teams

• Knowledge of data protection and security practices for sensitive personal data