Your candidacy is currently being considered for a requisition for an Alight Inc group company. As you may be aware, Alight has announced intent to divest its Payroll & Professional Services business to HIG Capital. After the transaction closes, this position will be aligned to the new Payroll & Professional Services owned by HIG Capital (‘Divested Group’). By applying for this position which will be with the Divested Group company, you understand and agree to the information you submitted for your application with Alight being shared with the Divested Group company. In addition, if you are made an offer of employment, it will be contingent on your undergoing and successfully completing a background check consistent with the Divested Group company employment policies. Hey there, Are you an individual with strong analytic skills and a tech savvy wizard with Excel? Are you comfortable working in technical payroll environment and are looking for the next chapter in your career where you can put all your skills to help create multi country payroll solutions using the latest in low code no code frameworks? Yes! Then **_Payroll Configuration Specialist_** role is one for you…. Alight Cloud Pay is a product innovation that created Alight own IP Cloud payroll engine based on no code / low code set-up so that country payroll can operate in a touch-less manner. We are in the process of building out a Center of Excellence (COE) team who can help with setting up country payrolls in Alight Cloud Pay. The COE team is an extended part of the Payroll Product organization and is responsible of ensuring that Alight’s Cloud Pays Country Solutions are set-up the right way with best practices and standards in mind, bring consistence in set-up across our country payrolls. The **_Payroll Configuration Specialist_** role will be part of the COE team where the key focus will be to help configure and set-up the standard country payroll solution by working closely with the Payroll Country Owners (PCOs), Products Management, Engineering and QA teams. They will be involved in using our Alight Cloud Pay Excel workbook in configuring country requirements and rules. The set-up includes updating and maintaining payroll data model workbooks, payroll calculations workbooks and payroll outputs (report and interfaces) workbooks needed to deliver a compliant country payroll, whilst adhering to best practices and standards. **Key Responsibilities** + Develop a deep understanding of Alight Payroll own IP solution at a functional/ technical as well as business level. + Support the network of Payroll Country Owners (PCOs) who are local country payroll experts by understanding the country payroll requirements or client reporting needs and then using Alight Cloud Pay’s low code / no code framework, configure the needed solution using Alight Cloud Pay excel workbooks. + Test payroll configurations and updates to ensure accuracy. + Identify and resolve payroll system issues and discrepancies. + Maintain and adhere to Alight Cloud Pays best practices and standards to ensure consistency across countries. + Work with other product teams members to understand the more complex requirements, gaps, or issues to better our Alight Cloud Pay framework capabilities. + Ensure work is tracked, reported, and managed in line with the Alight Product SDLC and DevOps process. + Flag and manage issues and / or risks that impact the country localization delivery plan. + Provide coaching and advice to the PCOs and other business stakeholder, on Alight Cloud Pay solution and capabilities. + Develop guides and documentation for Alight Cloud Pay framework capabilities. + Collaborates with Engineering team and stakeholders to detected new features and user stories, based on requirements that include acceptance criteria and acceptance tests. **Required Qualifications &** **Competencies** + **Bachelor’s or Master's degree** in human resources, Finance, Business Administration, Information Technology, or a related field. + Experience in **payroll** processing and / or payroll **system configuration.** + Excellent to Advanced knowledge of **Excel** is a must **.** + Excellent analytical and **problem-solving** skills. + Any country legislative **payroll knowledge** is a plus. + Service-oriented and pro-active with a keen sense of **Accountability** . + Excellent **Team Player** collaborating with various teams. + Self-starter and pro-active and with a **“how to / can do”** mind set. + Any experienced working with **Azure DevOps** or similar (Jira) welcomed. + **W** **illingness to learn** and further develop your career in a Cloud Payroll configuration and support environment. + Fluent in **English** (written, oral). We offer you a competitive total rewards package, continuing education & training, and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization. Pay Transparency Statement: Alight considers a variety of factors in determining whether to extend an offer of employment and in setting the appropriate compensation level, including, but not limited to, a candidate’s experience, education, certification/credentials, market data, internal equity, and geography. Alight makes these decisions on an individualized, non-discriminatory basis. Bonus and/or incentive eligibility are determined by role and level. Alight also offers a comprehensive benefits package; for specific details on our benefits package, please visit: https://bit.ly/Alight\_Benefits **DISCLAIMER:** Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job to other entities; including but not limited to subsidiaries, partners, or purchasers of Alight business units. . **About Alight Solutions** Alight is a leading cloud-based human capital technology and services provider that powers confident health, wealth and wellbeing decisions for 36 million people and dependents. Our Alight Worklife® platform combines data and analytics with a simple, seamless user experience. Supported by our global delivery capabilities, Alight Worklife is transforming the employee experience for people around the world. With personalized, data-driven health, wealth, pay and wellbeing insights, Alight brings people the security of better outcomes and peace of mind throughout life’s big moments and most important decisions. Learn how Alight unlocks growth for organizations of all sizes at alight.com . **Our values are the essence of who we are:** **Champion people.** We are empathetic and have created a place where everyone belongs. And we win together. **Grow with purpose.** We are inspired by our higher calling. We fail forward and choose progress over perfection. We are brave, show grit and grow our whole selves. **Be Alight.** We are a beacon that empowers others. We act with integrity and are real. And we find ways to add joy. **Our Colleague Experience** At Alight Solutions, we are reimaging how people and organizations thrive. To deliver on this purpose, we do things differently. From company leaders to our newest colleagues, we all play a role in bringing our values to life. Every colleague shapes how Alight can become better, stronger and brighter – together. With technology as our catalyst and humanity at our core, we advance each day toward a better future in work and life. We understand the powerful human connections that create success for organizations. We bring an industry leader's expertise and a true partner's commitment to our benefits and administration solutions around health, wealth, HR, finance and consumer experience. Are you interested in helping us shape the future of work and life for organizations, people and their families? If so, you've come to the right place. Help us reimagine how people and organizations thrive! Our story starts with a simple, universal truth: Every business is a people business. We are Alight Solutions. Reimagining how people and organizations thrive. @AlightSolutions