Advanced Specialist, Business Analytics

Pearson is the world's lifelong learning company, dedicated to helping people realize their potential through education. The Advanced Specialist in Business Analytics will contribute to global payroll transformation by documenting processes, supporting governance, and facilitating business change initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Document current payroll processes, workflows, handoffs, controls and dependencies across countries or initiatives
• Create and maintain clear process maps, standard operating procedures, workflow documentation and operational playbooks
• Support payroll transformation initiatives by assessing readiness, identifying risks, documenting impacts and tracking key actions
• Gather and validate inputs from stakeholders across Payroll, HR Operations, Finance, Technology, Legal, Procurement and external providers
• Support business change activities, including vendor transitions, platform changes, service delivery improvements and M&A-related payroll workstreams
• Identify manual workarounds, process gaps and automation opportunities for further review by technology or transformation teams
• Coordinate governance activities such as readiness checkpoints, issue logs, decision records and action trackers
• Share documentation standards, process insights and best practices to support consistent ways of working

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in any field
• Experience in business analysis, payroll operations, HR operations, finance operations, process improvement, governance or transformation support
• Strong ability to document processes, map workflows and translate complex information into clear, practical outputs
• Experience working with cross-functional stakeholders in a global or multi-country environment
• Flexibility to collaborate and work across different time zones depending on the projects and regions supported, including teams in the Americas, Europe, the UK and APAC
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
• Good understanding of operational risk, controls, dependencies and issue tracking
• Strong attention to detail, organization, follow-up and documentation discipline
• Ability to work independently, use good judgment and prioritize based on business impact
• a degree in Business, Finance, HR, Accounting or a related area