Payroll Implementation Lead
Role Purpose
The Payroll Implementation Lead is accountable for ensuring payroll operations are fully ready to successfully transition to and operate the future-state payroll solution. The role acts as the payroll implementation readiness lead across design, testing, controls, training, cutover, and stabilization, providing vendor assurance that payroll can be delivered accurately, compliantly, and without disruption post go-live.
Key Responsibilities
Payroll Readiness Leadership
• Own end-to-end payroll readiness across people, process, technology, data, controls, and vendor support.
• Establish and manage readiness gates, entry/exit criteria, and go/no-go recommendations.
• Drive resolution of readiness risks, dependencies, and open issues impacting payroll delivery.

Process & Operational Readiness
• Validate future-state payroll processes, SOPs, operating procedures, and service delivery model.
• Ensure explicit ownership, governance, escalation paths, and support structures are in place prior to go-live.




• Verify operational handover readiness between project, vendor, and payroll operations teams.

Testing & Quality Assurance
• Lead payroll business testing readiness, including SIT, UAT, parallel payroll, reconciliation, and control validation.
• Review testing outcomes, defect closure, and business sign-off quality.
• Ensure payroll accuracy and compliance requirements are demonstrated before deployment.

Data, Controls & Compliance
• Oversee workday data quality, payroll data readiness, migration validation, reconciliations, and audit evidence.
• Ensure key payroll controls, SOD, security access, and compliance requirements are embedded and operational.
• Validate mitigation plans for any residual control or compliance risks.

Cutover & Go-Live Management
• Coordinate payroll cutover activities, business sign-offs, contingency planning, and operational acceptance.
• Lead go-live readiness reviews and recommend go/no-go decisions based

📌 Payroll Implementation Lead (Bengaluru)
🏢 Fresenius Medical Care
📍 Bengaluru