What you’ll be doing
as a Payroll SME
1. Supporting the delivery of a major HR and payroll system upgrade, ensuring seamless transition and minimal business disruption.
2. Completing the in-house monthly internal payroll activities, adhering to internal and external compliance and controls.
3. Working with the wider payroll team to ensure accurate end-to-end payroll processing for employees.
4. Provide training to the Payroll HR Coordinators on payroll processes and the wider People Services Team when processes are created or changed.
5. Work with internal and external stakeholders to complete a change impact assessment before making improvements.
6. Support internal and external audits by providing required payroll data and documentation and answering queries.
7. Prioritising and completing incoming work, handling highly confidential information with integrity.
8. Ensuring policies and processes are up to date and working with Pay and Benefits Manager to ensure changes affecting payroll are enacted, communicated to the wider team and associated documentation updated.
Base location: Hybrid - Reading.
Working hours: 36 hours, Monday to Friday.
What you should bring to the role
To thrive in this role, the essential criteria you’ll need are:
9. Extensive experience working in a large UK Payroll team.
10. Experience in using payroll systems.
11. Excellent communication and customer service skills.
12. Attention to detail and accuracy.
Additional skills and experiences would be great to have/bring:
13. Certificate in Payroll Practice.
14. Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD) or equivalent professional qualification or HR knowledge.
15. BA in Accounting, Finance, Human Resources.
16. Experience of Success Factors.
What’s in it for you?
17. Competitive salary up to £45,000 per annum, depending on experience.
18. Annual Leave - 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays)
19. Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets.
20. Generous Pension Scheme through AON.
21. Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.