📍 Location: Liverpool, Merseyside
💰 Salary: £26,000pa - £27,000pa
🏢 Hybrid Working - 2 days in the office (subject to business needs)
📆 Permanent / Full Time
Join our People Services team supporting leading ABF businesses including Allied Bakeries, Allied Mills, Speedibake, Grocery Group and Wave 3 (AB Mauri, Cereform, ABFI and Wittington Investments).
This is a fast-paced, hands-on role where you’ll take ownership of HR and payroll administration across multiple businesses — solving problems, ensuring compliance, and delivering outstanding service every day.
We believe in rewarding our employees and providing a supportive work environment. Here’s what you’ll get:
✅ Competitive Benefits Package including:
💼 Competitive Salary
🌴 Generous Leave – 25 days holiday + bank holidays
🚗 Free Onsite Parking
💙 Employee Assistance Programme
🩺 Health Scheme
🌟 Holiday Purchase Scheme
💰 Pension Scheme
🛒 Onsite Shop
👓 Eyecare Vouchers
🚴 Cycle to Work Scheme
🏆 Loyal Service Awards
👥 Employee Referral Scheme
🍕 Discounts on groceries, holidays and more.
As a HR Assistant you will:
✔️ Manage HR and payroll requests from start to finish, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
✔️ Process pay changes, payments, and employee data in SuccessFactors in line with payroll deadlines.
✔️ Support the full employee lifecycle — onboarding to offboarding.
✔️ Issue contracts, letters, and statutory documentation.
✔️ Resolve payroll queries with confidence and precision.
✔️ Maintain accurate HR records and systems.
✔️ Produce reports and provide data insights to stakeholders.
✔️ Support annual pay reviews, benefits administration, pension auto-enrolment and policy updates.
✔️ Ensure processes meet GDPR, statutory and internal control standards.
✔️ Partner with HR, Payroll and Finance teams to deliver seamless service.
We're looking for someone with:
✔️ Proven HR or payroll administration experience in a fast-paced environment.
✔️ Strong payroll knowledge with excellent numerical skills.
✔️ Confident using HR systems (SuccessFactors experience desirable).
✔️ Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
✔️ Highly organised, detail-focused and able to manage multiple priorities.
✔️ Customer-focused with a proactive, problem-solving mindset.
Desirable:
✔️ Experience in HR Shared Services.
✔️ Understanding of KPIs, data protection and compliance controls.
If you thrive on accuracy, enjoy solving problems, and want to make an impact across multiple businesses, we’d love to hear from you!