Payroll Implementation Consultant

**Our story**

Strada is a technology-enabled, people powered company committed to delivering world-class payroll, human capital management, and financial management solutions to organizations globally.

With a team of more than 8,000 experts and over 30 years of expertise, Strada blends leading-edge technology with human ingenuity to help businesses across the globe design and deliver at scale. Supporting over 1,400 customers in 33 countries, Strada partners with customers at every stage of their journey, to help drive their vision forward.

It’s why we’re so driven to connect passion with purpose. Our team’s experience in human insights and cloud technology gives companies and employees around the world the ability to power confident decisions, for life.

With a comprehensive total rewards package, continuing education and training, and tremendous potential with a growing global organization, Strada is the perfect place to put your passion to work.

**Payroll Implementation Consultant, Malaysia**

Strada Pay is a dynamic cloud-based payroll calculation engine that continuously recalculates payroll, delivering updated results instantly in response to changes. Featuring SOC1 compliance controls and a comprehensive dashboard, it eliminates high pressure processing, minimizes processing downtime and maximizes data input time. Built-in defensive queries and anomaly detection ensure increased payroll accuracy by proactively identifying potential payroll infringement. The intelligent solution reimagines the payroll process and is designed with the needs of today and the reality of tomorrow in mind. Set to be available in numerous countries worldwide by the end of the year with more planned on the 2025 roadmap, the solution is set to disrupt payroll as we know it today, with innovation at its core.

As part of this product roadmap, here lies an opportunity for an experience Functional Consultant to join our team as the Strada Pay Implementer. You will provide functional consultancy on implementations of Strada Pay within the designated country.

The Payroll Implementation Consultant will be fully involved in the whole project lifecycle, including client liaison, confirming requirements & guidance aligned with Strada Pay best practices, completing configuration documents and questionnaires, providing effective configuration & testing of the solution, and supporting other go-live activities.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Client-facing functional lead supporting kick-off and leading functional requirements discussions.
- Working with the client to capture payroll configuration information required to finalize Strada Pay workbooks.
- Identify deviations from Strada Pay standards (product & processes).
- Working closely with Strada’s Product team to complete the configuration of the payroll solution.
- Validate payroll solution & integrations as part of the project testing cycles.
- Perform data validations in the payroll system.
- Coordinate defect resolution with relevant teams.
- Input to and updates the project plan.
- Support data mapping and data validations across all systems and issue resolutions.
- Support integration issues resolution.
- Support UAT and parallel testing.
- Support data validations across all systems and issue resolutions.
- Responsible for workaround definitions and resolutions.
- Support and oversee knowledge transfer to Delivery and Operational Payroll teams.

**Requirements**:

- Experience in a functional consulting/analytical capacity within a payroll outsourcing or payroll software environment for at least 3-5 years
- Experience and strong knowledge of the specified country’s payroll and compliance (e.g. tax, legislation etc.) - Malaysia
- Experience of the payroll implementation project lifecycle.
- Strong client-facing communication skills.
- Ability to articulate and document client requirements.
- Find creative and simple ways to address client issues or risks.
- Strong stakeholder management skills and an ability to interact with all levels of business.
- Propose alternative solutions assessing feasibility and costs.
- Ability to be proactive and problem-solve.
- Strong knowledge of MS Office tools including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
- Flexibility to support a global and fast paced environment.
- Attention to detail.
- Excellent written and verbal skills.

**Benefits**

We offer programs and plans for a healthy mind, body, wallet and life because it’s important our benefits care for the whole person. Options include a variety of health coverage options, wellbeing and support programs, retirement, vacation and sick leave, maternity, paternity & adoption leave, continuing education and training as well as a number of voluntary benefit options.

**Our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion**

Strada is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We celebrate differences and believe in fostering an environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and supported. We know that di