Senior Associate, Payroll Delivery, Newcastle Upon Tyne/Manchester/Belfast 1 1 1

Company: EY (Ernst & Young)
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Location: Manchester
Job Description:

Overview

As an AI-enabled solutions analyst in Global Payroll Operations, you identify operational pain points and turn them into practical tools and improvements. You’ll work across the engagement lifecycle, employing AI-assisted development to deliver prototypes, data utilities and workflow automations at pace. This is a business-facing role focused on governance, safety and adoption, not traditional software engineering. You help practitioners do more with AI while ensuring human accountability and sound risk management. You’ll join a collaborative, innovation-driven EY team shaping payroll and tax delivery at scale.

Pay / Benefits

  • enterprise AI development tools
  • supportive coaching
  • flexible working
  • career development
  • competitive total rewards
  • inclusive culture

Responsibilities

  • Deliver AI-augmented solutions across the engagement lifecycle, including prototypes, data utilities and automation tools.
  • Validate AI-generated logic, test edge cases, and fix defects before release; gather user feedback and iterate in short cycles.
  • Maintain version histories, release notes and user-facing guidance; follow procedures while seizing safe improvement opportunities.
  • Analyze processes and data to identify inefficiencies, quantify effort and risk, and produce concise assessments with mitigations.
  • Ensure governance, data protection and audit trails; map outputs to controls and document limitations and rollback plans.
  • Apply DevOps practices for versioning, testing, release, deployment verification and rollback; keep environments secure and traceable.
  • Support non-technical stakeholders to adopt AI-assisted ways of working; create user guides and training materials.

Key requirements

  • 3–4 years of professional experience in business analysis, solutions delivery, consulting, operations, software development, technology enablement, project or product management.
  • Experience using AI tools to deliver tangible outputs (prototypes, analyses, documents, workflows).
  • Strong communication skills with senior stakeholders; ability to work independently in ambiguous problems.
  • Willingness to travel within the UK; no formal degree required.
  • collaborative
  • curious
  • risk-aware
  • experience with AI tools to create outputs
  • data transformation and data-quality awareness
  • reading AI-generated code and directing corrections

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Posted: November 1st, 2026