Base Location
You’ll be expected to spend 50% of your working week in one of the following locations - Perth.
Salary
£29,504 - £34,757
Working Pattern
12 month Fixed Term Contract | Flexible First options available
The Role
As a Payroll Administrator, you’ll play an important role in supporting the smooth and accurate delivery of our UK payroll. Working as part of a collaborative and supportive team, you’ll help ensure colleagues are paid correctly and on time, while providing a reliable and responsive service to both internal and external stakeholders. This is a great opportunity to contribute to a team that values accuracy, continuous improvement, and working together to make processes more efficient and effective.
Responsibilities
* Process weekly and monthly payroll transactions accurately, ensuring deadlines are met and colleagues are paid on time.
* Build positive working relationships with colleagues and HR teams to resolve payroll queries in a timely and supportive way.
* Provide a high level of customer service to internal and external stakeholders.
* Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance processes and ways of working.
* Maintain accurate payroll records while ensuring compliance with relevant processes and controls.
Qualifications
* Experience working in payroll or a similar environment, with a strong focus on accuracy and attention to detail.
* Confidence working with numbers and systems, including Microsoft 365 (particularly Excel).
* Experience using payroll and expenses systems (Oracle Payroll experience would be beneficial).
* A well‑organised and methodical approach, with the ability to manage deadlines calmly and effectively.
* A collaborative mindset, with a commitment to providing supportive and high-quality customer service.
About SSE
SSE’s purpose is to provide energy needed today while building a better world of energy for tomorrow. We do this by developing, building, operating and investing in electricity infrastructure and businesses needed in the energy transition. Our Transforming for Growth investment plan sees us investing £33bn in critical electricity infrastructure across the five years to 2030. Over 14,500 brilliant people work together to power change at SSE. Our Human Resources (integrated Services) teams help make sure they're getting and giving their best. They design the people strategies that make SSE a great place to work. And they empower our teams to meet the demands of our business today, and tomorrow.
Benefits
Flexible Benefits To Fit Your Life. Enjoy discounts on private healthcare and gym memberships. Wellbeing benefits like a free online GP and 24/7 counselling service. Interest‑free loans on tech and transport season tickets, or a new bike with our Cycle to Work scheme. As well as generous family entitlements such as maternity and adoption pay, and paternity leave.
Equal Opportunity
SSE will make any reasonable adjustments you need to ensure that your application and experience with us is positive. Please contact Janet.Gossman@sse.com / 01738 351816 to discuss how we can support you. We're dedicated to fostering an open and inclusive workplace where people from all backgrounds can thrive. We create equal opportunities for everyone to succeed and especially welcome applications from those who may not be well represented in our workforce or industry.
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