Our client a well-established, national service company are currently recruiting an enthusiastic, proactive, and flexible Payroll & HR Administrator to support the smooth running of the employee lifecycle and ensure colleagues receive an excellent service by maintaining precise records, delivering compliant payroll processing, and administering key employee benefits. Reporting to and assisting the HR Manager duties to include: Support the full employee lifecycle including onboarding, contract preparation, induction scheduling, and offboarding documentation. Maintain accurate and GDPR compliant employee records within the HRIS, ensuring all data changes are processed promptly. Track and monitor key milestones such as probation reviews, appraisal deadlines, and mandatory training compliance. Prepare regular HR, payroll, and benefits reports including headcount, turnover, absence, and benefits uptake. Prepare, process, and validate monthly payrolls for all employees, updating payroll records including new starters, leavers, contract changes, salary adjustments, statutory payments and pension administration. Administer auto-enrolment processes, pension changes, and employee deductions and maintain monthly overtime records. Administer employee benefits including private medical cover, life assurance, pension schemes, and wellbeing benefits. As an ideal candidate you will have a background in payroll administration and experience in HR would be desirable, you will also possess excellent communication/IT skills and a great attention to detail with an excellent telephone manner. You will have the ability to use initiative and prioritise tasks, also process data entry in an efficient manner. Experience using Paycircle and People HR, with current CIPD Level 3 qualification (or working towards) could be beneficial. In return the company offers a competitive remunerations package with plenty of ongoing training and optional study support available for CIPD, the option of flexible hybrid working and the role also offers genuine scope for fantastic career progression. This role can be optional full or part time.