Business/Systems Analyst - EU Payroll - F56551

Job Title: Business/Systems Analyst - EU Payroll

Location: Basildon, Essex - 4 days minimum mandatory onsite, likely 1 day per week remote

Hourly Rate: £30.18ph Umbrella Co Basis (Inside IR35) – increasing to £39.55ph Umbrella co basis after 13 weeks.

Employment Type: Contract (initially approx. 12 months)

Hours: Standard 37.5 Hours Per Week

Reference: F56551

Position Description:

Business/Systems Analyst - EU Payroll IT

The EU Payroll IT team is responsible for the systems and processes supporting payroll operations across Spain, Belgium and the UK, with additional light touch support provided to other EU National Sales Companies (NSCs). The team ensures payroll systems run reliably day to day while also delivering improvement and transformation initiatives.

Role Purpose - We are looking for a competent Business or Systems Analyst to join our EU Payroll IT team. This role will split time between supporting business as usual (BAU) payroll IT activities and contributing to future programmes of work, particularly within the UK. The ideal candidate will have strong core BA skills, with some technical understanding being a valuable bonus, particularly around system architecture, environments and release processes.

Skills Required:

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst, ideally within payroll, HR or a related HR/IT systems environment.
• Strong requirements gathering, stakeholder management and documentation skills.
• Experience supporting UAT and structured testing processes.
• Ability to work across multiple countries and stakeholder groups and manage competing priorities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate business needs for technical audiences and vice versa.
• Comfortable working in a BAU support environment alongside project and programme work.
• Basic understanding of system architecture diagrams and how to interpret them.

Skills Preferred:

• Awareness of environment planning (for example dev, test, UAT and production).
• Familiarity with release management processes.
• Understanding of FTP/SFTP file transfer processes, as commonly used in payroll data interfaces.
• General overview knowledge of cloud migration concepts and considerations.

Education Required:

Degree

Education Preferred:

2:1 Degree or above

Additional Information :

** THIS POSITION IS CONFIRMED INSIDE IR35 **

Dunton - 4 days a week on site

IR35 Details:

IR35: IR35 IN