About Kerry

Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. Every day we partner with customers to create healthier, tastier and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world. Our vision is to be our customers' most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition. A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment.

About the role

The Senior Analyst - Payroll supports the global HR business with best practices, governance, and monitoring of payroll processes. This role includes supporting modules such as Employee Central Payroll, Strada, ADP Celergo, and Employee Central.

Reporting to the Global HRIS Manager, the Senior HRIS Analyst - Payroll will leverage their payroll and HR expertise to lead projects, gather requirements, improve business processes, manage change, ensure quality, mitigate risk, and support user enablement. Collaboration and effective project delivery will maximize the value of our SuccessFactors solution.
 

Key responsibilities

• Support Kerry’s overall ICT Payroll strategy and help drive efficiencies in our configuration to support enhanced ways of working across our global teams.
• Collaborate with other team members to provide a full set of functional services and technical services.
• Proactively monitor and resolve any system related issues that could impact end-user experience, data integrity, or overall end-to-end system functionality.
• Lead on any mergers, acquisitions and divestiture activities, ensuring key stakeholders, such as Finance and ICT Service Delivery teams, are fully engaged.
• Deliver new business solutions by executing projects from end-to-end, by participating in activities ranging from requirements gathering, gap analysis, solution design, process documentation, system configuration, test planning and execution, support for training documentation delivery and post go live support.
• Manage day-to-day changes for Kerry’s payroll, including configuration and role-based permissions.
• Ensure consistent process across our solution.
• Support the implementation of new products, new processes and requirements.
• Manage the release cycles such as year-end support packs, and work with the Global HRIS Manager to determine our release plan/approach.
• Manage thorough testing of system changes in our lower instances (Preview/Test) and Production environments.
• Ensure regular refreshes of our lower instances to mirror our Production settings as part of regular system maintenance.
• Maintain updated and accurate system configuration documentation.
• Ensure that Kerry’s change management processes are followed.
• Interact with SuccessFactors Support and our Support Partners to manage issues/resolution

Qualifications and skills

• Experience in complex organizational - wide problem solving, analyzing and synthesizing disparate sources of data
• Previous experience of ECP, Strada or ADP essential; Accreditation desirable
• Knowledge of GDPR and data privacy laws
• Experience in a managerial position
• Be able to build strong relationships with all key stakeholders
• Comfortable ensuring all stakeholders are fully trained in correct/relevant user processes to ensure a 'right first time' way of working
• Confident giving both targeted feedback to individuals and small groups and widespread feedback to larger communities where education and strategic improvements are required to ensure processes continue to be effective and efficient
• Proactively use problem solving skills to help drive efficiencies within our platform
• Proven track record of managing complex mid to large scale projects
• Demonstrated attention to detail and ability to handle multiple tasks, meet deadlines and maintain high quality work
• Highly organized and detail oriented
• Able to work both independently and as a team at all levels
• Strong business analysis, project management, and communication skills
• Advanced understanding of business processes, standards and practices around HR
• Strong experience in process improvement and optimization
• Knowledge of Employee central, Employee Central Payroll, Strada, ADP Global View and ADP Celergo platforms - and ideally have been part of previous deployments/implementations
• Working knowledge of ServiceNow HR Service Delivery suite and the wider Success Factors suite would be a significant advantage
• Previous experience of SAP on payroll is an advantage