Payroll Administrator in Taunton

Location: Bridgwater, Somerset

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / 12 Months Fixed Term Contract

Keep people paid accurately. Support a project that helps create a safe and secure world.

At Cavendish Nuclear, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Payroll Administrator at Hinkley Point C Site, near Bridgwater, Somerset. Working within a growing payroll team supporting one of the UK's most significant infrastructure programmes, you'll play a vital role in ensuring thousands of employees are paid accurately and on time. This is an excellent opportunity to build your payroll and administration career in a fast-paced environment where your work directly contributes to the success of major engineering and defence-related projects.

The role:

• As a Payroll Administrator, you'll be a key member of a collaborative payroll team, helping to coordinate payroll activities for a large blue-collar workforce.
• You'll support payroll processing, maintain critical records, respond to employee queries and help ensure accurate payroll data is available for processing.
• This is a rewarding opportunity to develop valuable payroll, administration and stakeholder management skills while supporting an organisation that delivers critical projects for the UK.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Maintain and update payroll trackers, including new starters, leavers and employee changes.
• Collect, log and distribute payroll forms, including holiday, absence, lodge and pay query documentation.
• Support the payroll team with reports, metrics and payroll-related administrative activities.
• Assist with payroll inductions and first-day briefings for new starters.
• Respond to payroll queries and help colleagues resolve pay-related issues efficiently.

This role is 37 hours per week and is based at Hinkley Point C Site.

Essential experience of the Payroll Administrator:

• Recent experience working in a fast-paced administrative environment.
• Strong organisational skills with excellent attention to detail.
• Experience managing data and maintaining accurate records.
• Ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Experience within payroll administration or payroll support would be advantageous.

Qualifications for the Payroll Administrator:

• Payroll or business administration related qualifications are desirable.
• Experience working within payroll, finance or workforce administration.
• Security Clearance: The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

What we offer:

• Generous holiday allowance.
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance.
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+.
• Employee share scheme.
• Employee shopping savings portal.
• Payment of Professional Fees.
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave.
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Cavendish employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement.
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity.
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

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