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Are you passionate about payroll, data accuracy, and delivering exceptional service?
We’re looking for a Payroll Advisor to combine technical payroll expertise with system administration responsibilities, supporting our outsourced payroll provision and flexible benefits. You’ll work closely with the Shared Services Manager and Head of People Systems to ensure data integrity, compliance, and continuous improvement across our people systems.
In this role, you’ll be the go-to expert for payroll and data queries, supporting colleagues and managers with iTrent and flexible benefits. You’ll prepare payroll data templates, manually calculate net pay, and carry out detailed monthly checks, including redundancy calculations. Your analytical skills will be key as you run and interpret reports, spot trends and anomalies, and ensure data accuracy. You’ll also manage car fleet and allowance administration, post-payroll tasks like pension and benefit reporting, and respond to external earnings enquiries. Additionally, you’ll support benefit windows such as Holiday Trading and Cycle to Work, maintain system integrity through regular data cleansing, and play a vital role in user acceptance testing and troubleshooting, escalating issues to system providers when needed.
What We’re Looking For
* Experience with HR/payroll systems (ideally iTrent).
* Strong numeracy, attention to detail, and spreadsheet skills.
* A confident communicator with excellent interpersonal skills.
* Organised, proactive, and committed to continuous improvement.
* Awareness of data protection and payroll legislation.
* A collaborative mindset and customer-focused approach.
Appointment to this role will be subject to satisfactory references and possession of a valid Right to Work document.
Discover Stonewater
Stonewater is a leading housing provider. We manage around 40,000 homes, serving 93,000 customers across our portfolio of affordable properties for general rent, shared ownership and sale, alongside specialist accommodation, with an ambitious house‑building programme.
Our mission is to provide quality homes and services for people whose needs are not met by the open market.
We’re looking for like‑minded people to join our team of over 900 talented colleagues who embody our values of being ethical, ambitious, passionate, agile and commercial, as well as people who want to make a difference and transform people’s lives.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and working towards accreditation for becoming a Disability Confident Leader, which allows us to record and report mental health and wellbeing in the workplace to better support our colleagues. We have also achieved accreditation for being an Advanced Employer for Investing in Ethnicity Maturity Matrix. We are committed to being a Menopause Friendly employer and working towards accreditation our Menopause Friendly accreditation.
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Stonewater reserve the right to bring the closing date forward should enough quality applications be received prior to the current closing date.
Seniority level
* Not Applicable
Employment type
* Full‑time
Job function
* Human Resources
Industries
* Non‑profit Organizations
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