Time & Attendance Subject Matter Expert

Building a sustainable tomorrow

BAM UK & I are looking for a Time and Attendance Subject Matter Expert to join us on a 12 month FTC contract to be based from any of our UK & I offices. 

Your mission

We are seeking a knowledgeable and experienced Time and Attendance Subject Matter Expert to support the implementation of a new payroll solution at BAM UK & Ireland. This client-side role will play a critical part in ensuring that existing and new time and attendance processes integrated, and tested effectively as part of the broader payroll transformation programme.

Key Responsibilities
•    Act as the subject matter expert (SME) for Time and Attendance processes, advising on leading practice and optimised end-to-end design.
•    Support the definition and documentation of time capture, approvals, and exception handling processes across BAM UK&I.
•    Engage closely with the Payroll, Finance, and existing Time and Attendance teams to ensure consistent and accurate input into the new payroll solution.
•    Collaborate with the system integrator and internal stakeholders to design, validate, and test Time and Attendance integrations with the payroll system.
•    Contribute to the Data Migration strategy, ensuring time and attendance data is accurately cleansed, mapped, and transferred.
•    Lead and support testing activities (e.g. SIT, UAT, Parallel Payroll Testing), ensuring time-related processes and data flow correctly into payroll calculations.
•    Act as a key liaison between the payroll project team and time and attendance operations teams, ensuring alignment on process, scope, and system functionality.
•    Provide expert input into issue resolution, change requests, and risk mitigation related to time and attendance.
•    Ensure all time-related solutions support compliance, accuracy, and business efficiency.
•    Support change management, training, and communications related to time and attendance.

Who are we looking for?

Required Skills and Experience
•    Strong expertise in Time and Attendance processes and best practice, ideally gained in large or complex organisations.
•    Proven experience supporting payroll or HRIS transformation programmes with a time and attendance component.
•    Experience in Workforce Software or similar enterprise-level Time and Attendance solutions is highly desirable.
•    Strong understanding of integration design, particularly between Time and Attendance and Payroll platforms.
•    Excellent data analysis, data migration, and validation skills.
•    Ability to interpret and challenge technical designs and propose business-aligned solutions.
•    Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, with experience working in cross-functional teams.
•    Detail-oriented with good documentation, organisational, and communication capabilities.

What’s in it for you?

· Competitive salary

· A wide range of family friendly policies

· 8 % matched pension contributions

· Private healthcare

· Life assurance

· 26 days holiday

· 2 wellbeing days

· 1 volunteering day

· Personal and professional development

Your work environment

People are at the heart of what we do at BAM. We recognise that creating a diverse and inclusive environment that nurtures our employees and encourages them to bring their best and whole self to work is crucial. We’re on an exciting journey to get us there by recruiting the very best talent to join us regardless of race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or other characteristics.
Be you! Join us today, so we can achieve amazing things together and build a sustainable tomorrow

Who are we?

The art of building is about building for communities; it’s about building for life.

Where others stop, we go further, leading the way towards a sustainable tomorrow for us and future generations. As an industry leader, we raise the bar.

Our values: sustainable, inclusive, collaborative, reliable and ownership, enable us to achieve our ambitions. Today, tomorrow and every day.

Our recruitment process, what you need to know?

BAM is committed to ensuring a fully inclusive recruitment and onboarding process, so if at any time you feel we need to do something to make it more accessible to you, do not hesitate to speak with one of our team, and we will do our best to support you.

Closing date of 30th May