Senior Consultant – BAU (Denmark) full time

Mercans HQ: Dubai, United Arab Emirates, United Arab Emirates Remote job Sep 13

The Senior Consultant – BAU delivers accurate, timely, and compliant payroll services for global clients. As the main contact for clients and internal teams, the consultant manages multi-country payroll, resolves service issues, and keeps delivery aligned with contracts. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, client-focused, and able to work independently.

  • Process multi-country payroll in line with local laws, payroll calendars, and agreed turnaround times.
  • Validate employee data, earnings, deductions, taxes, and statutory contributions.
  • Reconcile Gross-to-Net results, bank files, and General Ledger outputs before payroll release.
  • Manage year-end processing, statutory reports, tax filings, audits, and required payments accurately and on time.
  • Monitor regulatory changes and implement required updates.
  • Serve as the main point of contact for payroll matters and communicate clearly about progress, issues, and deadlines.
  • Ensure services remain within the contractual scope, manage expectations, and escalate possible scope gaps.
  • Coordinate and document approved service changes with internal teams.
  • Track customer support tickets, follow up on unresolved items, and ensure resolution within agreed SLAs.
  • Prepare monthly SLA reports, analyze recurring failures, and recommend corrective actions.
  • Accept new clients following implementation and Hypercare, reviewing process documents, configurations, service agreements, and handover checklists.
  • Perform end-to-end payroll tests to confirm calculation accuracy, system configuration, and statutory compliance before BAU ownership.
  • Maintain current process documentation and knowledge-transfer plans.
  • Ensure at least one trained backup resource is available for each client to prevent service disruption during absences.
  • Maintain SOPs, wage-type catalogs, data dictionaries, and client-specific payroll documentation.
  • Record change requests, obtain required approvals, and track configuration changes through implementation.
  • Identify manual tasks, workflow bottlenecks, and recurring errors that can be automated or simplified.
  • Strong knowledge of multi-country payroll processing, taxation, statutory contributions, labor regulations, and compliance requirements.
  • Experience managing SLAs, support tickets, escalations, client governance, reporting, and root cause analysis.
  • Ability to manage onboarding, Hypercare transitions, payroll testing, service scope, and expectations.
  • Strong analytical, reconciliation, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
  • Excellent communication, organization, and attention to detail.
  • At least seven years of experience in global payroll processing, outsourced payroll services, or payroll consulting.
  • Experience in customer tickets, SLA tracking, and service reporting is desirable.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field.
  • Professional payroll certification such as GPC, CPP, CIPP, or IPASS is preferred.
  1. Payroll accuracy: Achieve a 99.7% accuracy rate within six months through automated validation and additional reconciliation checks.
  2. On-time delivery: Maintain 100% on-time payroll submission for all cycles over the next 12 months using standardized calendars and reminders.
  3. SLA compliance: Reach 95% ticket-resolution compliance within three months through active monitoring and escalation.
  4. Statutory compliance: Maintain 100% accurate and timely filings and payments for the next 12 months, supported by automation and monthly audits.
  5. Client satisfaction: Achieve a 90% quarterly satisfaction score within two quarters through faster issue resolution and proactive communication.
  6. Documentation: Complete and validate SOPs, wage-type catalogs, and data dictionaries for all active clients within six months.
  7. Automation: Identify and submit at least five payroll tasks for automation within 12 months.
  8. Business continuity: Train at least one backup resource for every client within six months.
  9. Turnaround time: Reduce payroll processing time by 20% within six months by removing bottlenecks and improving workflows.
  10. Root cause improvement: Resolve at least 80% of recurring SLA failures within three months using monthly reporting and analysis.
  11. Portfolio capacity: Successfully manage at least 20 clients or 1,500 payslips per month within 12 months while maintaining accuracy and service standards.
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Full-time (40 hrs/wk)
Negotiable rate