What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work:
Make a difference behind the scenes – and get payroll right, every time. We’re looking for a Payroll Administrator to join the highly dedicated and dependable Payroll Team based at our Widnes head office. You will play a vital role in ensuring our colleagues across the charity are paid accurately, on time and in full compliance with payroll legislation. This is a role where attention to detail truly matters – your expertise will directly support positive colleague experiences, strong financial control and high‑quality services across the organisation. Working as part of a collaborative and supportive payroll team, you’ll help deliver a reliable, customer‑focused payroll service while building trusted relationships with colleagues, operational teams and corporate functions. This is a part time permanent role offering 30 hours a week over 5 days with attendance at our head office in Widnes required at least once a week so our ideal candidate will be based within an hours commute of Widnes. What is "The Deal" for you?
1. Pension: contributory pension scheme
2. Benefits: retail discounts, holiday discounts, cycle to work scheme and travel discounts through our benefits app
3. Best Lives Possible: You'll be working for an award winning charity who is passionate about ensuring our colleagues and the people we support lead the best lives bolder
4. Development: We'll work with you to develop your career or to learn and experience new things. We're passionate about developing our people!
5. Support: From our Employee Assistance Programme (available 24/7), financial support options, and wellbeing fund you'll have the support available to lead an easier (financial) life
Who you’ll be supporting & more about the role:
You’ll support the end‑to‑end payroll process, ensuring accuracy, compliance and excellent service delivery. In this varied role you will be:
6. Processing payroll accurately and to agreed deadlines, ensuring colleagues’ hours, pay and records are correct
7. Maintaining payroll records for starters, leavers, absences, statutory leave and statutory payments
8. Investigating and resolving payroll queries within agreed service levels, providing clear and confident guidance
9. Producing payroll reports and data to support TUPE activity, local authorities and DWP requests
10. Checking payroll amendments daily for accuracy and completeness
11. Reconciling payroll reports and supporting monthly payroll sign‑off
12. Processing payments to the correct cost centres to support accurate financial reporting
13. Supporting compliance with HMRC regulations, internal policies and audit requirements
14. Identifying and escalating payroll risks or anomalies and contributing to continuous improvement
You’ll also work closely with Finance, People Operations, Operational Leaders, Legal, IT and Quality teams to ensure payroll information is well managed and trusted.
Your values:
Our ideal candidate:
Essential
15. Experience working in a payroll or payroll administration environment, with responsibility for accurate, time‑sensitive processing
16. Sound understanding of end‑to‑end payroll processes, including starters, leavers, absences and statutory payments
17. Working knowledge of payroll legislation and HMRC requirements
18. Experience handling confidential employee data with discretion and integrity
19. Strong customer service skills, with the ability to explain payroll matters clearly and professionally
20. Understanding of payroll checking, reconciliations and audit trails
21. Excellent attention to detail and numerical confidence
22. Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple deadlines
Desirable
23. CIPP qualification
24. Experience using payroll systems such as Agresso / Unit 4 or similar
25. Confidence producing payroll and financial reports
Why join us?
You’ll be part of an organisation where your work genuinely matters. We value professionalism, collaboration and continuous improvement – and we recognise the essential role payroll plays in supporting our colleagues to do their best work.
If you’re looking for a payroll role where accuracy, service and purpose come together, we’d love to hear from you.
Please note, if you are interested in this role, we welcome your application as soon as possible! Depending on the volume of applications received, the vacancy may be closed before the expected advertising end date.